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, member C. Lion shares a struggle to land a front office investment banking

position, even coming from an Ivy League school. We cover his struggle with HR to transition to the

Lev Finn team at a bulge bracket bank, why he eventually

decided to lateral to a smaller bank, moving to Austin, Texas from New York, New York for an exciting

private equity job, and why he's now able to hit pause and reassess his options. Stay tuned. See, Lyon, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me, Patrick.

Yeah, no worries.

If you could just give the listeners a quick summary of your background, that would be great place to start.

Sure. So originally, I'm from Washington, D.C., grew up there, went to high school

a couple blocks away from the United States Capitol building.

And really had no exposure to much of the financial world growing up,

but ended up in New York City for my undergrad.

I went to Columbia, where I was on the varsity rowing team, as well as, you know, involved in a number of extracurricular activities. And I studied business management and Spanish, which was kind of an interesting combination.

And, you know, being in New York City, being exposed to some of the older

alums on the team who were in the financial services industry, I started, you know,

getting interested in the world of business, also through, you know, my field of

study. And then had a, you know, a number of internships for my time in college.

And I spent a summer in Cairo at a think tank publishing research on Arab economies,

which was, you know, super interesting experience for me.

And then my junior summer I spent at BlackRock doing, you know,

acid management work for a portfolio manager.

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