One of the summer’s most-anticipated financial blogs — at least by DealBook — appears to have met a swift demise. Tuesday, we got wind of a blog created by a summer analyst (read: intern) at a middle-market investment bank in Los Angeles, who promised to write about his trials on the job — under the pseudonym “Mumbles.”
Sadly, as of Wednesday morning, Mumbles is no more. The rogue blog, titled “Life of an Investment Banking Summer Slave,” had been deleted by the second day.
It’s too bad. The newcomer showed some promise. In the inaugural post, Mumbles introduced himself: “I don’t have a 4.0 G.P.A., play lacrosse or belong to any secret societies. Rather, I play real sports — basketball and golf, do enough to get by in school and prefer a C.F.A. to an M.B.A.”
This summer, I joined an exclusive club. A club filled with Ivy Leaguers, valedictorians, paper pushers, foot soldiers, and me, the chip-on-the-shoulder state school kid. We call ourselves: Investment Banking Summer Analysts — essentially, we’re superheroes without the capes.
Mumbles’s pair of posts included tips like “Never Go Home Before a V.P.” and ruminations on the grunt work that is expected of summer analysts….
Find out more at - http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/the-short-blogging-life-of-banking-intern/
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