Word: analysts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wang and her colleagues from Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath arrive at 8 p.m. for their "team dinner." They are disturbingly punctual, a characteristic I note on my list of consultant stereotypes, along with "overachiever" and "talks in bullet-points." Wang, the "business analyst" and most junior member of the team, chose the restaurant and puts the blame on Zagat's when Tom, the "project director" makes fun of the fancy French decor...
...Wang announces that she is ready to get going. We pack up in about three minutes and are on our way to the airport. She has apparently had a number of travel mishaps during her short time as a business analyst, one of which left her no option but the very undergraduate Greyhound bus. As she steps out of the cab, there is no doubt that the bus is fresh in her mind...
...Yadin Shemmer is sprawled on the couch with his morning orange juice, looking crisp in a blue dress shirt, khakis and slicked-back hair. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, Yadin moved to the city to work as an analyst for Broadview, a boutique investment bank specializing in high-tech firms. There are thousands of young people like him in New York, working a two-year stint in finance, sporting dress shoes and bulging billfolds. From the outside it looks like the lifestyle of a GAP ad--urban excitement plus youth plus heaps of money...
...wander into the recruitment fair each fall probably have no idea how they'll actually end up spending all those hours. Is this productive, meaningful work, as exciting and intriguing as the brochures claim? Or just old-fashioned drudgery at a hundred hours a week? Is the young analyst an empowered executive or simply a glorified wage slave...
...Shemmer sings the praises of the investment banker's life, we're speeding in a cab across the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey. Broadview's "New York" office is actually in Fort Lee, N.J.--not exactly Wall Street. One analyst tells me later that "it's nice to be in a suburban area. It has its advantages--it makes a more relaxed attitude at work." "Relaxed" isn't the first word that springs to mind, though. The office is in a bland white building overlooking the interstate on one side and a busy street lined with fast-food restaurants...