The Unexpected Upside of a Wall Street Education |

A formal degree might be a necessity for most entry-level jobs on Wall Street… but the real Wall Street education comes from experience.

As a young, naïve man, I moved to New York City in a U-Haul truck with America’s Moving Adventure – Maine! written on the side. It was 1994, and I was wearing L.L. Bean boots and a flannel shirt when I arrived in the City.

Shortly thereafter, I accidentally got a job on Wall Street.

As a B student with a journalism degree and a 970 SAT score, I was an unlikely candidate for Wall Street success. I was an unlikely candidate for Wall Street mediocrity. I had to figure it out as I went along. And one of the many things I didn’t know when I first walked through the revolving doors of Morgan Stanley was that my education was just getting started.

Right out of the gate, I was out-connected, out-degreed, and out-experienced.

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