IBD guy interested in trading

Thanks man - a very encouraging post! What does an intern do though? Judging by this account trading-intern-day-in-life) this guy basically wipes someone's ass all day. I stopped reading after a while, but basically he was getting off on watching other people working/bringing them food from McDonalds and handing them out reports. This guy was based in Japan, are things in London/ the US different? I understand that you won't get to trade real money. What do you mean when you say "then we trade"? Some guy in the Finance department of a client company calls you and asks you to hedge his exposure to the oil market? And you then come up with a strategy involving some derivatives and then execute these positions? Or some hedge fund client calls you and tells you to make as money with a long position on copper as possible within a given budget? I understand that there is little trading where you are just given a certain budget and told to make as much money as possible with this, given that prop trading has been scaled back dramatically? Sorry if I am asking a lot of (potentially naive) questions...

previously having been an SA in s&t, i can tell you that it is nothing glamorous, but that is mostly because of how little you actually can do. you don't have your licenses, there's a good chance you won't have bloomberg, and the the traders are almost always extremely busy throughout the day. That said, you shouldn't let what you do during the 3 month stint decide whether or not you want to do something as a career--you have to look at what you'd actually be doing full time...because that is for the long haul. the difference between a SA and a FT person in s&t are worlds apart. once you get your licenses, you hit the ground running and get responsibility quickly. your role as an SA is nothing like your role FT.