Investment Banking, Private Equity, Hedge Fund Career Advice
Let’s be honest – nobody who starts their career as an investment banker plans to stay for more than two to three years. Throughout your entire life in college, you have had all the freedom in the world to do what you want whenever you want, and working in investment banking throws all that out […]
Growing up in a small town far away from NYC, I had no idea how much you can make in a finance career. Even when I was in college, it wasn’t until I started working in the real work when I realized the amount of money you can make in finance. Working in finance right […]
Once you graduate from college and start living a life on your own, you begin to realize that getting to where you want to be is not that easy. Growing up, everything is pretty much laid out for you – wake up, go to school, do some extracurriculars, finish homework, rinse and repeat. As long […]
I was never into reading books growing up. My parents weren’t big readers so I never developed the habit of reading until after I graduated from college. Hate to blame my parents, but most don’t fully realize the impact your parent’s habits have on you throughout your childhood. Little did I know how much I […]
These past ten years have been one of the best economic times for the vast majority of Americans. $6 coffee drinks, $30 workout classes, $1000 iPhones, $3,000 per month rent, $5,000 vacations, I mean the list of extravagant things that I see young 20-year-olds spend on can go on and on. Unfortunately, after one of […]
Let’s be honest, nobody is going to read every word on your resume. Given the amount of job applications every firm receives, most hiring managers will spend at most 20 to 30 seconds reading a resume. Because of this, you need to make sure you don’t make stupid mistakes that will get you cut automatically. […]
Most people do not understand why they are never satisfied when they make more money. As their incomes grow with more and more experience, they are continuously stuck feeling as if what they make is just not enough. I know dozens of people who are single, have no real responsibilities outside work, make $500K+ per […]
When I went through college and even through my first year as an investment banker, I had absolutely no idea what the main differences were between all the various buyside roles. At first, I was a little surprised to hear that practically everyone wanted to move to the buyside. It was the promise land they […]
Most people do not know exactly what they want to do straight out of college, but overtime you start to realize what you are good at and what you are not. Either you are self-aware and know what your skills are or your friends / coworkers start to signal to you what you should be […]