More on the informational interview side of networking, I caught wind of IB and learned the basics about breaking in from a cougar I dated for a few months who had worked at a BB.

On the other side of the table, I once grabbed coffee with a student who pitched me on investing in his HF in 20-30 years, and gave me stock picking advice.

Thanks, let me know if you ever need an introduction in the industry.
 

I once gave advice to a McKinsey partner on how to start up. Solid fellow, that one. I also told him shit I heard about McKinsey, and asked him if it's true.

While I was having a networking chat with this guy from an EB, my phone began ringing loud, in a fine dining restaurant, playing RATM's "Pistol Grip Pump" Took me some fumbling to get to the damn thing.

GoldenCinderblock: "I keep spending all my money on exotic fish so my armor sucks. Is it possible to romance multiple females? I got with the blue chick so far but I am also interested in the electronic chick and the face mask chick."
 

I wanted to join the board of a non-profit, so looked up current board members to see if I could connect with any of them. Looked up someone with a pretty basic name followed by the name of the city I live in, and found a few results. Turns out she is around my age, should be good for getting on the board. Send her an email wanting to meet up and talk about the organization.

We meet for coffee on Halloween in the morning, introduce ourselves and talk a little about our jobs. Then I ask her about the organization and turns out she thought the non-profit I was asking about was a different group (acronyms were similar). The individual on the board with her same name was a different person. I played it off pretty well and pretended to be interested in the group she had been involved with. She then invited me to a Halloween party that night and ended up making friends with her friend group. I also later got on the non-profit board, though no thanks to her.

 

Non-profits are gay. For-profit for life. Deus Vult. Capitalism Vult.

GoldenCinderblock: "I keep spending all my money on exotic fish so my armor sucks. Is it possible to romance multiple females? I got with the blue chick so far but I am also interested in the electronic chick and the face mask chick."
 

I was asked to meet and associate from a top EB that I had been speaking with for a few months for golf. We played at his country club - only the front 9. He was so bad but talked a huge game. After he double parred the first 3 holes I honestly felt bad and recommended we not keep score. It was kinda awkward. The waitress also spilled water on me during lunch. Strange day. Regardless he still got me an interview but didn't seem to like my jokes about his golf game.

 

I went to a networking session with the tag still on my suit once. Got back and my roommate pointed out that I never removed the tag. Rookie move

Recently saw a kid at a session with the vent on his jacket still tied, made sure to give him a heads up before an MD saw him.

 

If it's the guy at GS, I know him, friend of my gf's uncle. He won't even recall and if you were to apply for SA, he won't even know its so far below him.

Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 
yeahright:

If it's the guy at GS, I know him, friend of my gf's uncle. He won't even recall and if you were to apply for SA, he won't even know its so far below him.

You do love a good name drop don't you.
"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

no way he has time to call HR and blacklist you. If he thought you were incompetent, he will assume others will think the same; therefore, no reason for him to spend his time making sure you don't get in.

bad luck... keep plugging away man

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be”
 

I used to have chronic nosebleeds, once a day easily. Definitely was a big pain in the ass. I've been in similar situations. Honestly, if I were you, I would have just told him what was up, asked for some time to take care of it, and tried to finish it up when you are done with it. Not worth blowing it (and obviously ruining your clothes, and getting blood all over yourself) just to keep it going. On the flip side, I'm sure all the tension or awkwardness was multiplied by about 100x, that's usually how it is. I wouldn't sweat it.

"When you stop striving for perfection, you might as well be dead."
 

I never had anything quite that random happen, but in general telling people your goals will result in some good leads... you never know who they may know or if they can refer you to someone. Also a lot of times if what you're doing/trying to do is far removed from their own occupation they might think of other people like you more quickly just because it's uncommon.

Congrats on the interview though, great start to the New Year.

 

did the nurse know anything about you at all. Such as the school you go to, that you were interviewing with other places or something else about your credentials? Or did she know absolutely nothing except that you were looking for ibanking summer internships?

 

That's awesome...

I know a girl with a similar story. Her dad sat next to an ER VP on a plane ride, started talking, and of course she has an interview lined up now. If only I could be so lucky...

 

Sammy101, the nurse knew relatively nothing about my credentials. We talked a bit about the school I went to and what I knew about the banking industry. We had a fun time chatting and my guess is that if she figured I was personable and well spoken I would mesh well with her daughter's company.

I'm thinking that the nurse's daughter maybe had access to my resume to look over for a second just to be sure that I wasn't some kind of flop. Like I said before, I do come from a non-target but have solid finance-related experience, started my own company, hold a few top positions on campus and a good GPA.

Just goes to show, being at a target is great, but not absolutely necessary to break into this stuff. I really think it will be interesting to see how SA positions pan out for all of us.

 

thats awesome... Probably the best story i've heard. Congratulations and good luck!

i had a similar experience. When i was buying my suit for my first anticipated interviews last year as a sophomore the guy who owned the clothing store(clothier?) told me all three of his kids work on wall street (i live in Louisiana so this was VERY suprising). His daughter was an MD at a BB I had applied to. He sent her my resume and she patched it through and I was contacted the next day by HR. It didnt work out but I got closer than I would have gotten as a non-target sophomore otherwise.

 

i got my internship last summer in a similar fashion, not so random but nevertheless similar.

great feeling, isn't it? congrats.

------ "its the running joke now, we now have fair trade with china so they send us poisoned sea food and we send them fraudulent securities."
 

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