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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bass on the bottom," Billy explained. "I fish off Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, or off to the side of the JFK building here in Boston. What excites me is fighting for 15 or 20 minutes to land a 35 or 40 pounder, like I have done. Once I get them, though, I let them go. I'm not a killer. My family doesn't eat fish anyway. I take a picture, instead. I've got quite a selection of pictures." Billy hunts less successfully than he fishes. "I hunt sea duck," he said...
...mere 75 or 80 hours a week, compared to as much as 100 at larger banks. At the biggest firms, the partners conduct "bed checks"--stopping by each cubicle at 9 p.m. to make sure analysts are still at work. At Broadview, I'm assured, you might even get out the door by 7 on a good day. The style is strictly "business casual," which means no one under 30 wears a tie. Shemmer stresses how friendly the senior partners are, how receptive they are to analysts. It sounds suspiciously like a PR presentation for a hapless recruit. (Of course...
...despite appearances, this is a workplace, and after a quick tour of the halls it's time to get down to business. I immediately learn where these investment bankers spend their 80-hour weeks: in cubicles, in front of a computer monitor. This is an Internet economy, and Shemmer conducts the vast majority of his business online--trading e-mail messages, surfing the Web, with an occasional phone call to lighten the glow of the screen. Shemmer writes a report the way Harvard students write papers, stopping every 10 minutes to check his e-mail. He estimates that he gets...
...only two are women. With almost all males, the office has a rambunctious feel--Shemmer slaps his friends on the back and calls them "boys"; another recruit is a "stud." Several of the analysts' cubicles sport posters of scantily clad women, advertisements for a Web site called Bikini.com. "You get a bunch of 22, 23-year old alpha males, you're going to get a certain environment," an analyst tells me. "It's a well-dressed locker room...
...get back to the point where she was at in secondary school, she could vie for a league title," Haggerty said...