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by CrashedMint
April 12th, 2014, 1:05 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?
Replies: 20
Views: 8934

Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976QuoteOriginally posted by: CrashedMintThere are guys that walk around like verbatim copies of their advisers' ideas. No original thoughts. None.Very often, this is the most efficient way to actually get the degree. The last thing you would want to do is to ...
by CrashedMint
April 12th, 2014, 11:13 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: ~*Free Tarot Readings!*~
Replies: 186
Views: 27568

~*Free Tarot Readings!*~

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by CrashedMint
April 12th, 2014, 11:12 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: ~*Free Tarot Readings!*~
Replies: 186
Views: 27568

~*Free Tarot Readings!*~

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by CrashedMint
April 12th, 2014, 11:10 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: ~*Free Tarot Readings!*~
Replies: 186
Views: 27568

~*Free Tarot Readings!*~

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by CrashedMint
April 12th, 2014, 11:08 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?
Replies: 20
Views: 8934

Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: tagomaQuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnQuoteOriginally posted by: CrashedMintQuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnDoing a Masters degree -in general- says nothing about ability in independent thinking.Neither does doing a PhD.Wel...
by CrashedMint
April 12th, 2014, 10:18 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?
Replies: 20
Views: 8934

Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?

QuoteOriginally posted by: CuchulainnDoing a Masters degree -in general- says nothing about ability in independent thinking.Neither does doing a PhD.
by CrashedMint
April 11th, 2014, 8:04 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?
Replies: 20
Views: 8934

Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?

QuoteOriginally posted by: traderjoe1976Seems that you are going to LSE where they automatically admit the Masters student who get distinction into their PhD program.isn't that customary?excellent MA --> get talked into doing PhD.every university in the world.
by CrashedMint
April 11th, 2014, 7:08 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?
Replies: 20
Views: 8934

Inexperienced grad seeks help: should I do phd?

<t>if you are interested into research, if you fancy a DR before your name or if you want to have an "out" as in "going back to university to teach" you should do a PhD. It's also very, very convenient for contract work. If you are looking for an actual job the Phd will do you more harm than good: U...
by CrashedMint
April 11th, 2014, 7:04 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Financial Newsletter Distribution Firms/Contacts
Replies: 9
Views: 6225

Financial Newsletter Distribution Firms/Contacts

the newsletters I'm getting automatically and which are not from some team inside the firm are from dow jones, argus and platts. not sure if this helps...
by CrashedMint
April 3rd, 2014, 9:35 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Structuring Boutiques
Replies: 6
Views: 6383

Structuring Boutiques

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: katastrofaPersonal study and personal projects. Code some things in a real programming language, write up some data analysis, post these things on your webpage.no.internship is the way to go. OP is probably considered "smart" and "academic" and now needs to proof he can...
by CrashedMint
April 3rd, 2014, 6:43 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Exploding offers from IBs?
Replies: 11
Views: 7682

Exploding offers from IBs?

2 weeks from the date the contract was prepared. then it takes a couple of days for hr to collect signatures within the firm so realistically you have something around 10 days. Depending on how good/bad you are you can ask hr for additional time, maybe an extra 1 or 2 weeks.
by CrashedMint
March 31st, 2014, 6:09 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Applying via LinkedIn
Replies: 15
Views: 14441

Applying via LinkedIn

some guy actually told me he got his job at a really good wall st. firm through linkedin. so it appears it actually works?
by CrashedMint
March 29th, 2014, 9:39 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Phd Finance offer and career paths
Replies: 5
Views: 6564

Phd Finance offer and career paths

work and do the phd on the side
by CrashedMint
March 25th, 2014, 2:58 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Oops. I did it again.
Replies: 18
Views: 8874

Oops. I did it again.

<t>if i heard some story were you had to deal with visa issues but you didn't give up but instead worked as a freelance programmer and developer and had to be real client-focused and eventually you got that visa and you go that degree it wouldn't sound too bad to me. you can probably also say that a...
by CrashedMint
March 19th, 2014, 7:12 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: romney again?
Replies: 96
Views: 10659

romney again?

<t>It must be a nice feeling: You made the impossible possible and lost against post-Obamacare-Obama, now things aren't exactly running super smooth for him so you point out and that... he's... like... totally... not good and people are stupid because they should have voted for me and see I told you...