Graduate banker: 'I take great comfort in my religion'  Joris
Luyendijk speaks to a young Muslim woman who changed her career
in law for one in banking  This monologue is part of a series in
which people across the financial sector speak about their
working lives  We're meeting for coffee one afternoon in
February for a chat about elitism and finance after she wrote in
to the blog about her "perspective of an 'outsider' trying to
break into the City and the barriers one faces". "In my final
year," she wrote, "I was applying for corporate law training
contracts and as an ethnic minority, from a working-class
background with dyslexia, the challenges were immense."  She is
a very cheerful woman in her early 20s of south Asian descent,
with a colourful headscarf. She talks much faster than I can
write while many of her frequent giggles seem to come with
slightly sarcastic undertones. She orders a mango and pineapple
juice.  "I really don't get why people on the left get so worked
up about Margaret Thatcher. I mea