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, Inassurance shares what he did during his senior year when he realized his dream of going to medical school wasn't going to happen.

We learned how he graduated from Emory and went straight to a back office role

at a large financial services firm, but kept focused on his ultimate goal of breaking into

investment banking. As part of this path, he was able to successfully transition to the middle

office of a top bulge bracket investment bank and eventually break into Booth for his MBA.

Listen to the end for some wise advice.

Enjoy.

All right.

Insurance.

Thanks so much for joining the Wall Street toasis podcast.

Thanks for having Patrick. Super stoked to be here. It's a dream come true. Awesome. So yeah,

great if you could give the listeners a short summary of your bio. Sure. So I graduated in

2016 from Emory University. I was a pre-med at the time, but I was kind of looking to get into finance.

So that was right around the time I joined Wall Street Oasis, actually. I started in an operations

function at like a small finance company in the Midwest. It was pretty low-key operation. But,

you know, kind of after some strategizing and some planning and kind of

growing through my career, I was pretty fortunate to get into the middle office out of

a bulge bracket, which I'm doing right now before I go get my MBA at booth in the fall.

Nice. So thanks for that. So let's start all the way back at Emory and kind of your path

there. So when you were coming in as a freshman, were you like, gung-ho finance or what was the path for you? So I was pretty gung-ho pre-med and going to medical school. And, you know, I was always like, it was always what I knew to do. You know, definitely, you know, my family really encouraged it and I was kind of going

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