Banking is centered around people—people like you, your relatives, and your friends. Banking involves people dedicated to performing a variety of financial services for others to help make their lives happier, easier, and more productive. Banking is not the typical fortresslike granite structure in the country village or the soaring stainless steel and glass tower rising from the city street. Behind the façade you find people, thousands and thousands of men and women who are performing a tremendous variety of jobs, most of whom are proud of their responsibilities, eager to please the public they serve, and eager for promotions to more challenging and better paying positions.