What's your favorite possession?

Car
14% (102 votes)
Phone
14% (100 votes)
Watch
7% (53 votes)
TV / Entertainment system
2% (12 votes)
Clothing & accessories
10% (69 votes)
Furniture
1% (4 votes)
Laptop / tablet
18% (129 votes)
Credit card
4% (32 votes)
Xbox One / PS4 etc
3% (18 votes)
Art
1% (9 votes)
Stereo / audio equipment
2% (15 votes)
Nothing, I'm a broke student
19% (133 votes)
Other (add to comments)
5% (39 votes)
Total votes: 715

What's your favorite suit color for work?

Charcoal / Charcoal pinstripe
21% (87 votes)
Black pinstripe
5% (20 votes)
Brown / Brown pinstripe
1% (4 votes)
Gray / Gray pinstripe
9% (37 votes)
Navy / Navy pinstripe
63% (258 votes)
Other
1% (5 votes)
Total votes: 411

How many hours per week do you spend at the office?

N/A (I'm a student, between jobs, working part time, etc.)
25% (272 votes)
Less than 40
2% (26 votes)
40-50
22% (238 votes)
51-60
19% (203 votes)
61-70
13% (139 votes)
71-80
9% (93 votes)
81-90
5% (55 votes)
91-100
3% (34 votes)
101-110
1% (7 votes)
More than 110
2% (24 votes)
Total votes: 1091

What's your current monkey status?

In undergrad
38% (290 votes)
Recent grad, looking for work
7% (52 votes)
In a graduate program (MBA, MSF etc)
6% (47 votes)
Recent MBA/MSF or equiv graduate, looking for work
1% (10 votes)
Currently work full time in finance, 0-5 years
31% (238 votes)
Currently work full time in finance, 5+ years
3% (25 votes)
Currently work in another field
9% (66 votes)
Quit finance / left by choice / retired
0% (2 votes)
Recently laid-off from a finance position
1% (9 votes)
Other (in high school, actual monkey, etc)
3% (19 votes)
Total votes: 758

WSO - what's the main reason you wouldn't watch one of our webinars?

I'm not interested in the topics
15% (15 votes)
The presentation times aren't convenient for me
32% (33 votes)
I'm unaware of when they're happening
15% (15 votes)
I wait to watch them in the video library
5% (5 votes)
WSO has webinars?!
23% (24 votes)
Other (please comment)
11% (11 votes)
Total votes: 103

2015 Interns - how would you describe your summer internship experience?

Love it, exactly what I hoped for
14% (84 votes)
Really tough, but good experience
14% (89 votes)
Going OK, could be better could be worse
15% (96 votes)
Too easy, spend all day on WSO and Reddit
13% (80 votes)
Very boring/not learning anything, when does it end?
10% (65 votes)
Horrible, I'm even considering switching career paths
7% (45 votes)
N/A - not an intern
26% (161 votes)
Total votes: 620

Long term, which career path interests you the most?

Accounting
0% (7 votes)
Asset Management
9% (141 votes)
Commercial Banking
1% (17 votes)
Consulting
5% (70 votes)
Corporate Finance / Strategy / Development
9% (129 votes)
Entrepreneurship
6% (89 votes)
Equity Research
3% (46 votes)
Fintech
2% (23 votes)
Hedge Fund
18% (276 votes)
Investment Banking
8% (127 votes)
Investment Advisor / PWM
1% (16 votes)
Private Equity
17% (259 votes)
Prop Trading
2% (33 votes)
Real Estate
5% (82 votes)
Sales & Trading
4% (54 votes)
Venture Capital
7% (103 votes)
Other Finance Role (academia, non-profit, government, legal, etc)
1% (17 votes)
Other - Non Finance
2% (27 votes)
Total votes: 1516

Who is the 2015 WSO Forum Member of the Year? Voting ends 1/15/2016

CRE
8% (30 votes)
Dingdong08
31% (121 votes)
Going Concern
5% (20 votes)
Illiniprogrammer
14% (55 votes)
Ssits
4% (17 votes)
thebrofessor
12% (48 votes)
TNA
11% (44 votes)
TorontoMonkey1328
8% (31 votes)
[placeholder for someone I forgot, please add to comments]
4% (15 votes)
[placeholder for someone I forgot, please add to comments]
1% (4 votes)
Total votes: 385

Who do you want to win the superbowl?

Panthers
28% (74 votes)
Broncos
35% (92 votes)
Don't care
36% (94 votes)
Total votes: 260

What's your favorite source for daily finance news?

Bloomberg
25% (178 votes)
Business Insider
4% (26 votes)
CNBC
3% (25 votes)
Dealbook
4% (32 votes)
Dealbreaker
2% (11 votes)
Economist
4% (32 votes)
FT
11% (77 votes)
Forbes
1% (8 votes)
Reuters
1% (8 votes)
Seeking Alpha
4% (32 votes)
WSJ
36% (262 votes)
Yahoo Finance
3% (19 votes)
Other (add to comments)
2% (15 votes)
Total votes: 725

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