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, Boutique Bananas shares his path from graduating near the top of his class at

Wharton, why he ended up at Mollis for two years and why he decided to travel for a year after

his analyst stint. Learn how he got back into investment banking only to be laid off soon after and

how he's approaching his next search. Enjoy.

All right, boutique bananas. Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks for having me.

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

Sure. So I grew up in New Jersey.

What I think is a typical suburb of America, I went to college.

I went to a local high school. For college. I wanted to study business. So I was

fortunate enough to get into Wharton. There, I kind of learned about investment banking in that

whole world. I'd kind of heard about it just in pop culture and news and like CNBC and stuff.

So I started pursuing internships in the field. I worked at a family office and a hedge fund while in college.

And then eventually I was kind of told the best thing to do is go down the like

investment banking analyst training program.

So I started recruiting.

I learned about like different things like restructuring that I never knew about before.

Eventually I worked intern at Hulahan in the restructuring group for a summer.

Then full time, I moved over to Mollis.

I had a good time there.

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