when did you first become interested in banking?

Just curious, I only recently learned in my late junior year, and then became sure i wanted to do it in sr year.

  1. When you became interested
  2. When you KNEW you wanted to do banking/ER/trading
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1) summer between soph and junior year, while interning at financial law firm. decided being a lawyer was an awful idea 2) same as brown bateman... after learning about the hours and lack of predictability, switched to s&t

 

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