Just got through my 1st week as "Head Trader". I work for a large retail mortgage lender. After being on the sales/origination side for 10 yrs, I made the switch to our 2ndary markets team. Main role is to set up hedge positions for our pipeline (currently at 3.5B). Then via phone/trade web, I buy/sell MBS forwards.
I will be finishing up my MBA at Ross (evening program) this fall. My goal was to pursue a S&T role after I graduate. But this position opened up, i interviewed, and they offered me the position.
Coolest part of the job so far is just talking to traders from our counter parties every day...when things are slow, I can call any one of them and just shoot the shit for a few.
Anyhow just wanted to share, as this forum has helped tremendously over the last couple years in gaining a much better understanding to everything that is relevant in the great world of IB/S&T.
I still have aspirations for "Wall Street" and am hoping that the experience that I gain and relationships I develop will help me to that end.
Great work, congrats and keep it up.
Congrats dude!
Congrats man. You are an inspiration to the older monkeys out there (me included)
Nice work, bro. Great to hear.
you got yourself a cool set up bro. congrats
Congrats
Thanks all. I was definitely fortunate that the position opened up when it did. I will still recruit this fall (my manager knows this) but it will definitely be a lot less stressful knowing that I can stay if I choose to. And the experience that I gain over the next 8 mos should definitely give me a leg up on landing interviews and ultimately offers. I thought that I would be too old to get into S&T type of a role (I'm 35)...but I figure I still have a lot of years left in me! I'm not an old fart just yet!
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