Yo,
So I HAD found an apartment that I was pretty excited about. Great price, less than 20 minutes from work, and within walking distance of not one but two parks (!!), but last week I found out that Barclays is paying for corporate housing until August. Real downer, I know.
Guess this means I have to physically go look at apartments instead of just rolling the dice and judging based upon pics on the web. Until then, I will be rooming with my buddy Pat with whom I interned last summer in the NY Barclays (formerly Lehman) offices. He's a cool dude, so I'm pretty happy with that. It'll help to be living with someone I know, and who is eager to explore a new city. Also, the corporate housing is very near where I work and the waterfront, which is convenient as I was planning on swimming in the Thames every morning anyways.
Mom, if you're reading, that was a joke.
Now I'm off to buy boxes from UPS and try to squeeze all my belongings into eight or fewer cubic feet. It's expensive to ship overseas!
Cheers,
- Josh
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Start of Something New
Hi,
So I sorta got into blogging while myself and my mates were trippin through Europe (http://euronaboat.blogspot.com), so I thought it'd be a good way to keep in touch with my American pals while I am abroad.
Abroad you ask? Yes, there's been a change of plans and I'm now working in London instead of NYC.
Here's how it happened. After interning and receiving a full time offer from Lehman Brothers last summer, I thought I was out of a job when Lehman went bankrupt in September. Fortunately, Barclays, who bought Lehman, honored the Lehman offers, and I was slated to work full time in New York at the same offices, same job function etc. Jordan, Matt Curtis, Austin Regan and I were planning on living together in the city, so when I learned that there were some openings in the London Barclays HQ in January, 2009, I shrugged it off. By April, however, my best mates were still without jobs, so it was looking uncertain as to where they would be working and living. So I decided to contact Barclays about the London position, and within a few weeks I scheduled an interview.
Interviewed over the phone while I was on a train from Hamburg to Berlin, and, despite dropping the phone call at least four times due to bad reception (insert expletives-filled flashback) seemed to jive well enough with my interviewers. They thought the same, and offered me a position on the equity research team in London. Since London is just ramping up that division they are still filling out many positions, meaning more flexibility as to what I'll be doing. Right now it looks like it'll be something more on the strategy side than 'fundamental research' as they call it. Not sure yet, but I think I'd prefer this as well. Neato.
My friend Zach wants to play dota now, so I'm gonna call 'r quits. I'll fill in more details later, but as for now I have a temporary place to stay in London, and I'll be moving out there on July 16.
Shalom,
- Josh
So I sorta got into blogging while myself and my mates were trippin through Europe (http://euronaboat.blogspot.com), so I thought it'd be a good way to keep in touch with my American pals while I am abroad.
Abroad you ask? Yes, there's been a change of plans and I'm now working in London instead of NYC.
Here's how it happened. After interning and receiving a full time offer from Lehman Brothers last summer, I thought I was out of a job when Lehman went bankrupt in September. Fortunately, Barclays, who bought Lehman, honored the Lehman offers, and I was slated to work full time in New York at the same offices, same job function etc. Jordan, Matt Curtis, Austin Regan and I were planning on living together in the city, so when I learned that there were some openings in the London Barclays HQ in January, 2009, I shrugged it off. By April, however, my best mates were still without jobs, so it was looking uncertain as to where they would be working and living. So I decided to contact Barclays about the London position, and within a few weeks I scheduled an interview.
Interviewed over the phone while I was on a train from Hamburg to Berlin, and, despite dropping the phone call at least four times due to bad reception (insert expletives-filled flashback) seemed to jive well enough with my interviewers. They thought the same, and offered me a position on the equity research team in London. Since London is just ramping up that division they are still filling out many positions, meaning more flexibility as to what I'll be doing. Right now it looks like it'll be something more on the strategy side than 'fundamental research' as they call it. Not sure yet, but I think I'd prefer this as well. Neato.
My friend Zach wants to play dota now, so I'm gonna call 'r quits. I'll fill in more details later, but as for now I have a temporary place to stay in London, and I'll be moving out there on July 16.
Shalom,
- Josh
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