How to find a smaller shop/boiler room?

Before you MS and call me a troll please let me explain. I have a passion for cold calling and working in the "bro" environment. My friend worked at a PWM shop that he admitted was a pretty unethical place in terms of sale tactics and all. Unethical or not I just want to find one to make some decent money that will get me by and enjoy the place. You all say I should do what I like and I enjoy this kind of work with these type of hustlers with cutthroat attitudes so don't give me the moral speech.

I don't fit into the high-finance culture of Ivy grads, I have a perfect GPA but I know how to cheat the system and when it comes to something like fucking exams but when it come to standardized tests I'm fcked, so I'm not naturally smart like the analysts at Goldman.

I have only legit PWM firms nearby and I can't really find a smaller shop. The brand name PWM firms are just full of people I would hate, all weird stiffs who were tryhards in college and got nothing out of their $70k degree except for debt and a $40k salary.

I'm a hustler. I've done some nice things on the side to make me some good dough. A sheepskin doesn't make me money, I do it myself.

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Instead of being a pesty criminal, why dont you get a damn masters degree and become a quant. All you people do is look for shortcuts in life, whats the point of enjoying money if its just given to you.

  • Mike Gucci Word up bee
 

If you seriously think quants at the HFT desks aren't committing a crime/not taking shortcuts then you got another thing comin. They're just as bad as high pressure salesmen buddy.

Why the fuck would I want a Masters? I feel bad for people in this country. They drop hundreds of thousands of dollars on "extras" like MBAs and MSF because they feel like it makes them extra special. What a joke.

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Do enterprise sales. When I worked in consulting one of our clients was this insurance brokerage and some of these brokers made a fuckton of money for apparently not doing much at all. And get this, our job was to create a value proposition for the team so that clients can continue to justify paying them so much money...

 

Dude, I work in a small PWM firm and trust me you DO NOT want to work for one. I myself am a hustler, I worked through high school, worked 50-60 hour weeks through college and I finally just got hired by this place. It's honestly just a bunch of idiots pitching stocks that are not certain to rise in the market. As a trainee, you literally just sit there 12 hours a day connecting leads to brokers. It's the shittiest among shittiest of jobs. I myself am not a genius and you remind me a lot of what I did in school. Your best bet is to just break into PWM in a BB, in that case you can still enjoy the grind side to it but also fall back on a salary if it does not work out for you.

 

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