holdencaufield2

You see on TV business people doing all these shady dealings, with fast money and women, etc...

Is this what working there is really like?
If you want to get into finance are you going to have to face all these tough ethical dilemmas?

Or is this just a stereotypical view?
I'm very interested in finance, I just don't know if I could deal with an atmosphere like that.

drop65

monkey business by john rolfe + peter troob

i can't say much about what its like to work on wall street as I'm only a hs student myself, but most regard that book to be an accurate slice of wall street life.

z00b

As a further source of reference for said steroetypes, view the film Boiler Room.
I've heard Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis is a more accurate representation, but some of the "shadiness" was still apparent throughout the book.

drop65

ive read liars poker and the thing about it is it seems like a slice of wallstreet in the 80s and not necessarily so today. Also most ppl get into ibanking as a corp finance analyst and liars poker is all about the trader/salesman world.

AceRockolla

my uncle recommended i read liar's poker when i told him i might be interested in banking. hes an i-banker and claims that it's more or less a good representation of wall street, even today.

drop65

well i guess i'm wrong

Greybeard

A guy I used to work for used to answer this question by telling the story of a guy he used to work with who jumped through the window of his office, then returned to his job much worse for wear a few weeks later, and continued to slave away for a while before succeeding at his second suicide attempt.