Monkey Business: Swinging Through The Wall Street Jungle

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Monkey Business: Swinging Through The Wall Street Jungle

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Meet John and Peter, two young business school graduates about to become frustrated foot soldiers for the world of high finance. 20 hour days, inflated salaries, senseless prospects, outlandish characters and strip club lap dances make escaping with their sanity sound like the best deal of all.

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Rating:
Date: 2008-05-30
five stars for honesty
Out there is an army of white males taking or preparing for the LSAT, GMAT, GRE and applying to law schools and business schools. This is not exactly the road less travelled, but neither was the road to Rome, right?

I could really relate to this book. OK it's fairly shabbily written - reads like it was put together over a couple of all-nighters - but, especially the stuff on office bishop bashing, it is honest in a way that is sometimes startling. Pick your poison - this is how it is.

Rating:
Date: 2008-05-28
Funny and truthful
Gives rather cynical, but realistic and funny inside view to the actual work in the great corporate finance houses.

Rating:
Date: 2008-05-25
Interesting in parts...low reviewers miss the point
Skip through the vulgarity and focus on the business details, which are interesting.

A lot of reviewers gave a low rating, because they feel the authors complained too much about their high paying jobs. The idea of these reviewers seems to be 'of course you have to work hard and sacrifice to make a lot of money'. This misses the point, the authors of this book describe how i-banking associates and analysts (slaves), work hard and sacrifice in an almost totally non-productive way. It's make work that they do instead of real work, and it doesn't actually contribute any of the profit that makes up their 200k compensation. It's just some mindless ritual that ruins their personal lives.

Rating:
Date: 2008-04-17
Insightful, Fresh
The book is great and offers a simple, refreshing look at the insular world of investment banking. I learned a lot, and it was really an easy, fun read. Highly recommended!

Rating:
Date: 2008-04-14
easy to read but short of content
It's not the kind of book that bores the reader but I gave it 2 stars only because it's just excessively cynical. What I mean is that the author sees the worst in everything and everybody and yet they have chosen this career after they had previously had the chance to work in investment banking. Why could that be if the this was all about money, status and showing off? Why? Not hard to guess.