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.

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In this episode, member Greenspud graduated from undergrad right during the height of the Great

Recession in 2008. Learn how he was able to land an equity research position at an investment bank,

what he did when things went south, and how he was able to pivot to equity research position at an investment bank, what he did when things went south,

and how he was able to pivot to a new career as a software developer. He explains his stint

trading for himself and how he is able to make a quick 10,000, but that the psychology behind

training led him down a dangerous path. Some very important lessons about culture and timing in this episode.

Hope you guys enjoy.

All right, member Greenspud. Thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Yeah, my pleasure to be here.

Thanks for inviting me on.

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

Well, I am an Indiana University business school graduate.

And during the 2008 financial crisis, I worked for just under the year as an equity research

associate for an investment bank in the cell side.

And since then, I've worked my way over to being a software engineer, and nowadays, I make

web applications.

Very cool. So you were basically graduating at the worst possible time oh god it was terrible yeah he graduated from undergrad in

oh eight um so i assume that was you know may of 2000 or you know may or june of 2008 which

we were in the right in the heart of it.

Yep. So tell me about like what you were thinking coming out of there and how you even landed a

job in general at that investment bank. Can you tell me about that recruiting process and how you

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