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December 16, 2012 by Wall Street Playboys — 12 Comments

A Day In The Life

Below is an outline of how to efficiently run your life at the mid-level in high finance. It assumes you’ll be
working in the realm of 60 hours a week and you want to maximize… sex and money.

7:15am: Alarm goes off. Check email do 10 push ups, shave, shower and change.

7:35am: You walk out the door with your pre-packed food for breakfast and lunch. Yesterday you set up
a news article to go out, anything interesting to send to your team. They assume you are in the office but
really you’re on your way to work. Notably, the 25 minute time difference is enough for them to avoid
checking in on you, if you show up 10 minutes before people may try and compete with you.

7:50am: You arrive roughly 10 minutes before everyone else and toss food in the fridge. Grab breakfast
and eat while taking supplements you need such as fish oil and milk thistle for the massive alcohol

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8:00am: If you’re a banker this involves meandering around waiting for the staffing meeting where Real Wall Street
you’re going to be assigned to check some analyst/associate’s work and twiddle your thumbs looking at Professionals
offering memorandums. If you work in a market centric job, hedge fund or otherwise you’re going to be
checking out futures markets, trying to find a catalyst in your space and working on long-term projects. Subscriptions are for *future*
The next four hours involves daily work that we’ve outlined previously. Update models, write notes, do products/services only. Your email is
pitch books, attend conference calls and read as much news as possible. never shared.

11:30am: Head out to “lunch” and go solo. At this point you don’t need to go to group lunches if you’re Thanks!
established, in two words? Day Game. You already packed your lunch so you walk down to Times
Square with food in hand and open up the first 3 girls you see with “Hey where is a good seafood spot
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around here”. Go direct after 2 minutes and say “Honestly I don’t care about seafood I actually work just
over here and thought you were kind of cute so we should hang out sometime”. Get at least 3
approaches in over the next 20-25minutes. Depending on looks you can get 1/6 numbers or so, no Go
problem.

12:00pm: Eat lunch back in the office while doing moderate work. At this point most people now leave
for lunch, while they are out grabbing lunch use this time to practice a new language, type up the next
post for your blog, read up on investment ideas or simply read a book. A good trick for reading a book is
to get PDF copies as well, forward them over and have your fingers hovering over windows and D so
you can flip down all your screens while your background shows a fake excel spread sheet. Street Tweets

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4:00pm: Search out a good interesting article to send to the team and send it out for distribution some Follow @WallStPlayboys
time the next morning, begin texting a few girls you’re currently seeing and catch up on your current date
pipeline. As soon as you can, leave work for the gym. Leave some work items near by so people believe
you are going to come back. Start texting girls in your pipeline, see if any will come through relatively
easily.

6:30pm: When you head off for the gym, turn on any sort of music to get you back into spitting game
mode. You’re going to talk to at least 3 people while at the gym. You should be friends with the gym rats
or staff at minimum. Between sets you can send out text messages and continue racking up dates for
the week or weekend. Keep building rapport with the cutest girl you can find in the gym and go for
dates/numbers after roughly 3 days.

8:15pm: Swing by the office for protein shake, supplements and all other necessary items.

8:40pm: Walk into your apartment and head straight for the fridge. Chop up juicing material and food for
the morning. Throw items into a bag and throw some food in that needs to be microwaved such as
baked potatoes and set it up for 7 minutes and 30 seconds. You now have 7 minutes and 30 seconds to
shower (you do not have girly long hair).

9:10pm: You walk out of the shower, beeper on the microwave goes off. You pack the rest of your food
up and juice. Clean everything up and throw your mason jar in the freezer.
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10:30pm: Sleep.

Notes:

No TV or checking media or Facebook. If their opinion actually matters you’d have their
cell phone number.
The 1 day a week you do not work out, you can substitute for a nap and go out on a
weeknight for learning a new fun activity (dancing, art, bartending etc.)
Your iPad/Kindle can be an asset, do not browse through the web, you have a
computer at work
Juicing is done 2 days a week as you have a set of mason jars, more free time
You will also get days where you get burned by work, make this your new rest day for
both juicing and lifting weights, never allow 2 days in a row to break your routine
No time to complain about life or what you don’t have because you’re busy consuming
good information and improving yourself, success is inevitable
8:30-10:30pm can also be set up for friends with benefits, mix and match

Conclusion: During a working day alone, you’ll approach and talk to at least 4 women. This does not
include your weekends and your weeknight out for fun. You’ll be perceived as hard working at your job at
minimum come bonus time, this puts you in an okay position at worst. You’ll consume good information,
books, languages and zero clicks on “Yahoo News” or “Fox News”. The last thing to remember is always
being happy at work because people have a difficult time giving more work to someone they already like
as a person. Psychologically harder to screw over someone you like as a person, even if their work is
just “okay”.

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Asf says
December 16, 2012 at 4:43 am

Not browsing at work is incredibly hard.

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Drew says
May 19, 2013 at 2:21 am

Add 20 minutes of meditation in the morning and it will improve your willpower over time. As a
crutch I turn off my computer’s wireless access so no internet, forcing me to produce. A
hardwired work computer is harder but you could always just disable Ethernet for 50 minutes.
You can conservatively get 2+ hours worth of “work” done in 50 minutes.

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Capsaicin says
December 16, 2012 at 8:43 am

This post has reenergized my motivation to more efficiently and meaningfully run my life, to step it
up in terms of health, finances, career, women, and an overall approach to living a life of hustle and
fulfillment.

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wallstreetplayboy says
December 16, 2012 at 6:20 pm

The Internet is like friends, find a few sites to read in depth and ignore the rest. Hint hint yahoo news
is useless.

Glad this was helpful will write up a good weekend set up in the future.

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Drew says
May 19, 2013 at 2:21 am

This site is one of 2 blogs I visit on a regular basis. High quality brain-feeding motivation-
pumping information. Your writing is like digital steroids and you can quote me on that

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Mutt says
May 19, 2013 at 10:21 am

what’s the other one?

Capsaicin says
December 17, 2012 at 1:45 am

Yeah, looking forward to the weekend post. The bit about language learning up in this post reminded
me to get back on my Spanish learning — and I did a lesson yesterday and today. I use
DuoLingo.com right now for quick but effective study.

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pitt says
January 11, 2013 at 11:16 am

great post man

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Kievy says
January 31, 2013 at 1:31 am

This post inspired me to read more

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Wall Street Playboys says

January 31, 2013 at 3:12 am

That’s a good thing. Watching TV and seeing how awful the world is isn’t making you any richer.
A book might.

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PJ Pires says
June 1, 2017 at 6:49 am

TV is for zombie people.

Tomas Teixeira says

February 12, 2018 at 4:16 pm

TV is good just for big advertisers.

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