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 consulting Detroit shares his path from graduating into an engineering role

right before the financial crisis in 2007 to getting fired from his first job in under a year

and taking on debt to pivot and get an

MBA in the evening program. Learn some great unique tips for consulting case interviews,

how he learned the best practices as a peer coach, and what's in store for him next. Also, just a

quick aside, since this is episode number 50. Just wanted to take a second and thank all

the listeners for sticking with me. This podcast has been super fun and interesting for me,

and I hope it's giving you some value as well. I'm excited for the next 50 episodes on our way

to 100. Enjoy this one. Thanks, guys. Consulting Detroit,

Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Races podcast.

Yeah, happy to be here.

Awesome.

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

Yeah.

I started out studying industrial operations engineering, really leaning into that Six Sigma

analytics focused engineering.

You know, I thought it would be a real good practical foundation for myself.

And from there, I was more interested in moving into more management work and went back to the

Northern Michigan to get my MBA.

I was really interesting going into consulting. I kind of wanted a diverse set of experiences

for my career. And from there, I met one of the big four firms and really enjoyed

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