sh0n Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 128nigel: Any update on this thread. I’ve emailed > you some questions. Hope that you can reply. > > Thanks sh0n, I didnt get your email. Try again I will check it tonite. sdyakows@uwo.ca Gecco, Very interesting, the stats on Europe confirmed my suspicions. Damn Socialists.
128nigel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So, I just signed me employment offer. Starting in > 2 weeks. Aside from 12+ hour days. What am I in > for? > > Please advise. > > And to everyone who offered me interview advice - > Thanks Very Much! Congratulations. Assuming its a sell-side research associate position, 12 hour days are the norm with 16+ hours during earning season. For some reason companies of the same industry love to report at the same date/time. You are very likely to call in for your boss for some calls. Take good notes and learn to draft fast. Unless you landed a bulge bracket job, don’t plan to work for more than 2-3 years. Your boss will be the biggest hurdle to your career advance; he want you there to be a grunt doing all the real research while he does the selling (and telling you how the models are suppose to look like). I have seen some associates staying in the same position, did all the work and hope he can become an analyst someday. But as his boss retires the firm got a paratrooper from London to be his boss so he is stuck. Fortunately it’s a bulge bracket firm so the job is relatively stable and easy.