Where Is Lehman Now?

June 20th, 2011 by Ryan Windeyer |

One month has passed since graduation. The past month has been both exciting—with a lot of new opportunities that have come my way and a very eventful road trip back home—and boring: a lot of sitting around, and waiting.

A few of my interviews since I’ve returned home have been interesting. One was with a market intelligence company, for a role I never personally saw myself in, or even heard of before. Although I wasn’t offered employment, if anything, I’m grateful for having gone into their office to learn more about the niche this company fills and their importance in the financial-services industry.

Another interview was for a position with an “investment bank” as a broker, but after going into their midtown office, I quickly realized it was nothing more than a glorified boiler room. (I’d be making hundreds of cold calls a day based on data coming from who knows where.) I didn’t even know operations like this still existed. I remember the interviewer explaining to me how their system was developed by Lehman Brothers in the early 80s, and I was thinking to myself, “well, where is Lehman now?” Needless to say, I never contacted them again after the first interview.

The summer months on Wall Street are typically considered slow, with very light trading volume and most internship roles already filled. Now that the days following graduation have become weeks, and now my first month, I’m beginning to consider alternate employment for the summer while I still search for a full-time job.

Idle hands are the devil’s tools, so they say, so I hope to find something to keep me busy until I land something worthwhile. I’m considering studying for the GMAT in my spare time. Not that I plan on going back to school in the next year, but with all of this free time, if I ever do consider going back, I can devote more time to studying now than I’d be able to in the future with a full-time job (hopefully.)

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