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, WSO 1856 shares his path from an FLDP program and how he managed to lateral

into an investment banking analyst position.

We learned about his thought process during college, why he was too late,

and how he managed to break in through the side door after a year in the finance development

leadership program at a Fortune 500 company. Enjoy. All right, WSO 1856.

Thanks so much for joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

Yeah, no problem.

Happy to be on.

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

Yeah, sure.

So graduated from college in the last five years, studied, you know, typical

background, finance, accounting from a regionally recognized school and started a career

in a FLDP program for a large Fortune 500 company started there for a year and was really getting good

experience on the ground in terms of day-to-day corporate finance, learning things on the business

process side. And really, though, when I was in the program, I decided that I wanted to make a switch into banking and so

really the key pivotal moment for me was just kind of realizing that you know five 10 years down the

road I didn't really see myself being a finance manager you know plan controller or something

that nature I thought the idea of working on deals and being in the banking side kind of opened a few

more opportunities to really help me figure out what I was interested in.

And so what I did was really just network with a lot of alumni and just connections I had

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