Feeling so grateful to have an offer
incoming sa26 in mm cb and honestly so grateful to have an offer in this market. i go to a high semi-target but am not in the business program, in a finance club, or even have had any finance internships. so grateful that this firm is taking a chance on me.
i wanted to get any advice on how to best prepare. I’m an econ major so I just started taking accounting/corp finance classes this semester. I’ve taught myself basic three statement/dcf/lbo modeling but not much more. What can i do?
Corny ahh post
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Can't be happy for someone who's clearly motivated? Lame ahh person
NYU Stern prof Aswath Damodoran always puts his full recordings of his valuation class on YouTube. Recommend grinding those, taking notes, practicing bc he posts the slides as well. I went to Stern but didn’t get to take his class so I went thru all of those for recruiting. For general immersion in macro, financial news podcast in the morning on your commute/walk to class. I like Bloomberg, FactSet, WSJ, Financial Times, the Economist. Plus one for the Economist. Started reading the weekly edition cover to cover every week after one of my first MDs said it really helped him get up to speed. If you’re a reader, would also recommend some of the most common/famous finance books. May not help you exactly with modeling but your seniors will see you actually know and can talk to more high level concepts and have at least your own point of view. And to anybody who tries to say you’re corny bc you’re grateful to have a job, don’t listen to them. Some of us who didn’t have our entire life just handed to us and had to be scrappy/gritty to get here, and I for one am grateful to be here. Would respect the hell out of a kid who just graduated and had a hustler mindset and felt grateful for the opportunity than some jackass who complained about “getting fucked by his VPs every night at 2am.”
Great write up, thank you! I've been reading the FT everyday for about two years now since I've always been interested in general econ/business news. I'm taking a class that gives me access to the Bloomberg terminal right now, so I try to read a couple WSJ and Bloomberg articles each week. Will take you up on the recs for the Economist and Damodoran's classes (he's the one with the list of country equity risk premiums right?). Do you have any specific book recs? Thanks!
Depends on what you’re interested in honestly. Rosenbaum & Pearl is a bit more technical but a solid overview. Others are too big to fail (author has another coming out about 1929 crash), the big short, liar’s poker, the psychology of money, more money than god, firefighting. All of the financial news sites usually do a “best books of the year” so couldn’t go wrong with any of those. PBS Frontline also has some good documentaries, Money Power & Wall Street is a four part series that’s very well done.
Congrats!
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hey man we're gonna make the same base pay except i work half ur hours
yeah I know lol. I’m just messing with you. Congratulations!!
Congrats!
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