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.

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In this episode, Roger shares his story of coming from a family in construction to working

at a big four in the real estate consulting division. We learned what motivated him to pursue

accounting and finance in college, what he did when he realized he was

behind his peers with no sophomore internship, and how he made the transition from audit successfully.

Enjoy.

All right, Roger, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me, Patrick.

To be awesome if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Sure.

I grew up in Southern California and kind of bounced around between Orange County and Los Angeles.

Eventually, after high school, found my way back up to Los Angeles and attended the University

of Southern California with an emphasis really on accounting and real estate finance, ultimately

graduated, tried to graduate on time. So left there with a four-year degree in accounting and

went to go start work at a big four accounting firm as an auditor.

During the recruiting process, really had looked into and tried to get an opportunity with

a lot of the transaction real estate groups that at that time were just forming and kind

starting their businesses and their operating models.

At that time, and this was kind of pre the 2008,

nine crash, they were really looking for graduate students. So you needed some sort of real estate

master's or a real estate and finance master's degree. And I was coming out of undergrad and really

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