Clubbing in NYC - How often do you guys go out
How often do you guys actually get to go out? I'd imagine with the hours that people get out maybe once friday or saturday at best, but even then I'm not sure how easy that would be.
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I've always been more of the nerdy dungeons and dragons type so I don't club that often, if at all. I can't imagine IBD guys do much though. Still curious. How can you guys keep such intense office hours and then do anything else but sleep or veg out?
Depends. Banking ovbiously less, but sales and trading can go out two or three times a week if they wanted to. Also, Weds and Thursday are pretty big nights to go on Wall Street.
This is more directed at FinancePun than the OP but part of blowing off steam is going out, maybe getting hammered (ok, definitely getting hammered) and having a good time. There are times when I do want to go home and do nothing but watch every repeat of SportsCenter for 5 hours but thats not common. (To be fair, I work fucking disgusting hours but its not as intense as some of these other guys)
Well that's perfectly fair and certainly makes sense. Are there more clubs around Wall St. or is the clubbing more around the Meatpacking district/Chelsea? I'm over on park ave. and it's pretty sleepy around here after work, barring the Irish pubs (which is where my office blows off steam).
Check out Therapy dude its a badass club (look it up before you go though)
If you are renting an apartment in Manhattan your first year, you're essentially living hand-to-mouth on an analyst salary before you even go out clubbing. If you willingly go into credit card debt on $8 drinks and $30 covers (or worse, $1500 bottle service), you may not be as shrewd of a financier as you think.
I recommend a trip to Fairway and picking up a 6-pack of Hofbrau or Yuengling and inviting friends over for poker and board games for your first year instead. That's what we did three years ago. You may just decide to make a habit of it. When you're retired at the age of 35, you can keep calling your friends up for board games- you'll just have to be careful about not kicking too much sand on the Settlers of Katan board while you sit on the beach in Hawaii. Meanwhile, your friends who went clubbing at 22 in New York will still be working- and still going out every evening- and will be incredibly jealous of folks whose work every day constitutes rigging either a hang glider or a katamaran.
Monopoly with real money...
Who's in?
^Is this a joke?
Playing board games instead of going out? I'm assuming its a joke but I can't tell.
I was on the S&T side of things working 6:30am - 7:00pm on average. As a first year, went out like 30% of Thursdays and pretty much every Saturday and Sunday.
Since my friends weren't into board games, we just pregamed for a couple of hours each night and then went out. Prob spent $150 a weekend on booze (in top of like $200 on food and random stuff).
One weekend a month would get ridiculous and we'd prob spend $1000 between 4-5 of us, but again, all in good fun.
Rarely went out on Sunday-Wed. besides the all-you can drink at a Jets bar during games, and I ate seamless for dinner each work day.
Sadly, he's for real. If you get around to reading his post they all revolve around the midwest and saving every penny and not having fun, lol.
IP, I'm not trying to be an ass by pointing that out, I'm just sayin', not everyone wants to go gliding on the weekends and save every penny so they can retire when they are 35, some people want to live a little now and would prefer to have a couple drinks with friends after work and pick up a some ass...not play LIFE and Monopoly.
I would have to have an awful lot of money, probably $20mm+ (liquid), to retire at 35 because frankly, being the only retired 35 year old (that I would know of) doesn't seem to be much fun in my mind. I guess you can hang around some senior citizens and shark them at shuffle board but I think that would get really old really fast.
With that said, I respect your decision, because to each his own. As a matter of fact, my father raised me to have the same mindset but I had an ex-gf of mine teach me the importance of living a little bit because you never know when your life can be taken from you. And by life, I don't necessary mean death, but more of a death sentence (horrible analogy)...like loss of limb, cancer, etc. that would/could limit your ability to participate in activities later in life.
Just keep in mind that there are two sides to every coin.
Regards
Monopoly on three or four beers is actually a lot of fun. Especially when one of the quants I'm playing against is making comments like "All your [bases] railroads are belong to us!" I've given up Dungeons and Dragons- board games and beer are one of us quants' and research types' few remaining intellectual pursuits.
I dunno. Blowing $200 in an evening on food and drinks or cutting back to $20 and going hang gliding the next day PLUS saving $100 for retirement? I'll take the second option, please. And I never got the appeal of going out to some club where the music is blasting at 95 dB and you can't carry on a conversation with anyone. You live in New York City, you're surrounded by some of the greatest intellectual minds on the planet, and you can't find anything fun to talk about. Really???
Yeah, if you go to a dive bar and order like three or four beers and a burger and give a good tip. I'll do that maybe two or three times a month with friends. $40 is actually a good number for dinner out at a good restaurant with a single alcoholic beverage and a nice tip. But if you want to head out to the Pink Elephant afterwards and want to shell out $8-$9 for beer or $15 for mixed drinks, the costs add up pretty quickly.I've been out clubbing in Manhattan a few times and a traditional good time winds up costing $100 pretty easy. After that, we all decided to cut back a little and focus more on board games, poker, and beer at somebody's apartment. It's a lot more intellectually stimulating and you can actually carry on a conversation without shouting at the top of your lungs.
How many chicks did you pick up playing Settlers of Katan, Illini?
I appreciate the input Illini always brings, but I have to say he does not sound like a fun dude to hang out with based on his posts.
I would worry more about doing well at work than how many days you can still go out your first year. You'll probably be able to get out once or twice a week, but don't be surprised if you have stretches of 2-3 weeks where you don't have the time or energy to go out at all.
Smashing is easy. Seriously, what is the issue here?
personally, i would rather play board games with illini than hang with the rest of you chumps.
you need a reality check if you think that clubbing and 'smashing' is some kind of hobby. it might sound cool in internet forums, but life isnt an episode of jersey shore.
I'm not trying to be mean to the dude who players Settlers of Katan but put it this way - going out isn't as expensive as some people pretend and its a lot more fun....I buy a handle of jack. 3-5 girls and guys show up with a couple 18 packs of beer around 9 or 10pm.
We drink, listen to music, go out at 11:30pm and we're all having a good time. Show up at a decent bar (Phoebes, Bowery Electric) etc. Since I live in Murray Hill and not Hoboken, I can take a $5 cab ride down.
Maybe drink 1-2 drinks an hour and leave with a girl or my guy friends, go get pizza, come home and watch a movie or something.
Total cost: $50 each person probably.
Call me frugal but I would go much cheaper, at least most of the time. Just pregame hard with cheap liquor (cheaper than Jack can still taste fine) then drink 1 drink per hour at the bar/club to maintain your buzz ...no need to buy a bunch of beer and get pizza routinely.
Save $100 a week, 50 weeks a year, $5000 a year. 5% average gain, 10 years down the road you will end up with about $66K when you retire at age 35. Not sure if I'd plan on living in Hawaii for next 50 years of my life with that kind of savings (I understand that you will have other sources of income).
why not split the difference and go out every other week?
IP - Mensa?
But chances are if you live and work in New York, you can carry on an intelligent conversation about fiscal policy- or at least about imported beer. (I've gotten kinda highbrow since I moved to NYC- back at Illinois, we'd talk about domestic beer, cars, and football.)
In any case, I never got the appeal of going to noisy clubs. Talking with people is a lot more fun than drinking beer while listening to REALLY LOUD techno music.
The only thing is that's really $200-300/week, because if you're cutting out going to baller clubs, you're probably cutting out other stuff, too. I dunno. If I can net 10%, $5K today turns into a nice (used) convertible or timeshare in ten years. And if I give up a beer at $8 today, that translates into five beers at $4 in Hawaii.Finally, part of being able to retire early means keeping your lifestyle under control. And $100/week translates into hundreds of thousands of dollars less money that you need to have saved up to retire with the same lifestyle you're used to. I expect to live on less than 2.5% of my savings when I retire, so $100/week translates into $200K extra in a retirement portfolio.
I know where you're coming from about loud clubs, etc. Unfortunately in some circles it's impossible to avoid going to those places unless you want to ostracize yourself.
blowin money fast
At the same time, going out in your 20s while living in NYC is a lot different than going out in your 40s at your timeshare. Different strokes for different folks. I'm more of a seize the day kinda guy.
Im going to go with IP. Loud clubs are breeding grounds for idiots that hate their lives and jobs and try to have sex with cheap bitches so they feel better about themselves. living in hawaii at age 35 with some hot ass Hawaiian chicks catering to me sounds alot better than some nyc slut who hangs out at bars trying to get bankers to buy drinks for her.
idk just my opinion. and drinking shitty tasting beer and alcoholic drinks isnt really exciting to me.
i guess thats why only some bankers become successful in other areas after their analyst/associate stint. all of the bone headed partying ones get weeded out in translation.
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The above sentence is too wordy, it can easily be simplified by writing:
"Loud clubs are breeding grounds for Investment Bankers."
I don't know, I would personally try and save the clubs for the weekend and just do some happy hours or local bars during the week. I literally feel like death after a night of drinking, but then again, I am not 22 anymore :(.
I wouldn't call IP lame, he just does different things for fun. Dude rides a sports bike and enjoys the city. To each their own. After a while drinking all the time gets old also.
I agree, which is why I was trying to point out that IP is an old fart, lol.
I rarely go to clubs and don't go out often in general so oddly I fall more into IP's boat than the younger club hoppers on the forum, but I was also taking into consideration that this is someone in their first year who is looking to socialize, experience the city (night life) and hang out with some co workers in a setting that wouldn't be too awkward. Before I recently moved, I spend most of my time hanging out at a buddies house drinking cheap domestic beer, watching sports and playing bags/boards/cornhole (depending on where you are from) while listening to music and talking about old times. When we did go out, it was often to see my buddies band play at a local pub, nothing outrageous. However, I realize I am a bit older than most on the site and remember what I thought was fun when I was younger and looking back, yeah, I could have saved a shit ton of money by not going out, etc...but I didn't and I don't regret it at all.
I think IP's frugal approach is good to a point but it is hard to justify not spending an extra hundred dollars a week to someone who can (theoretically) make up the difference by retiring at 36 instead of 35.
Regards
haha san fran, you just made me laugh out loud.
Clubs are the reason I support abortion.
Can someone tell me why illiprogramer is still here? He's old as hell and has an IQ that is close to mental retardation that he is proud of.
He went to a crap state school, and was a back office IT guy who got fired from a capital markets job which is pretty much the easiest job in the world given all you do is relay info on the markets and push paper plus emails around.
oh and he thinks state schools honor program = harvard+wharton quality and he thinks saving 50 bucks a week is enough to retire to hawaii in 10 years. can we get rid of this guy yet or what.
finally, he trolls constantly for the midwest which is pretty much the absolute worst place to live in america and is a straight up deadzone of cold barren wasteland. detroit anyone?
oh did i mention he has no life and posts here constantly? he's like that old 40 year old guy on collegeconfidential that went to umich and constantly argues with 16-18 year old kids in high school about why his college is just as good as the ivies. just pathetic.
Says the kid who picked "Final Fantasy" as his screen name LOL.
IP is not old as shit.
IP is working at a legit job at a legit bank
He went to one of the top state schools for engineering. Just because you went to Yale and studied womens history doesn't make you special or smart. No one is debating whether Ivy league schools are great or not. What IP does and does well, IMO, is stand up for the competency of people who go to very large state schools.
IP is one of the most helpful posters on this site and offers a very mature and adult perspective. I find it rare considering that a large subsection of the kids on this site should be in diapers with the way they act.
50 bucks a week might not let your retire in Hawaii in 10 years, but it sure as hell will help your 401(k) out. He might be frugal, but you would think people on this site would be extolling some sort of frugality after living through one of the worst recessions in recent history. Illini might sounds like a stick in the mud now, but when you lose your banking job and have no income you will think he is a genius.
So much for the abolition of slavery, lol.
+1
Regards
IP is awesome and brings good perspective to threads. you're not even in the industry finalfantasy...
FinaleFantasy: I would sooner lobby to have some cocky fuck of a student removed from the forum for saying things that were unfounded about another established member based on nothing but his own superiority complex. I hope you end up in an ops job and spend your weekends playing finalfantasy and sobbing while you beat it to anime.
Wow, it must be tough if your parents / all your friends parents aren't rich... I can't imagine going out to a nightclub in NY and actually paying for MY OWN bottle service... you have to be rich for that shit... like 55 year old partner/md parents of junior bankers rich... but I guess some people ACTUALLY do it. To me, if you're actually paying, that just seems crazy at our age... even if your parents are letting you dip into the trust directly, that's not what grandpa built that shit for. I guess as an, albeit not particularly appealing, backup, u could just see if you get time to drive up to the hamptons and go to houseparty's and shit... actually you can usually get a ride on the chopper so long as you wait until whoever's dad can't leave work till late has to rent his own shit - most of the guys have tennis courts that can double as hellipads, so it's not an issue in terms of cars once you land. The hampton's is a free for all in terms of cheap partying... even the blow is free, so long as you don't get a bad rep for "never buying", which you don't so long as you're not ugly or just a straight bitch.
^^^^
at least 50% kidding, if not more
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