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, member Yolo Goose 96 shares his path from being unemployed when he first

graduated in 2011 to working as a paralegal for $43,000 per year, to now making well over $200,000 as an associate

director had a large private equity fund in a business development function. Learn how he was able

to make an internal pivot from compliance to business development, had a large asset manager,

what was the key inflection point in his career, now how he was ready to take advantage when the

opportunity presented itself. Enjoy. Josh, thanks so much for joining the Wall Street Oasis

podcast.

Thank you, Patrick.

It's an honor and privilege to be here.

Great.

So it'd be awesome if you could just give the listeners a short summary.

Sure.

So I graduated 2011 from the University of Michigan.

I was an economics major, graduated three, four, didn't really have job offers.

You know, the job market was totally different post-crisis.

Eventually got a job as a paralegal for about a year thinking I wanted to do law school,

which several of my friends did.

Ended up on the by side in a compliance role, analyst level, you know,

was in the midst of a ton of regulatory reform.

Spent a couple of years doing that and then landed in a business development role within my same company.

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