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How I hacked the game of Wall Street
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(Full disclosure, we are paid affiliates.) How I hacked the game of Wall StreetWhen I was 21 years old I had two finance jobs. Well, technically I had one job - and two incomes. I was working as a trading assistant at Fisher Investments. And my investment banking job had paid me (ahem, deferred me) to take the year off. It was 2001 and I was making close to $125,000. But was that a gift? Or a curse?
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