Enciso is BACK in the building AGAIN and today we're talking about our experiences as young adults and finding ourselves. We specifically talk about how we were raised as immigrants, Jerome being raised in Japan, the assimilation immigrants have to go through, and you can watch me speak Tamil for the first time ever ON CAMERA! As always, if you enjoy the episode, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, and join our community of curious minds. Together, we'll navigate the exciting journey of college and career development and meet some EXTRAordinary people along the way! Welcome to the Room! You can listen to the audio only version on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you listen to your podcasts!

Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:21 - Food Contamination 9:13 - The Lenses Theory 18:20 - Assimilation into Culture 24:23 - I Grew Up in Japan 31:22 - Why I Stopped Speaking Tamil 38:50 - Relearning the Beauty of My Culture 47:29 - How to be Comfortable with Yourself 57:57 - Change isn't always bad

Daniel Enciso is BACK in the building and discussing his journey as a software engineer staring from how he meticulously chose his college major, what types of internships he pursued, and the eventual career opportunities that open up to him. We discuss the difficulties of getting an internship in college and how we're expected to already have 1 to 3 years experience for just a regular ENTRY level position.As always, if you enjoy the episode, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, and join our community of curious minds. Together, we'll navigate the exciting journey of college and career development and meet some EXTRAordinary people along the way!Welcome to the Room!You can listen to the audio only version on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you listen to your podcasts!

This week Daniel Enciso makes his debut on the podcast as we discuss the pressures that immigrant families put on being excellent and how that has motivated us to be high achievers. We also talk about how we were rivals before we ever met, the difficulties of computer engineering, and the importance of using college as an opportunity to not only discover yourself but to challenge what you know and expand your mind.As always, if you enjoy the episode, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, and join our community of curious minds. Together, we'll navigate the exciting journey of college and career development and meet some EXTRAordinary people along the way!Welcome to the Room!

*DISCLAIMER* This conversation is for entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as investment advice. This week Maddox Southard makes his return on the podcast as we discuss arbitrage opportunities, crypto, real estate, and much much more. Maddox and I have known each other since the 3rd grade and I have some beef with him that I need to settle that goes back nearly 20 years. As we said on the last episode, Maddox is a registered investment advisor and owns and operates his own management company, Graybridge Capital, where he focuses on changing the status quo of quantitative and algorithmic trading to bring hedge fund level returns to the common investor who normally would not have those types of opportunities. As always, if you enjoy the episode, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, and join our community of curious minds. Together, we'll navigate the exciting journey of college and career development and meet some EXTRAordinary people along the way! Welcome to the Room!

*DISCLAIMER* This conversation is for entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as investment advice. This week, join me, Jerome Vaz, and my co-host Maddox Southard as we discuss the secrets to becoming wealthy, almost dropping out of college, online vs in-person college degrees, and much much more. Maddox and I have known each other since the 3rd grade and have taken on similar but slightly different paths in finance, me in investment banking and M&A and him in real estate and investment management. Maddox is a registered investment advisor and owns and operates his own management company, Graybridge Capital, where he focuses on changing the status quo of quantitative and algorithmic trading to bring hedge fund level returns to the common investor who normally would not have those types of opportunities. As always, if you enjoy the episode, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, and join our community of curious minds. Together, we'll navigate the exciting journey of college and career development and meet some EXTRAordinary people along the way! Welcome to the Room! Follow me on socials: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeromevaz14 https://www.tiktok.com/@romesroompod https://www.instagram.com/jeromevaz14 https://www.twitter.com/jeromevaz14

This week, join me, ex-investment banker and ex-electrical engineer, Jerome Vaz, and my co-host another Matt Dell as we discuss the differences and similarities between consulting and investment banking and how we were able to successfully pivot our careers away from engineering. We discuss the specifics of how we became engineers, what schools we applied to for undergrad, the current state of the economy, and even try to figure out if we're smarter than a 5th grader!As always, if you enjoy the episode, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, and join our community of curious minds. Together, we'll navigate the exciting journey of college and career development and meet some EXTRAordinary people along the way!Welcome to the Room!Follow me on socials: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeromevaz14 https://www.tiktok.com/@romesroompod https://www.instagram.com/jeromevaz14 https://www.twitter.com/jeromevaz14

This week, join me, Jerome Vaz, your friendly neighborhood ex-investment banker, and our co-host another recent ex-investment banker, Romeo Waldo as we discuss our expectations vs the reality of investment banking and reveal why we both decided we had to quit. Investment banking is an extremely demanding career and you have to sacrifice a lot in order to last. This week we discuss all we had to sacrifice and how being an immigrant may have helped us last in investment banking a little longer than we had expected. As always, if you enjoy the episode, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, and join our community of curious minds. Together, we'll navigate the exciting journey of college and career development and meet some EXTRAordinary people along the way! Welcome to the Room! Follow me on socials: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeromevaz14 https://www.tiktok.com/@romesroompod https://www.instagram.com/jeromevaz14 https://www.twitter.com/jeromevaz14

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:20 - Jerome FAKED his Weight Lifting Transformation

6:50 - Life as an Immigrant is Different

13:00 - I Didn't Know Anything About College

20:20 - Money Was a Big Reason I Went to College Near Home

24:32 - Sports were Always More Important Than School

27:45 - How Studying Abroad Changed My Life

34:30 - Revealing My Salary as a Credit Underwriter

38:50 - Leaving Underwriting to Pursue My MBA

43:36 - Beginning to Recruit for Investment Banking

50:27 - Investment Banking Was NOT What I Expected

54:40 - Jake Paul vs Nate Diaz Predictions

1:00:30 - Rating the Hottest Male Actors in Hollywood

This week, join me, Jerome Vaz, your friendly neighborhood host, and our co-host Johnny Ciscanik as we unravel the secrets of investment banking and tell you why it is simultaneously the most difficult and most rewarding thing you’ll ever do. Investment banking is an extremely demanding career often requiring you to work 18hr days for little praise. We go into some of the details of the grusome expereinces we’ve had in our respective investment banking careers. As always, if you enjoy the episode, hit that subscribe button, ring the notification bell, and join our community of curious minds. Together, we'll navigate the exciting journey of college and career development and meet some EXTRAordinary people along the way! Welcome to the Room! Follow me on socials: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeromevaz14 https://www.tiktok.com/@romesroompod https://www.instagram.com/jeromevaz14 https://www.twitter.com/jeromevaz14