not when there are millions of actual wallstreet guys
At the Dakota Roadhouse near the World Trade Center, there is a mix between Finance Guys and Construction Workers. Most girls tend to stay away from both types. Especially the pretty ones.
Never, ever, tell her she has a fat tail 
That’s starting to reek of gold digger
Academic interest
And the reason is? I think the construction workers or tradesmen are doing ok in Australia.
It’s obviously because they aren’t talking about the CFA. When the handsome men talk about the CFA, I can’t help myself!
And why do they avoid finance guys?
I just set my fall schedule to play rugby and study for Level I (taking June 2013). I am studying 4 days a week, playing rugby 3 days, and trying to get in 30 minutes of exercise on my study days. And, I work a regular job.
Towards the end of Level 1, I was reading Secret Sauce in between weight sets. All the gym goers would stare at my book of put and call diagrams and think what is this guy doing? Is that some kind of wicked work out plan? lol
^dedication… 
Joined just because of this thread. Love it!
For me, I personally try to avoid studying for multiple hours at a time at all cost and I always try to squeeze in study time whenever I can.
So what I do is wake up at 6. Study for an hour. Get ready for work. I take public transportation and normally I try to just remember what I just studied earlier. Finish work but then I stay at work and study for an hour. And on the way home or to dinner I would review what I studied again. Dinner out because I’d just be as unhealthy if I ate dinner in and I’d save the time. Then a couple hours of life (workout, tv, facebook, currently learning to play the guitar!). Then I study for another hour and then off to bed. Works out to be around 3 hours day for 4 days a week. On Fridays I de-stress so I don’t study at night. Weekends are spontaneous but I always get in 3 hours of study on both Saturdays and Sundays.
That’s about 20 hours a week. If I do any more than that I don’t think I’d be able to stay sane haha.
Oh yeah, one last thing…always eat breakfast! That’s probably the most important meal of the day, even if it’s cereal and milk!
Good luck everybody!
I totally dorked out like that at the gym too. On the exercise bike reading Ethics or Secret Sauce. On the heavy bag half mumbling formulas while throwing a double jab and a straight right, just in case I completely get banished from this industry and half to be a sparring partner for $1 a round. That’s my backup plan.
My wife gave birth to a baby boy in April this year, L2 in June (passed at first attempt with 8/10 >70%), 3 weeks holidays abroad somewhere in Bulgaria incl. Tennis, dancing and treasurehunting - what a crude mix, but was quite an indulgent holidays the bottom line that is)!! and church wedding in Croatia in September. I can recommend Sofia as a top dedtination offerring loads of value for money in terms of shopping, food and nightlife. Was there with my wife and son. Lots of beautiful people (for the single guys amongst us).
There were pictures from my older brother’s wedding about a week and a half before LIII where I’m studying on the long benches in the church during rehearsal.
^and you deserve the charterholder title
I can’t read when I’m on the tread or bike - too shaky =\
Congrats on the baby and L2 Alexander, and the holiday! I really hope I’ll earn myself some nice holiday to reward myself in passing something as well
Another quite balanced example. I love the learning guitar part! What time do you go to bed?
I’d study in the mornings too – I’d wake up at 3 or 4, study an hour, work out, study another hour, get dressed and go to work. That was all the studying I did for the day. I realized as long as I went to bed early enough, I had super human focus. I tried studying in the evenings and it just wasn’t as easy.
I’d hang out with friends in the evenings and only studied on weekends the weeks before the test. For Level 2 I think I’ll have to study on weekends and I’m starting more than 3 months before the test, but I think a focused 1 hour beats a 4 hour marathon session anytime. But that just may be me and not everyone.
OMG rawraw 3-4am?! What time do you go to bed?
Looks like a real problem for a night owl like me. Need to smuggle some more melatonin from the US
Received the curriculum. The paper is much thinner than what my flatmate had in 2009. My last work building is on the cover of Volume 1, and the bridge which I cross twice every day. Time to get real…