Christopher Newhouse is a graduate trader at GSR, a crypto-native market maker focused on providing liquidity to institutional counterparts as well as market making for individual token projects. He started about a month ago with a graduate class of 7, and was the only hire in the US this year for the graduate trader position. After some initial training in London, he's now on the desk and this is what his average day looks like.
6:00 - 8:00 AM: I wake up around 6:00, make a quick breakfast and head to the gym. I usually shower and get ready at the gym so I can just take the bus right to the office. GSR has a hybrid working model so occasionally people work from home on Monday and Friday. It’s great to have the flexibility to choose when to come into the office, but I try to come to the office as much as possible being junior in my career. I’ve really appreciated being able to turn around in my chair and have a conversation with others, and I like being able to walk over to my buddy's desk and shadow him during the day while I learn some of the day-to-day operations.