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, we hear from Aaron, a former investment banking associate that worked in

equity capital markets at Barclays in New York. Learn how he managed to land a job in

investment banking coming from Arizona State and why he made a brave leap

after almost three years in the industry.

Here why he moved down to Miami and what he's up to now. Enjoy.

Aaron, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Absolutely. Happy to be here.

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

Sure.

So my name's Aaron Chavez.

I'm originally from Phoenix, Arizona.

Grew up out there, went to high school, college out there, studied finance,

ended up moving into banking right after graduating in 2016.

And now I live and work in Miami

after leaving banking after becoming an associate. Did you always know you were going to be

in finance or an investment banker? So it was a pretty quick fit. What I would say is it didn't

take me a long time. I went to Arizona State University. I went to Barrett, their honors college over there,

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