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, Rick shares his path from a complete non-target school in the Midwest

to breaking into a top MSF in Europe.

Learn what he did that allowed him to break into a bulk of bracket bank in London before his

master's in finance and why he turned down offers from a private equity mega fund.

What he did when bridges were burned with some recruiters and how he ended up at a long,

short hedge fund. Enjoy. Rick, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Thanks for having me.

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

Yeah, for sure.

So I'm originally from Germany, but went to a non-target in the U.S. graduated

back in 2010, then went for a massive science program in continental Europe, where I basically

went through the traditional program of applying for internships, went for some analyst position

at, you know, bank like JPM, GSM,

and then moved from there to a long short equity hedge fund in continental Europe and have been

on by-side ever since.

So you've been on the by-side.

So you went, you know, banking to buy-side, which is pretty traditional.

But what was interesting is you

started out in the U.S. So tell me a little bit why were you in the U.S. at a non-target randomly.

You said you're from Germany? That's correct. I'm from Germany. So what did you move to the

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