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, the stranger explains why he has always been in a rush. From finishing

college in just 20 months to landing a key internship before his MSF in order to position himself

to break into investment banking,

to prepping for buy-side interviews. He was always moving fast until the unexpected happened.

Some great advice in this podcast on positioning yourself for your next career jump and life

in general. Enjoy. The Stranger.

Thanks for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

So it would be great if you could just give us a brief overview of your background.

Sure. So I did my undergraduate work at a top 50 public school in the southeast. At the time,

I thought I was going to law school, and so took a year off to try and do that and wound up

deciding finance was my stick. So did an MSF at a semi-target, after which I was able to

a middle market investment banking firm.

After spending about a year and nine months there, I broke in to a large hedge fund

of fund based in New York.

And then after just under two years there, decided I wanted to get a little closer to the

action and broke into BC specifically at a healthcare focused fund.

Very cool.

Okay, so let's go back to undergrad.

You said you wanted to go to law school, so you took some time off. What was the thinking there? Yeah, I sort of just... Are you crazy? Are you crazy? Going to law school? I'm not just kidding. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no. I was always one of those kids, I guess, that was argumentative, and so for a long time was just told, sort of. You have to be a lawyer. Go be a lawyer. Go be a lawyer. Yeah. And then so, you know, and I've always been a little impatient. So I decided I would get done with my undergrad real quickly. So I graduated in 20 months from start to finish. Oh my gosh. That's intense. And the game plan was, you know, going to study for the LSAT.

And I had taken an internship at the law school doing like stuff for one of the antitrust guys there

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