<p>You see on TV business people doing all these shady dealings, with fast money and women, etc...</p>
<p>Is this what working there is really like?
If you want to get into finance are you going to have to face all these tough ethical dilemmas?</p>
<p>Or is this just a stereotypical view?
I'm very interested in finance, I just don't know if I could deal with an atmosphere like that.</p>
<p>monkey business by john rolfe + peter troob</p>
<p>i can't say much about what its like to work on wall street as I'm only a hs student myself, but most regard that book to be an accurate slice of wall street life.</p>
<p>As a further source of reference for said steroetypes, view the film Boiler Room.
I've heard Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis is a more accurate representation, but some of the "shadiness" was still apparent throughout the book.</p>
<p>ive read liars poker and the thing about it is it seems like a slice of wallstreet in the 80s and not necessarily so today. Also most ppl get into ibanking as a corp finance analyst and liars poker is all about the trader/salesman world.</p>
<p>my uncle recommended i read liar's poker when i told him i might be interested in banking. hes an i-banker and claims that it's more or less a good representation of wall street, even today.</p>
<p>well i guess i'm wrong</p>
<p>A guy I used to work for used to answer this question by telling the story of a guy he used to work with who jumped through the window of his office, then returned to his job much worse for wear a few weeks later, and continued to slave away for a while before succeeding at his second suicide attempt.</p>