In a rush to the Baruch Traders Club, I came in to the Trading floor on time for the meeting. But on time was too late – people were hovering over each other to see the presentation, seats were swarmed by students, students were on top of each other. It was a mess. 

At the Traders floors, looking for someone familiar. I noticed that the Baruch Traders Club meeting had already started next room, and I was at the wrong meeting. Investment Management Group was the club I was at, the room was full to the point where the representatives were starting to kick students out. Club member said anyone who didn’t have a seat had to leave the Traders floor. Hundreds of students looked concerned including me.

I stepped out with the rest of the students and saw that they were starting the presentations. “I ended up here for a reason,” I thought to myself. They told me I couldn’t come in, which increased my interest and I wasn’t going to let this opportunity slip. “No-one without a seat is allowed,” I heard the student say. I walked in to an office a few rooms down the Traders floor, and convinced the person sitting at the desk for a chair. I took the chair and walked straight in to the Traders floor, and pushed straight to the meeting. All the members who were at the club looked at me, I had broken the system.  The rest of the meeting, I listened to the students who were talking about Investment management. They told me there would be a training and that not everyone would get in.

Met a few students from the club who were impressed by what I did. They saw that I was ambitious and that nothing could stop me when I put my mind to it.

I applied and submitted my resume last week, we’ll see what happens.