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, Maxwell Paiara, former leveraged Finn analyst at J.P. Morgan, talks about how he

broke into JP initially as a credit analyst coming out of Fordham. He also covers how he managed to transition to the front office in Lev Finn

and why he left to pursue his dream of playing tennis professionally.

Enjoy.

All right, Max, thanks for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Yeah, happy to be here.

So it'd be great if you could just give the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Sure.

I graduated from Fordham University back in 2015.

Worked in credit risks.

My first two years of JPMorgan transitioned into leverage finance in the general

industries group thereafter.

And then this past February, March, I recently quit my job to pursue professional

tennis as a career.

Professional tennis, awesome. So we'll get to that. Let's go all the way back for starting kind of when you were. The beginning. Yeah. Well, not the beginning, the beginning. Let's start back at Fordham. So you're there. You're in the city. You're not actually a business major, though. You're a finance major with a minor.

Nice idea, yeah.

And you did really well there.

So was it always like was finance and Wall Street always kind of on the picture?

No, to put it quite bluntly.

You know, to be quite honest, for me, I had a background in tennis. I went to online high school. I traveled, you know, Europe and South America playing junior tournaments. So most of my high school experience was tennis focused. And then when I went to college, it was sort of a shell shock of, okay, what now? Because my plan had always been tennis first and then school, but this sort of threw a wrenching

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