Phyllis Lee

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Year 1 in LA: POV from Former New Yorker

April 1, 2021 was the day I moved to LA. I remember anxiously sitting in the lobby of my NYC apartment at 3am with my luggage, awkwardly making eye contact with the doorman while waiting for my Uber to JFK. Whenever I make a big, life changing ...
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My Path to Private Equity & Los Angeles

Several months ago, I wrote about leaving NYC and investment banking without explaining why… As you can tell from the title of this post, I moved across the country from New York City to Los Angeles to start a new career as a private ...
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Investment Banking & NYC: A Reflection

2021 is not even halfway over, and this year has already brought more change than I ever imagined. I am no stranger to change. Growing up, I moved around frequently as my professor parents pursued their PhDs. I was used to switching schools, ...
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10 Lessons from Year 3 in the Real World

  As I begin the fourth year of my career, I thought I would keep up my series of real world lessons. The year 1 and year 2 lessons were proven useful again this past year, but below are the 10 points that I want to highlight in this post. ...
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2.5 Months of Quarantine

  Hello! I hope everyone is staying safe and managing to stay sane during quarantine. I am… hanging in there. I finished work this Friday at 11:30pm, got into bed but my mind was too awake, so I thought I would write a post about my ...
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Another New Year…

When I was in elementary school, my teachers made the students write the heading on the top left corner of our papers, consisting of name, subject and the date, which had to be spelled out completely. I always hated it when months changed, ...
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