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, Jason Scott, former managing director at Deutsche, on the Derivatives Sales

Desk, talks with me about his 20 plus years in finance. With stints at Barclays and Credit Suisse,

Jason has an interesting perspective,

especially since he also worked in a variety of locations, including London, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

We learned what it was like back on Black Monday back in 1987 as a trader on the floor,

the transition from trader to sales, as well as how he thought about each successive jump in his career.

Listen as he gives one piece of critical career advice near the end.

Enjoy.

Jason, thanks very much, joining the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

All right. Thanks very much, Patrick. Nice to meet you.

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

You can just kind of hit the high level.

Okay, so I was a graduate of the Royal Military Academy in the UK.

And after I left my army service, which I did a short service commission with a reconnaissance regiment in the British Army, serving in the

British Army of the Rhine in Germany, after I left the army, I joined Barclays in London as a derivative

trainee on the floor of the options market. And I joined in 1986, just ahead of the 987 crash.

I had been through that. So I just graduated as a trader and in the

options market just before the crash so that was a really interesting

introduction to the world of of finance and the world of derivatives I worked for

Barclays until 1990 on floor,

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