How do people on Wall Street work?

personally, if you want to work on wall street (doing non-soy sauce jobs such as IB analyst, Quant, sales and trading), you need at least: under grade from a famous school in this country+rich internships in annual holidays+crazy application for the graduate program one year before graduation+all kinds of bad luck (including those looking for internships and graduate programs)+English close to mother tongue+good economic environment.

if you missed the graduate program, the students who already have experience and are now base in China suggest that you directly think about how to make money, and at the same time study finance in various ways to establish your own advantages in a certain field/skill. Then take the money to smash a bloody road: either invest in immigrants first, offer go to school, and continue various practices and networking during their studies, even if they are not from Wall Street, and then continue to networking like a hell.

Actually, in the final analysis, the question depends on the purpose of the questioner.

If you want to work on Wall Street simply because you like that feeling, I suggest that you earn enough money to be a big customer of a company there, and then let them give you a chance to work experience, so you can pay less.

If you want to work on Wall Street because the pay there is high, there is absolutely no need to go there in this job market downtime, and there are just as many opportunities in China.