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, Justin shares his impressive path with us.

We cover how he was able to break into Goldman Sachs on the high-yield trading desk directly

out of a non-target university, what his internships were like, how he was able to build relationships,

and what has changed now that he has moved to the by-side at Oak Tree. Listen to hear how his work ethic,

interpersonal skills, and attitude made all the difference. Enjoy. Justin, thanks so much for joining the Wall Streetosis podcast.

No problem.

Thank you for having me.

Appreciate it.

So it'd be great if you could give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Yeah, absolutely.

So I'm originally from New Jersey, grew up a Jets fan and a Yankees fan. I'm like your hat over there.

And we may have some difficulty on this podcast. But I grew up in Jersey and then when it came time for college, I'm going down to Virginia to James Madison University.

And when I was down there, I kind of got involved in their student investment fund, which really opened my eyes up to the world of finance

and got me to kind of fall in love with investing. So from there, I spent one summer working in wealth

management as an intern. Then I spent two summers at Goldman Sachs working on their trading floor

in sales and trading rotating between kind of different groups and different desks. And then I

ultimately got hired full time to work for Goldman coming out of school.

And I worked in their leverage for name in sales business, which is basically I focus on high

yield and distressed debt sales.

My job kind of while I was there is to really focus and cover the largest asset managers

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