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 California Max shares his path from an emerging market to a portfolio

manager at a top bullish bracket investment bank. How much he's been paid in his career and the best

advice to his younger self, as well as what he

did when the first job out of his top MBA disappeared within three months and practical

career advice on when to take risks and when to take the safer path. Enjoy. California California Max, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thank you for having me.

Awesome.

So it would be great if you could give the listeners a short summary of your background.

Sure.

I grew up in the Merger Market.

I was always interested in the market.

From a young age, I started reading about investing.

And so through books and things like that in my teens, It's just a passion I developed.

And so went to college in in market markets, industrial engineering, I studied.

And after I was graduating and taking a role in real estate development for about a year,

I went into what I really wanted to do, which was asset management. And so I got a job in doing fixing of answer management. And I did that for a few years, for about three to four years. But eventually I had decided that the next step for me was going to be to get a business school education, particularly in the States.

As I saw that as a really good building block, not only for my career career but also just to develop as a person

getting new experiences and learn new things so um um came to the united states uh went to a 90 league

school for my MBA I was there for two years and it was an amazing experience and not only that

it got me a good job at an emerging bank in New York right after graduation.

Great.

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