Banking sucks - What to do?
Been working in my group for about 8 weeks now (started off cycle) and I really hate it, the work is mundane and mind numbing, MDs are the most inefficient people I've ever met and there's probably only about 5 people in the whole group I can tolerate.
Is it too early to just find a new job? I'd rather go do consulting than this mind numbing shit. Not even sure if I could get a job at this point in consulting.
It's at the point now where I don't even care, I leave at 8pm everyday, simply because I don't care, it's hard to do good work when you just don't care.
Anyone felt the same?





suck it up finish your 2 year
suck it up finish your 2 year stint and leverage it into a good b-school.
Here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, you are the sucker.
Quit and recommend me, I'll
Quit and recommend me, I'll take your spot
Lol, you thought it didn't
Lol, you thought it didn't suck?
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- Schopenhauer
brutalglide wrote: Quit and
Quit and recommend me, I'll take your spot
I don't think his recommendation would be worth much.
brutalglide wrote: Quit and
Quit and recommend me, I'll take your spot
if you were smart you wouldn't want to do banking...
Good luck on your getting
Good luck on your getting fired goals in 2011.
Read "Monkey Business" and
Read "Monkey Business" and think about how those guys did it. If you really hate it, go back and read Eddie's post called "For One Day Longer."
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No shame in not doing
No shame in not doing banking. I looked over the edge of that abyss and backed away from that cliff senior year.
But now you committed, so suck it up. If you quit now early you will have it 10x worse finding your next gig. Banking, law, whatever... the 2 year commitment is more or less in stone. Unless you want to start your own business or Peter Lynch's personal office calls you up or something, you can't quit if you ever want to live "The Good Life" with relative ease.
Get a hobby. Do it 30 minutes a day. Make it your release, it will keep you sane. Read on your way to work, or something.
Grow the fuck up and realize
Grow the fuck up and realize that you are lucky as hell to be working in such a prestigious job in the midst of an economic downturn.
If anything just try to network your way into a different group for your second year.
Try to move to MBB now --
Try to move to MBB now -- friend of mine in London went from BB IBD to MBB in his first year because he also found the work in banking retarded (he is loving his consulting job). What you need to realise is that a lot of work in consulting is also really boring though...
This is your first job and
This is your first job and beggars can't be choosers.
Stick it out for 12, ideally 18 months. 18 months means they had an opportunity to get rid of you but kept you and provides a strong signal of competence and basic job skills to your next employer.
Whatever you do, don't quit unless you have another job lined up.
Work hard, play hard.
dude, what were you
dude, what were you expecting? I don't understand how people can get banking jobs and not understand what the job entails.
MBB is just as bad except the
MBB is just as bad except the skillset you build isn't nearly as strong and you work on boring engagements
It depends on what you want
It depends on what you want your life to look like going forward. If you want to stay in the corporate world, you're going to have to suck it up for at least a year, ideally 2. Sorry, that's just how it is - if you leave now it looks like you were fired. That would end your career as far "top" jobs are concerned. If you want to leave the corporate world altogether, like you want to go be a psychologist or a firefighter or whatever, just fucking quit. Why not? Just make peace with the fact that you can't come back, at least for a few years.
Well definitely don't be a
Well definitely don't be a man about it.
venturecapitalista wrote: No
Disagree. 18 months is enough
Work hard, play hard.
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