Accidentally misspelled Lazard as Lizerd on my cover letter please help!

It was around 11:00 at night when I was mass cold emailing EBs and I was really tired, and I forgot to specifically review the cover letter for Lazard and misspelled it as Lizerd because I was way out of it, am I screwed?

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Apparently, if spell out "Lizard" you're then inducted into a club that controls all the worlds banks, it's very secret.

The analysis is: Lizard = animal who sticks tounge out a lot = dick fuld did that at congressional hearing a lot = billionaire CEO = sticking out tounge is a way to be abducted into the club of Freemasons.

Don't take my word for it.

 

DMyers....pump the breaks. You made a stupid ass rookie mistake. Even rookies wouldnt have done that. What is below rookie? Sorry, I digress.

You need to realize, that there are plenty of finance gigs out there. I remember my college days, pumping out emails and calling every alumni in the books...thinking it was an insurmountable task. The only thing you can really control is....your actions! So rather than dwelling on your rookie ass mistake, start networking to develop real connections with people (your existing strategy is weak sauce too) and apply yourself academically and in your spare time to the field you want to work in. More importantly, I'd also cruise into the bathroom, and take a look in the mirror and decide if you really want to 'break-in'...BC that is a truly unacceptable mistake that 99.999% of your competition is not making because they actually care. Being tired is a sad-ass excuse - and the only thing that is inexcusable about your weak ass thread. Just admit you didn't care that much, and decide if you actually 'care' going forward.

Good luck man!

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