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, member Over-Lebred Monkey shares his path from being in the Navy to eventually

breaking into real estate investment banking. How he was able to land multiple internships throughout

undergrad, what hurt him in the interview process,

and how much he's making now. Enjoy.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a quick overview of Edward Leverd-Monkey, thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Thanks for having me, Patrick.

So it would be great if you could just give the listeners a quick overview of your background

and kind of what you're up to now.

Sure.

So after high school, I joined the Navy.

I was an electronic warfare technician for the aircrafts,

and I did that for four years, and got out, started working

in pharmaceuticals while I attended undergrad, and was fortunate enough to score a private equity

internship my sophomore year, and since then did four more finance-related internships,

and just recently started my full-time position in real estate investment

banking.

Great.

And can you tell me, so are you, having gone to the Navy, are you a little bit older

for a typical undergrad?

Yes, I would definitely say so.

I went to a semi-target traditional school down here in Texas, and, you know, I was probably four to five years older than most

of the people in my class and four to five years older than your typical analyst coming out

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