When a model turns into chaos.
11 Mar 2025
A financial modeler reflects on early career lessons from a chaotic, complex model at a law firm. The speaker describes what went wrong and what they learned from the experience.
A financial modeler reflects on early career lessons from a chaotic, complex model at a law firm. The speaker describes what went wrong and what they learned from the experience.
I'm going to have to throw myself under the bus, I think, because when I look back to my early career and look at some of the work I've done, I think that is shocking. I think back to a law firm I was working in. It was very early days and I was building the first kind of model out, but it was a bit of a Frankenstein model, which I know is a term that you like to use. Other people had added their bits into the model. I was coming into it to take over the model and adding to it. And I think now with my experience, I would have been saying, clean slate, let's get some good practices in. But I didn't. I was too junior and I tried to add my value into that model and it ended up being an absolute mess. No one really knew the full picture. So, yeah, I've got to throw myself in there. My own model is one of the worst I've ever seen.
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