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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Wall Street recruiting is aggressive and starts during college.
Chapter 3: Many people end up on Wall Street because they’re unsure what else to do with their lives.
Chapter 4: Working conditions for new Wall Street analysts are truly quite shocking.
Chapter 5: Most people heading to Wall Street often sacrifice their personal lives and their health.
Chapter 6: For most young people, working in finance simply feels like any other job.
Chapter 7: Work on Wall Street changes you for the worse.
Chapter 8: There are numerous other industries offering adequate pay, with far better working conditions available.
Chapter 9: Since the crash and the protests that followed, potential recruits have grown cautious.
Description
Kevin Roose spent three years following eight young Wall Streeters in an attempt to find how the 2007 crash – and its aftermath – influenced the financial industry. Young Money paints a decidedly grim picture of junior analysts who find themselves on a non-stop rollercoaster of all-nighters and extreme stress, while earning six-figure incomes.
Who Should Listen
- Graduates considering a job on Wall Street
- People already working as analysts on Wall Street
- Anyone curious about life in the belly of the financial beast