Looking for a Mentor...
Hello,and Happy New Year to the WSO community. I'm looking to find someone who is successful in the financial industry (Asset Management) & I'm also looking for a mentor. A little bit about myself, I hold a BS from a catholic institutional - undergrad, (graduated summa cum laude) - MBA, JD, L.L.M degrees from top target schools (think HYPS). I'm just looking for a mentor for career advice and help. I wish to break into the asset management industry and I would like to know if the WSO community could lead me in the direction of finding someone to teach me a thing or two about the Asset Management industry. I tried doing the online application (from firms like BlackRock, & etc) but got no responses. I tried to contact alumni from my alma mater (undergrad) but that road let to no where. I eventually was denied access to my school alum network (career link) due to spamming alumni with my informational letters & with the spring semester approaching I'm SOL. (I also missed OCR)
Last part of this made me lol. I think you're going to have to work on your social savvy first.
Expecting a very cliche'd networking email.
heads up, from your description itself I think you'd be hard press to find a person willing to mentor you, not impossible though. might want to take @"kidflash" 's advice seriously
lolololololol
Yo dick, want to follow up with the guy? You could do with a series mentee.
On a ''series'' not now, where do these people come out from?
Series Inquiries lol...
Jesus Christ
Hold up, you're saying you already have an MBA, JD and LLM from HYPS?
Recommend you also complete an MD, a PsyD and then use on campus recruiting after your PhD for networking (all must also be from HYPS)
@Redacted, I hope you're being sarcastic.
Post of the year?
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Hello,and Happy New Year to the WSO community. I'm looking to find someone who is successful in the financial industry (Asset Management) & I'm also looking for a mentor. A little bit about myself, I hold a BS from a catholic institutional - undergrad, (graduated summa cum laude) - MBA, JD, L.L.M degrees from top target schools (think HYPS). I'm just looking for a mentor for career advice and help. I wish to break into the asset management industry and I would like to know if the WSO community could lead me in the direction of finding someone to teach me a thing or two about the Asset Management industry. I tried doing the online application (from firms like BlackRock, & etc) but got no responses. I tried to contact alumni from my alma mater (undergrad) but that road let to no where. I eventually was denied access to my school alum network (career link) due to spamming alumni with my informational letters & with the spring semester approaching I'm SOL. (I also missed OCR)
Please- Serious inquires -no trolls please.
*please serious inquiries
It's hard to find a mentor like this, OP. Anybody will want to see that you've worked your ass off trying to make yourself competent before taking you on as a mentee. I'm not in a position to be a mentor cuz I'm BO. but I've tried to do what you're doing now and have had bad results. Start working on making yourself competent. A mentor will show up when you begin.
I just hope your all laughing in a good way. I'm glad I made you guys laugh. I was just being myself. @"kidflash" & @zeroblued, I'm usually outgoing when you get to know me but I'm quiet and keep to myself most of the time.
you being outgoing isn't the issue. we're saying that you need to work on being not socially retarded. you're the first person i've EVER heard of being banned from OCR for spamming alumni. I've cold emailed hundreds of alums in the last 3 years and almost all of my interviews were through networking. The disparity between our results indicates you fucked up somewhere, big. The fact that your initial post doesn't show any indication that you understand this makes me worry about whether you're aspergy as hell.
@kidflash Just to correct you I was not banned from OCR but missed the deadline to apply. What I was banned from was Career link for spamming alumni multiple times over. (Career link -Is a website used to connect current students and alumni to working professionals in their chosen field.) I'm not socially awkward or socially retarded. I know I may have messed up big time somewhere down the line. I was hoping to get a new fresh start for the new year.
I call troll..he's still going
You might want to reconsider saying you "are not socially awkward/retarded" given this thread and your original post.
Why are you throwing monkey shit at me. When I said "I tried to contact alumni from my alma mater (undergrad) but that road let to no where." What I meant to say is that I was just given advice and had no job or interview leads prospects from alumni.
What do you think mentoring is? It is advice and nothing more. Expecting an interview or even a job when you're not a good match is presumptuous and disrespectful.
Btw, presumptuous and disrespectful both match your overall tone in this thread. I encourage you to use writing tools or even take a writing class, because your written communication skills are deplorable, particularly so given your alleged education. (To start, every single sentence has a grammatical error in it.)
You have an MBA/JD/LLM from HYPS. Start by networking there. Will likely be more effective than WSO or a small undergrad institution.
@"Ipso facto" Thanks for the advice but I'm already networking through my alma mater. I know that networking is a numbers game. I'm just trying to reach out to as many people as possible and expand my network.
I quote myself, when I said "I tried doing the online application (from firms like BlackRock, & etc) but got no responses." What I mean by this is that -I know that online applications are a hit or a miss without knowing anyone from the inside.
Send me your resume.
I will mentor you. I have a few enemies...errrr contacts in AM who you can reach out to.
this shit is funny
@justin88 Sheesh, if you have nothing nice to say. Stop drinking the hatorade & hating on my thread.
I can mentor you, I have mentored Tiger Woods, Dave Chapelle, Charlie Sheen, Bud Fox, & Dr. Drew. Just please paypal me for your first month of mentoring fees, $25,000.32 to [email protected]
For what it's worth I used jbone24 for my mentoring needs and he was simply excellent, really solid mentor. Although in full disclosure he was kind enough to give me a WSO discount of 25% so I only paid $18,750.24, but in all honesty it was worth every thousand I spent.
You've been pretty funny lately. Stop it.
don't forget yeezy
Something is seriously wrong with you OP. how the fuk do you end up getting banned from your alumni contact list. For someone (or multiple people) to report you and complain, you must be an annoying sack of sht.
Didnt you get what you wanted? You wanted mentorship, you got advice. Mentorship is not a job offer you retard.
We can become you life coach. You need to get it together and ask specific questions because you're doing way to much wrong at the moment. And your denial of what's going on is exactly part of the problem.
Meant to write "we can't be you life coach"
So you have a BA, MBA, JD & LLM. What degree are you working on now?
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