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, W.S. underscore owned, for all you gamers out there, shares his background in classical

music and performance and how prepared him for some of the most competitive jobs in finance.

In part one of two, we learned about the accident that changed everything and the big break

he got right after the great financial crisis to land his first job in finance in the back

office.

Listen to hear how he turned that opportunity into his first of many transitions to a front

office role to become a leverage finance originations analyst at a regional firm, eventually the same role at a bulge bracket bank,

and really what that meant for his career. Enjoy.

Okay, WS-owned. Welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks, Patrick. Thanks for having me. So it'd be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary bio.

Yeah, sure. So I had a pretty unconventional background and sort of entrance into finance.

I started out as a musician., was trained at a conservatory.

For most of my life, I was a musician and, you know, during the greater financial crisis,

I unfortunately had first moved to New York City and I was, you know, concertizing for me and touring.

I had broken my hand that year in about 2009. And so I,

you know, obviously in 2009 was the best time to break into finance, you know, for a person with

no background in internships or financial experience. And so that was a very interesting transition for me.

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