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 Wall Street 18 had no clue what investment banking even was when he graduated

from his non-target MBA program in 2010. Learn how he was able to pivot into the Big Four Transaction Advisory Services

Group and then lateral to a middle market investment bank. What each transition was like and why

he actually craved more hours. Enjoy. All right, Wall Street 18. Thank you so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Hey, thanks, Patrick. It's a pleasure to be on, and I appreciate you taking that time to speak with me.

Great. So if you could just give the listeners a short or brief summary of your background and

then we'll kind of get into it. Sure. I would say over the past about 10 years, I've been

working in the financial services industry, attended a university in the New York metro area.

I actually had a little bit more of a unique background or career path.

Went right back and got my MBA subsequently after completing the four-year bachelor's program.

And after that, it was a little bit tough trying to find a job in the real world so I

landed actually as a government bank examiner for a few years then moved over to one of the

big four firms for a short stint.

Subsequently, then after that, kind of got my break into the banking world

and worked at two different banks for almost about four and a half years

before moving to the by-side role that I'm currently in.

Great. Thank you for that summary. So let's go all the way back to, well, not all the way back,

but all the way back to undergrad and kind of go through the thought process. So when you were,

when you were, what, a sophomore, junior, what was the thought process of hey i'm going to get my

NBA right after this when did that decision happen and kind of who led you down that road because

it sounds like when you graduated it wasn't easy it wasn't easy sledding like what absolutely

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