Honestly, I thought Wall Street was just a bunch of people yelling all day like in those old movies. But after watching some behind-the-scenes interviews and reading up on it, it sounds way less wild now. Most traders and workers at big firms just sit in front of their computers all day watching graphs and numbers, making trades or decisions based on what’s happening in the news and the world.

The New York Stock Exchange still has a trading floor, but it’s not like hundreds of people waving papers anymore. It’s more chill, with fewer people because so much stuff is electronic now. The real job is just lots of analysis, checking economic data, and sometimes making really stressful decisions super quick. I have a cousin who interned at a bank there and he said it was more meetings and research than screaming and fighting over stocks. Sure, sometimes it gets dramatic when markets go crazy, but it’s not like Wolf of Wall Street every day. In reality, it’s pretty regular office work, just with higher stakes and some fancier suits!