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&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s been well publicized that the top investment banks on Wall Street have brought down the axe on thousands of junior-level bankers in the past year, but not much has been reported in the mainstream media about what these out-of-work young professionals have been doing since walking away from their cubicles with very healthy severance packages in a very unhealthy job market. What have&amp;nbsp;all those kids&amp;nbsp;been up to?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, according to a &lt;em&gt;New York Observer&lt;/em&gt; piece published yesterday detailing the post-banking lives of several twenty- and thirty-something guys and gals, they&amp;#8217;ve been doing everything from blowing their dough in Vegas, building polo clubs in Florida and climbing to Machu Picchu in Peru, to indulging in not-so-legal substances, carving through powder on their snowboards and spinning&amp;nbsp;B-sides at fancy museum parties in Brooklyn. A few&amp;nbsp;crazy kids have even attempted to search for another job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, the &lt;em&gt;Observer&lt;/em&gt; didn&#39;t interview every one of many thousand bankers who&#39;ve lost their jobs since&amp;nbsp;summer 2007, so&amp;nbsp;if you&#39;re&amp;nbsp;one of those who&#39;ve been recently laid off, let us know what you&#39;ve been doing with&amp;nbsp;your severance package (and/or unemployment checks)&amp;nbsp;by commenting below.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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