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, Dan shares his unlikely path as a history major at a complete non-target college

in the Midwest. We learned how he was unemployed when he first graduated, how his first

job was in the back office, how he managed to

break into a business analyst role at a respected boutique investment bank, and how he managed

the delicate conversations to transition to a front office IB role at that same bank. Listen to how

he navigated the private equity recruiting process and how one person made a dramatic shift in his thought

process and trajectory. Enjoy.

All right, Dan, welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks for having me, Patrick.

So it would be...

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

Yeah, absolutely.

So, you know, I'll try to give a quick high level.

I grew up in New York State.

Kind of was a really strong student of history in high school. You know, I did kind of well on

math, was never really, never really, you know, one of my main focuses. I would say I really liked

history a lot more. So when I went to college, I kind of wanted to, you know, focus on his. I didn't

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