It's unbelievable...

...Once you start, time goes really fast.

It’s unbelievable but I am already half-way of this amazing adventure. Next week we will have our mid-summer review and I am very excited to hear how I have been doing so far in my new role. I have tried to meet as many people as people in order to arrive at the review well prepared and not too much stressed.

In terms of the workflow, it has always been really busy. During the past week I have been staffed on five different deals and I have been learning tremendously. Everybody is willing to help and people in my group are extremely nice and friendly. Every time you need help, you can just shoot an email or walk to the desk of any colleagues and they are ready to guide you.

My ‘junior’ mentor has been very helpful in giving me great advice during the past weeks. We have a coffee chat once in a while and he updates me on what’s going on in the news and in the group. We also have a monthly M&A meeting where the head of the group is showing us all the financial results of our group. Each meeting he brings in different representatives from the bank and outside of the bank that can give us interesting different perspectives.

Last week it was the 4^th of July weekend. I had to work but I managed to go home at a reasonable time in order to see the fireworks from the rooftop of my building. It was great!

This weekend we have to prepare a presentation for a Monday meeting. Even if it is weekend, we are all together in the office and with a great team hours goes fast and hopefully tonight we will all find ourselves at a bar with a drink in our hand after an intense week of work.

Keep you posted!

Matteo