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 part two, we pick up from part one and learn how WS is able to make an internal transition

at his bulge bracket bank to get even closer to the actual trading, eventually becoming

vice president on the high-yield credit desk

before another sudden turn of events would leave him out of the job for six months.

Find out how he ended up at an even better bulge bracket after a half-year hiatus, but this

time in a research capacity and why he left after less than two years to finally join a hedge

fund putting his ideas to work. Enjoy.

So, you know, in my lunch breaks, I go down, I let myself onto the trading floor.

And I basically like cornered him and asked him, hey, look, I'm really interested in the group.

Can you tell me more about it?

Basically went down, got said no a couple of times.

There were a couple times where he actually set me down, talked to me for five, ten minutes.

I had to go back.

But I kept this up for the better part of call it six months, right?

And I was at squeaky wheel that went in.

I sent emails.

I followed up with like, before we even go there,

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