Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, Joshua shares his path from Princeton to investment banking at Credit Suisse.

Learn why it wasn't a great fit for him, his surprising transition out, the risks and benefits of not

having a clear direction. Now he landed at an exciting small

business experiencing rapid growth. I really enjoyed this chat because there was a lot of honest

reflection about burnout, private equity recruiting, trying to find your way and the importance

of exploration and faith in your abilities to find interesting opportunities, many which you'd never

know about unless you were actively looking.

So enjoy.

All right, Joshua, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street of a podcast.

Thanks for having me. Happy to be here.

Said it'd be great if you could

just give the listeners a quick summary of your bio. Sure. So I went to Princeton University

where I majored in politics and international relations. When it became pretty clear that I wasn't

going to be a diplomat. I started looking towards the finance

world, did an investment banking internship at Credit Suisse in the industrials group, enjoyed my summer,

went back full time, and did the beginning of the analyst program there, was there for about

a year and a half, dip my toes in the water when it came to

byside recruiting and realized that it wasn't right for me at the time, and neither was staying at

Credit Suisse. So I left and took a finance and operations job at a music tech, ad tech business in New York City called F sharp. So it was

there for a little while running everything from, you know, accounts payable, accounts receivable,

to benefits to HR, before leaving there for an opportunity at concertive, which was actually

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