I was desperate for a job, I carried a sign begging for one on Wall Street: Here’s how it went

After sending retired much than 1,000 occupation applications without truthful overmuch arsenic a nibble, Florida assemblage grad Sam Rabinowitz took matters into his ain hands — and cruised Wall Street carrying a placard begging for a chance. 

“Tried LinkedIn. Tried Email. Now Trying Wall Street. Looking for a Finance/Trading Internship aliases Entry-Level Position. Dedicated. Hungry. Ready to Work,” nan 25-year-old’s motion publication arsenic he precocious marched successful beforehand of nan New York Stock Exchange astatine lunchtime.

“I was laying successful furniture 1 time and I came up pinch nan agleam thought of carrying a motion astir Wall Street, asking for a job. And I made it happen,” Rabinowitz told The Post from his Boca Raton location this week. 

The Sept. 2 stunt was calved of desperation.

Since graduating from Florida Atlantic University successful May 2022 pinch a bachelor’s grade successful finance, Rabinowitz has been applying for positions crossed nan country, without luck. 

“I moreover tried to use for each these internships astatine JP Morgan, Citibank,” said Rabinowitz, whose dream is to do “anything related to nan banal market.” 

“I had each these feelings of fear, worry and slump astir not knowing what nan early holds,” Rabinowitz said, adding he was “running retired of money.”

So while visiting New York for a wedding complete Labor Day weekend, he decided to put himself straight successful nan way of nan group who could prosecute him – motion successful hand.

It worked.

A partner astatine an IPO institution noticed his sign, waved him complete and struck up conversation. 

“He mentioned that personification erstwhile gave him a chance, and he saw a awesome communicative successful me,” Rabinowitz recalled. 

The man moreover invited him into nan office, which was “everything I ever dreamed of, pinch each nan machine screens and stats,” nan aspiring trader gushed. 

“I met his partner and we had a awesome conversation, a awesome interview, and I felt truthful bully astir it. In my caput I was like, ‘I sewage nan job!’ but I haven’t heard backmost from them,” said Rabinowitz, who declined to supply nan sanction of nan institution truthful arsenic to not “jeopardize nan opportunity.”

“But I will get that job,” he vowed. 

Rabinowitz documented nan day’s events successful Instagram videos that person amassed complete 250,000 views.

The stunt comes arsenic nan U.S. occupation marketplace has weakened successful caller months, pinch employers adding 22,000 jobs successful July, down from 73,000 jobs nan period earlier and acold beneath nan expected 75,000, nan Bureau of Labor Statistics said past week.