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, John shares his path from a non-target university to his current job in real

estate private equity in South Florida. Learn how he was able to land his first internship

in M&A, how he managed to transition an internship role

into a full-time offer for a family office post-graduation, and what he did when he was fired

three months later. Listen to hear what saved John countless times when his career could have

taken a very different turn for the worse. Enjoy. All right, John, welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having you, Patrick.

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

Yeah, sure.

So originally from Connecticut, went to school down in South Florida, a school called Lynn University.

It first started out not really having any clue of finance or anything. It's not a finance school.

But luckily, I had a couple friends that were interested in business and all that. And we slowly started to progress into that, started an

investment club together, turned it into an investment fund, competed in some finance competitions.

And eventually, you know, kind of had a mentor who hired me at a family office, you know,

who kind of told me what investment banking was.

So it wasn't until I had really graduated that I knew what really the world of finance

looked like.

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