How to ask for help from other users

When asking for advice, please keep your questions between 1-4 short sentences; never make your question more than 5 lines. We don't care about why you had bad grades, your medical condition, etc....

Good Example:

I'm a sophmore English major at a non-target with a 3.2 GPA. I have no finance experience, but I've found that I'm interested in investment banking. How do I get started?

Bad Example:

In high school I didn't really care about my grades, so I ended up at a non-target, but I really care about my grades now. I had a tuff time freshman year cuz I was partying, (2.5 GPA), but I finally got it up to a 3.2. I know that's bad, but I have a few more years to raise it even more. My major is English and I cant change majors because I'm already almost complete with it. I'm rally a good student, but I just need a chance to prove myself. Do you think if I study Mandarin Chinese, lern how to build models, and take accounting courses I will have a chance at goldmen seks?

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Whenever I send a PM to a BSD on here, I try to keep it to one line, and ask my question indirectly.

Example:
I want to work at the Goldman Sachs.

 

Effective communication. Be direct about what you want from them and don't wait for them to "help you".

Baby you're the perfect shape, baby you're the perfect weight. Treat me like my birthday, I want it this way and I want it that way. It makes a man feel good baby.
 

Number of legit help messages I've received this year: 6. Number of people I responded to and "helped" : 2.

Why? those two included maybe 1.5 sentences in their request.

I imagine the stats for "humans" are like 10 out 200.

Still not sure if I want to spend the next 30+ years grinding away in corporate finance and the WSO dream chase or look to have enough passive income to live simply and work minimally.
 

This is a good post.

The answer to your question is 1) network 2) get involved 3) beef up your resume 4) repeat -happypantsmcgee WSO is not your personal search function.
 

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