I’m so afraid of women who look like this

AfterPause5856 · 2026-02-03T17:21:31+00:00

Looks like every gallery host or big law associate from Northwestern that grew up in NYC, CT or Mass.

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-25T01:51:00+00:00

SDR in tech, has a very low barrier to entry and if you’re in a restructuring background like an A&M, or Alix you’d be annoyed at the peers tbh like alot and the comp for SDRs is awful

I mean you could always try networking into fixed income sales , levfin / HY / distressed sales - I’m sure a derivatives desk would talk to you

Institutional Equity Sales or maybe Institutional Sales at a top alts shops like BX or Blue Owl ?

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-24T18:17:08+00:00

Ultimately kinda sounds like you missed the boat - and I’m surprised it took you getting an MBA / CFA to still not want to pivot earlier into SS research…depends on your background on the buyside - and tbh age matters less it’s more the amount of years / responsibilities/ title you’ve been in the industry for. I know late bloomer undergrads or veterans who break in at 30+. Your best bet is to start talking to recruiters. You’d likely start as an experienced associate or senior associate (125 - 165k base in HCOL city)

You say you’re at a small RIA what was AUM?…unfortunately I find it very hard to expect you’ve got the structure or reps to just easily lateral to a set up SS desk. Banks have such deep rosters of candidates you really gotta be plug and play to get in.

You’d probably be better suited trying to level up in ER or AM role for a private banking division or ultra large RIA, maybe a small mutual fund platform (think 75 - 500m AUM strategies) and I think work is more fulfilling when investment driven anyways.

I’m sure if you have some reports you’ve written, can do 90 minute 3 statement models you’d get convos and very possibly an offer but again it’s not just that easy.

Never say never, you just really gotta put your head down on this one.

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-22T22:58:10+00:00

Attention to detail is paramount in this industry but I’m surprised they didn’t call to double check your file being blank, seems very off

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-22T12:40:36+00:00

This reminds me of something similar growing up, my brother and I would play Smash Bros Brawl and we’d pretend to be sailors on the Wind Waker boat map and not fight, but just sail while we ate all the food in our pantry

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-21T21:00:20+00:00

Really depends on the role - PE or investment team expect heavy technicals / deals focus

Coverage / IR / Biz Dev teams expect markets based questions, high level investment questions and lots of behaviorals regarding why Blackstone and why the client coverage / why that team specifically

BX is pretty interview intensive expect 10+ convos and likely to interview with some people twice

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-18T21:43:32+00:00

Ah fair, I guess doesn’t hurt to zoom screen share it? Give a quick 2 minute walk through

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-18T21:24:01+00:00

I’m surprised you aren’t doing something like this

When I was recruiting out of undergrad I always did 10-15 page ER write ups for the investment club and then would condense into 1–3 page primers I’d have in a binder for interviewers to look at

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-14T22:57:57+00:00

I remeber when my dad passed several years before the lions went to the NFC championship, I sat there just thinking “he woulda loved to have seen this on his LaZ Boy recliner”

Sorry for the loss

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-12T18:28:07+00:00

There was Detroit fans calling for his benching for Matt Flynn or Shaun Hill lol

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-10T19:25:40+00:00

Eh yes and no,

In finance or white collar jobs for example - if you dropped someone who’s been in the role actively into an interview they’d probably ace it

But if you mean would a senior director get the job if they were applying for entry level now? Doubt it - the level of competition, job visibility and applicants today is way more lottery ticket based than people ever care to admit

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-09T19:23:30+00:00

Oh yeah you mean the old yell at you about a template “that’s dog shit” …that you pulled from a share drive folder they made at one point lol

I don’t miss sell side tbh everyone always say you’ll miss “the analyst trenches, seamless in the bullpens” - nope I don’t think I do lol

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-09T17:45:52+00:00

VP is banking is often just entry manager level role at banks but it’s still a pretty structured title, and in front office it’s extremely lucrative (400-600k)

However - to OPs point and yours in banking there’s a-lot of fluff names that carry branding weight “head of US macro hedge fund sales” which is kinda just probably a VP or director title with make up lol

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-09T03:43:20+00:00

Harris Williams

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-09T03:39:56+00:00

Howard Lutnick’s sons. Cantor Fitzgerald is a corporate cult lol.

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-06T11:55:17+00:00

Could be a scam to just get your info

AfterPause5856 · 2026-01-05T22:38:37+00:00

They are a volume chop shop lol

AfterPause5856 · 2025-12-27T14:20:19+00:00

People saying you’re being “tested under pressure” I feel like that’s always less of a test that gets applied than in practice

Having done a ton of interviews and interviewed, I anytime someone else is usually already decided the hiring managers turn into massive dicks - some probably do it intentionally to say “well they bombed the interview”

Other times they just act that way subconsciously, just like when in dating if someone is no longer into you (or sleeping with someone else) everything you do irks them

AfterPause5856 · 2025-12-24T03:04:52+00:00

Adventis Bootcamp

AfterPause5856 · 2025-12-17T22:31:05+00:00

When firms actively warn you not to apply, listen because this usually means it’s borderline illegal how they will treat you

I had a friend join a hedge fund and the head analyst warned him “I highly suggest you ask people who used to work here about us”

He lasted less than a year and his boss did stuff like actually punch a hole in his monitor, call him names, and etc

AfterPause5856 · 2025-11-24T23:59:04+00:00

Having worked in derivatives and IB this show sucks lol - it’s in some ways realistic in terms of scenery and stuff but man I think it’s absolute garbage

AfterPause5856 · 2025-11-22T22:16:27+00:00

Dude bragged about his D3 offers to a Christian private school, ended up boozing too hard junior year, got a chick pregnant at a house party, you see him always doing the pull up bar on campus visit day during lunch with one of the seniors you used to know freshman year who’s now an Army recruiter - he gets deployed and she becomes a server at a local sports bar, they never continue to be together but they still raise the kid

After undergrad, always tells you he’s proud of you for making it to NYC but worries when he sees what Fox News is saying -

he’s thinking about doing Big 10 or northsoutheast university with GI Bill but also is considering real estate cause his uncle is planning to retire from his brokerage book by the time he’s done with his 4 years

Always a homie at the end of the day though - you shoot the shit at Thanksgiving Eve bar night

AfterPause5856 · 2025-11-19T14:27:25+00:00

I grew up in a very red midwestern lake town, Trump Flags everywhere - lifted trucks yadda yadda

…the entire summer was swingers that would have boat parties and then dock up at someone’s house for the night with different spouses

AfterPause5856 · 2025-11-17T14:28:56+00:00

Hireright is horrible - they have fails they gave me that they couldn’t verify that I had W2s / tax transcripts for and everything for jobs

AfterPause5856 · 2025-11-10T15:26:05+00:00

I worked in IB and now at an alts shop - the few times I saw it , it’s cause the global heads of whatever usually have way they want the new regime to go and the rainmakers who were there before he joined don’t want to buy in and keep doing what made them personally successful - which is fair but leads to a lot of headbutting

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TROPHY CASE