Revolving door Sprezza 1994

How to boost your career in any industry, not least finance

1994: I was just recently hired straight out of business school. Within a few months, just about 30 years ago in the summer of 1994, my employer realized that I was analyst material rather than broker material and made me switch tack within the firm. Up until then I’d never even considered the different roles or that I could be anything but a stock broker.

But, I then realized that my career could get recurring boosts by jumping back and forth between the roles of broker and analyst, as well as between the sell-side (broker or analyst) and the buy-side (analyst or portfolio manager at a hedge fund).

For every jump I would bring…