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help my dear monkeys..31 years old, MBA Ivy League in 2008, suffered from hiring shutdown and now structuring/trading derivs for a decent PWM firm, any chance of getting into institutional sales/trading now..or is it time up for me...
help my dear monkeys..31 years old, MBA Ivy League in 2008, suffered from hiring shutdown and now structuring/trading derivs for a decent PWM firm, any chance of getting into institutional sales/trading now..or is it time up for me...
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Good MBA, solid experience. Network your butt off. Have you looked at buyside?
PWM != solid experience, come on. No need to blow smoke. But yeah, network and network some more.
You got a Yale/Cornell MBA didn't you. Those doesn't count, Yale MBA isn't ranked too highly.
Jesus Trade4Life.......
It's true the Yale MBA is crap compared to say HBS/Wharton/GSB. 3% go into PE/VC out of the mba vs 12% for HBS for example and the MAXIMUM salary of a Yale MBA in 2009 was 135k...
My point is that just because it's an ivy MBA, doesn't mean it's a golden ticket to the nectar of the gods.
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