Sean Basinski Discusses Realization That Investment Banking Job Was Not For Him

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You know, I learned a lot from my experience and it was interesting and it was actually... it was kind of interesting like I got to study small companies and companies that were going through crises, I was a junk bond analyst and so in a way it was kind of interesting on a daily basis to you know, to study these companies and these industries and I learned a lot about that. You know, mostly though I think I learned what I didn't want in terms of my own lifestyle and that I just needed to have a job that was more fulfilling to me personally and I just looked and I saw that I couldn't work 8 or 10 or 12 hours a day doing something that I couldn't ... makes sense of, in terms of how I fit into the world and I knew that I ... that even though, you know, it was interesting enough work and I could do it for a long time, I didn't want to turn 50 or 60 or 70 and say, you know, Sean was a very good junk bond analyst and that would be like you know, what I did in my life. So I recognized that pretty early on you know, when I looked at some of the older folks there who I respected but I didn't want my life to be like their lives in five or ten or fifteen years and so I pretty much knew right from the beginning, I didn't know what I wanted to do but I knew that that sort of lifestyle wasn't for me.