Knowing the answer isn’t as important as knowing how to get the answer.
A formal degree might be a necessity for most entry-level jobs on Wall Street... but the real Wall Street education comes from experience.
candidate for Wall Street mediocrity . I had to figure it out as I went along. And one of the many things I didn’t know when I first walked through the revolving doors of Morgan Stanley was that my education was just getting started. Right out of the gate, I was out-connected, out-degreed, and out-experienced. My peers came from the Ivy Leagues and had multiple internships. I graduated from Ohio
As a young, naïve man, I moved to New York City in a U-Haul truck with America’s Moving Adventure – Maine! written on the side. It was 1994, and I was wearing L.L. Bean boots and a flannel shirt when I arrived in the City. Shortly thereafter, I accidentally got a job on Wall Street. As a B student with a journalism degree and a 970 SAT score, I was an unlikely candidate for Wall Street success. I was an unlikely
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