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, Dick shares his winding path from George Washington University to investment banking.

We learned why he took a few years off in the middle of college,

why it took him another three years after graduation to get into investment

banking, and why he recently made the jump to leave a lucrative vice president position to jump

into the world of Hollywood. Enjoy.

All right, Dick, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, yeah, thanks for having me on. It's awesome.

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

Yeah, short.

It's a tall order.

As short as you can make it.

Yeah.

Well, it's funny.

So I've been reading WSO for 10 years now, probably actually a little bit more.

I started an undergrad graduated in 2010 from George Washington University, which at that time, and I still think

it's pretty much not really a target school.

I figured out I wanted to do banking late in the game, like junior year, because that's

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