For those who have read some of the previous articles, one point we try to make is to maintain a livable social life if you’re still human and not a walking spreadsheet with Bloomberg applications on his iPhone already. If you’re already checking future markets, credit spreads, FactSet new features and the like on weekends, bless your type A personality and at least leverage you’re obsession to get promoted. For fun, below are the personalities you’ll run into:
The Type A’s
Introvert: From our experience this is more common outside of New York but they are still around the big city. Essentially they have every stock in their sector, not just coverage, memorized by heart. They have strong beliefs in stereotypes about women, they believe women love money and want to marry someone who is going to be a home maker. Eventually these types end up marrying a conservative girl and you’ll likely hear them arguing with on the phone or being a complete pushover listening to her every whim. Essentially this employee believes in an extremely cut and dry conformist view of the world: get a good job, find a wife, buy a home, have 2.5 children – send to private school, retire as early as possible to continue the same cut and dry life they have. We apologize now if this description is a bit harsh but we just don’t get it, they exist a lot on the Street, as if the path they are in is a life or death structure and everyone cares about what they are doing. They also look down heavily on anyone who has been divorced or fell off this perfectly planned line because that is a failure in their eyes.
How they settle down? Typically meets significant other through a friend of a friend, or something that’s socially “okay” to tell the world.
Bank-roller: So you joined finance and think that money is going to buy you a hot trophy wife and all you need to do is make it rain. Well this is true and false. In New York there are some places where girls will actually know the prestige of banks by rank and this is about all the social skills you’ll need. Essentially if you’re in this group be aware that you have a gold digger and avoid the typical moves they’ll make to try to lock you down i.e. leaving a tooth brush at your apartment, being a bit too aggressive about escalating the relationship and of course pressuring you to let her move in (or slowly doing so by leaving more stuff in your place). We’ve seen many guys get into this situation and fail to see they’ll soon be out 5 figures or more due to the crazy laws in New York.
How they settle down? Eventually lock-in a gold digger without knowing it due to poor social skills, wife likely cheats on the side while raising the kids, hopefully has a pre-nup.
The Type B’s
Player: This group is helping create the bad perception of the Street just like the bank-roller but is doing it in a sneaky way. When out on the town they won’t tell anyone they work on the Street and goes out in this fashion for a long time, years on end. Unlike the Type A mindset of money = girls, the Type B is leveraging the mindset of unavailability + fun = girls. Seeing this go down, eventually the girl hears from someone else that the guy she is seeing is actually on Wall Street, this generally leads to massive attachment since she now thinks guys on Wall Street aren’t bad at all. This leads to a short lived relationship because he’s doing this to many women at the same time.
How they settle down? Two answers, they knock someone up or they get tired of the system and realize they want a family, usually never worried about finding a girl they like so it moves quickly at the 30-39 yr range.
Partier: A mix of the player and the bank-roller this employee typically does not date and sticks with one-night stands. Instead of dating he’ll be more likely to use drugs (similar to bank-roller) but is extremely good socially (player) and ends up saving less to jump right into hooking up. This partier takes many shapes and forms and is not limited to simply night clubs like an average person would assume. Instead they can be found having many house parties, have specific pick up bars, night clubs and many others. But the key is unlike the bank-roller buying up a trophy wife the party fun vibe tends to be the draw for hooking up.
How they settle down? Knock-up, most of these guys knock someone up and then spend their time lecturing you on how you should continue to line up as many girls as possible while you can or the new child changes their life and they aren’t so into the party scene.
The Talker: This person is an incredibly good story teller and talker, particularly in groups or in dull settings, they steer conversations. Unlike the player and partier they tend to look for people to date but by doing so inevitably do have random hook ups or loop someone like the player. Another contrast is that they have high expectations and won’t ever be found in non-touristy areas, think of it as a smooth talking prince. Still looped into the Type B as they are social creatures but do exhibit some Type A settling for nothing but the best when it comes to dating.
How they settle down? Get lucky and land someone who meets extremely high standards or more likely, meets someone who meets lowered expectations after settling down a bit.
Disclaimer: We believe Type A personalities are cunts. So this is biased. We’re fairly confident that the description is accurate in the closed mindset of meeting through friends is good and that people at clubs/bars are bad. Also one completely biased view on online dating for the Street… your selection is either the player or the introvert from the people we have seen using it as the player is maximizing dates and the introvert is reaching for something that is just barely “okay” enough to tell people.
