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, Non-Target 5 shares his path from a non-target school in the southeast

to landing at a top investment bank as an associate.

Learn how even at a part-time MBA program with minimal IB placement, he beat out kids from Wharton,

Foucaux, and Darden. Listen to hear how his path of promotions in the corporate role for seven

years played a large role and some advice on what he would have done differently. Enjoy.

Okay, non-target five. Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks for having me. Glad to be here.

I miss it because I haven't been doing, I haven't done one of these in a while and getting back to it now. So thank you for taking the time to chat with me.

Absolutely. So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio just to get

started.

Sure.

So I went to a small private school for undergrad in the southeast.

I went there for track and wasn't really concerned or concerned about grades or what I was

going to do afterwards.

So I changed my major five times, really lacked a lot of focus.

I just assumed that everything would work out, which was obviously not the case.

But shortly after, I had a very brief stint in real estate, did not like that and spent half

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