The Way of the Wall Street Warrior

CHAPTER 22Check Yourself at the Door: Career Checklist

Let's take a quick interlude and review how you're doing so far. Use this Career Checklist to see how you've fared:

• Took on risky assignments that have a good chance of making the firm boatloads of dough.
• So that your bosses only have one page to read, authored executive summaries using highlights, fonts, and enough formatting to make your kindergarten teacher proud.
• Triple-checked your way to zero defects and superstardom.
• Created templates to maximize your ROTI by using the same work seamlessly and interchangeably for many different projects.
• Delivered proposals and other requests from your boss faster than DoorDash delivers Thai food from across the street.
• Wrote succinct memos for higher-ups so that your boss can sound smart and still make the front nine.
• Created so many paper trails of your involvement in deals that you could win the office's Best Supporting Actor.
• Retold the history of painful deals by getting the last word in trails of emails that you've Hancocked.
• Persuaded satisfied clients to write testimonial emails, which you've also posted on LinkedIn, saying how great you were.
• Held your tongue so many times that even you believe your boss deserves the credit for your hard-earned work.
• Practiced your pitching technique with anyone who will listen, even your dog.
• Mimicked your boss's mannerisms, recommendations, tone, dress, and hobbies to the point where you can't tell the difference between them and you. ...