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, Tim shares his path graduating with a master's in engineering and quickly

losing his job as the scandal at Enron unfolded.

We learned how he got back on his feet, how he leveraged the MBA to get a job in

investment banking on the West Coast during the great financial crisis in 2009, and eventually

how he had a 10-year run from Associate all the way up to director at Barclays. This is a long one,

but Tim was a really insightful guest, so I wanted to unpack what each stage was like for him.

Hope you enjoy.

All right, Tim, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Absolutely. Thanks for having me.

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

Sure, no problem. So the quick two minute graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in systems engineering,

went into the energy industry for a little while after that, but, you know, ultimately decided

that I wanted to get into something that was a little bit more finance-related, a little bit

more, you know, in-depth in terms of, you know, in terms of the work that I was doing and

the numbers around that and, you know, really getting to work with C-suite level executives.

So ultimately, after a couple, four or five years in the energy industry, went back to business school at the University of Michigan with the intent of getting into investment banking.

So graduated in 2009.

Tough year to come out.

Would you say 08 or 09 was worse for people? I would say 09 was probably worse because,

you know, it didn't really hit until the end of 08 because I was doing my summer internship

in 2008 and sort of

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