对于一个带有Bona Fide Wall Street Peigree的男人，比尔焊接在1997年离开马萨诸塞州长豪宅后，在金融之后，艰难时刻找到了一份金融工作。He interviewed widely and says he was considered for a senior post at J.P. Morgan, but in the end no offers were forthcoming. Now, Weld, whose grandfather co-founded brokerage firm White, Weld & Co. (sold to Merrill Lynch in 1978), is bringing the family name back to the Street. This month he joins Leeds Equity Partners, which invests in education-related companies, as a general partner; the firm will be renamed Leeds, Weld & Co. Weld previously served as chairman of Leeds's advisory board while working full-time for the Boston law firm McDermott, Will & Emery. After witnessing the layoffs related to the 1998 financial markets crisis and the job cuts that followed Morgan,s sale to Chase Manhattan, Weld says he's glad he got passed over for a job the first time around. "I probably would have wound up out on my butt within a year," he quips.