Career Pivots Into Trading

Would be curious to hear how some of y'all ended up in S&T.

I started off my career doing M&A at a top 10 IB. I was there for 3 months before it drove me to the brink of losing my mind and I left to go into growth strategy and digital advertising at a ~100 person agency. Was there for 13 months before getting poached to another agency to help build out their growth team and was there for another 6 months before realizing I needed to get back into the game. 

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