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Name: Heather Warren
Age: 26
Company Name: J.P. Morgan and Co.
Years With Company: 1.5
Previous Jobs: Sr. Associate, Consultant
Education:BA, Williams College
1. What is your official job title?
Analyst
2. What is the job title you'd give yourself?
3. What makes your job unique?
4. How did your college major / graduate school degree help prepare you for your career path?
I'm currently tracking towards a finance career and (eventually) entrepreneurial ventures. I began as an English/Art History double major, which helps in speaking to slide presentations, but not at all in accounting, statistics and financial modeling.
5. What necessary career information was missing from your studies? How did you pick up those skills and knowledge?
Most of the day to day work is not possible to learn in non-trade school environment. Most people learn these skills on the job.
6. What difficulties did you encounter entering your chosen field?
My background did not indicate a future finance/investment banking career, so I had lots of explaining to do. Majors were a liability rather than an asset.
7. Why would you recommend your company or job?
J.P. Morgan is an up-and-coming integrated financial services bank, with a strong sense of the people working in positions, generally super management, and unusual interest in developing its employees for the long-term.
8. How does the size of your company impact your sense of job satisfaction?
Company size, as my consulting and investment banking jobs have amply illustrated, has little to do with how well you like a job -- strong management and good infrastructure are key, as these will best allow you to develop in your career with less administrative and political time drains and more time for the real challenges of projects.
9. What three things are most rewarding about the work you do?
- adrenaline rushes as deals are signed, announced and closed
- direct client work
- wide range of companies seen and equal variance in needs/problems in micro detail
10. What three things are most frustrating?
- lack of control over time + life
- ditto
- ditto
11. What three things are most fun?
- closing dinners
- travel on corporate jets to random locations
- how much more you enjoy vacations
12. How do you handle work stress?
I fit in workouts (runs) as possible, focus on managing sources of stress, "detoxing" after particularly intense weeks by breaking routine with quick golf game, dinner out and symphony.
13. How big a role does technology play in your career?
Huge. The faster we can get the most up-to-date info, the better, and the more quickly we are required to work.
14. How do you distinguish yourself from your co-workers?
Remaining calm in the midst of chaos; happy, "caffeinated", and frenetic after many hours on the job; always trying to keep everyone on team informed and updated on deal events/progress.
15. Which popular song best describes your working life?
"Flight of the Bumblebee"
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