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, Pat takes us through his long and winding career as a quant and systems architect.

From almost 20 years at the Livermore Research Lab to reinventing himself and joining D.E.

Sean 2006, we learn about how being curious and having

a unique skill set can earn you outsized pay packages. Find out why he was heavily recruited to jump

trading and why his jump to Citadel was a mistake and how everything panned out now that he is

retired.

Hey, Pat, welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Happy to be here.

This will be fun.

I've been on the site for a long time, was active for a while and sort of in the background,

but decided to come back in with my screw it, I'm retiring note, and here we are.

Has it been over a decade since you've been on?

I think so, yeah.

That was way back out.

That was like seven jobs ago, so it must be a while.

Yeah, so Pat's been a longtime member of the community.

If you're on video, you'd be able to see we have matching T-shirts to prove it.

We have the OG WSO shirts.

So really old school.

I actually think there might even be an older version than this, but this is a pretty old version.

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