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7 Crucial Skills Wall Street Taught Me That Facilitated My Entrepreneurial Success
You don’t have to work on Wall Street to master these skills, but it sure does accelerate the process of acquiring them.
Society seems to have a morbid fascination with certain sensationalized jobs and industries, Wall Street being one. Simply put, working on Wall Street gets a pretty bad rap — and with good reason. While I definitely have a treasure trove of banking horror stories to call upon, it wasn’t all bad — and I took a lot more than 6+ figures of savings away from my time there. In fact, some of the peculiarities that make high-pressure finance jobs so polarizing are what also make them so valuable for the employees-turned-entrepreneurs who use them wisely.
The bright side? You don’t have to spend 18 hours a day chained to a desk for 6.57 days a week (averaging here) to acquire those skills. Some can be mastered in seconds, others minutes or hours, and others may require weeks or months of practice, but they can all be learnt and practiced on your own time, outside the confines of a dungeoness investment bank (or other similarly suffocating corporate office building).
