34. Pandora

34. Pandora

Although it has been around at least three years (when I found it), a different investment banker will claim to have found this wonderful website once a month. Pandora.com allows you to make music stations that will play music from your favorite artists and artists that the program thinks are similar to the artist you like. Pretty nifty program for someone who likes hearing new music from artists they may not know, and for the occasional cheap investment banker who doesn’t want to pay for an ipod or to download legal music.

When an investment banker is “jamming” on work late at night, it can be helpful to have some music playing to jam while you “jam” (and maybe even eat some jam too...awful joke). Anyways, Pandora is a favorite of investment bankers because you can create multiple channels and don’t have to get bored by the same ol’ music on your ipod. What’s so amazing is that despite everyone liking the program and it being around for years, people still discover it today and think they have found a hidden treasure. This person, usually an associate obviously, will come over to an analyst claiming to have found the greatest thing since sliced bread only to be told that the website has been around for years. This leads to tears followed by me being given another few hours of boring work. But at least I made him feel like shit for a few minutes, I’ll take that to the grave!

I recommend you all try out the website, use it enough to realize that after a few customizations you channel will play the same 20 or so songs, then be prepared to snicker at the next person who brings it up. Amateurs.