Welcome to the WSO weekly wrap-up, where I talk with my team about the five most

trending discussions in the Wall Street Oasis community. Enjoy. All right, welcome to another

episode of the weekly wrap-up. It is March 2nd. We are struggling today. We got some sick people

and the bills out. We're going to try to have it done with just the two of us today. We'll see how we do.

I can talk a lot, so I think we'll be okay. All right, Matt, go ahead and kick it off. Let's see what

the three top topics are this week.

Cool, yeah, definitely short and roster, but I think we got this here, Pat.

So first question, I know I've definitely given this some thought.

Earlier on in my career, so we'd love to kind of get your insights on this, but someone dropped

us in the forums.

How much of a career gap is too much and how can

you justify that to recruiters? Any thoughts on that specifically? I know there's a common trend

specifically with people coming into the industry. A lot of people I don't want to take, you know,

a couple weeks off travel year before kind of jumping into IB or into the PE space.

My worry was always, you know, if you're taking too much time off the bat coming off of school,

does raise some red flags.

But what are your thoughts on that or wrong terms of taking a gap before we're jumping in?

I think you should try to take a gap.

I think a couple weeks is nothing.

I think even a couple months isn't a big deal where you start getting into, it gets a little bit more like could potentially raise eyebrows as like over three months, three to six months.

You get past six months.

It starts really, you better have been doing something.

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