This afternoon, I attended the Wall Street Career Panel with a few of my friends. I’ve been planning to attend this event all week and was fairly excited to find out what it had to offer. As we started to head to the location of the event, it came to our attention that we had to RSVP prior in order to get in. This really began to stress me out since I really needed to attend this event for my last blog post. Luckily, the director allowed us in since not all the seats were filled.

As the panelists began to take their seats, I started to become very excited due to the fact that these were men and women that actually worked on Wall Street. They were introduced by a women who ran this event and it came to my attention that these panelists were actually all Baruch graduates. Not only that, but they all graduated fairly recently with the oldest graduating about 9 years ago. The excitement I was already feeling as soon as I stepped into the conference room, now sky rocketed. Working on Wall Street is a life long dream of mine and seeing people that graduated from the college I am currently attending made me feel more confident in being able to make this dream become a reality.

As the event went by, the panelists introduced themselves, talked about their background information, and elaborated on their current occupation in Wall Street. Halfway through the event, my excitement dropped and I began to become very bored. I was expecting big time Wall Street brokers or CEO’s talking about the opportunities Wall Street has to offer, but instead it was a meeting about how these Baruch graduates gained a position in a Wall Street firm in general. The opportunity to even work on Wall Street is amazing, but even than none of these panelists really seemed happy with what they were doing. It made me feel as if working on Wall Street may not be as amazing as I pictured it. Looking back at the event, I did not find the advice from the panelists very appealing, but instead I took the experience as a chance to really figure out what I want to do with my life and not to let it get in the way of my dreams.