female ignorance in terms of finance

You are talking to some dumbass women.

Just say you work in Mergers and Acquisitions, and wink.

Its for the best relatively few understand Finance.

I'm sure if you worked at Citi you would get those kind of responses...

I find most people don't care what your actual position is, only the company you work at. You could be a janitor but if you say "Oh I work at Google" they'll be super impressed anyway.

I say I want to work in investment banking, and the reply runs along the lines of; "Oh, so you want to take care of people's retirement money and stuff?" I just nod and move on, while on the inside I die a little.

"What stock should I buy?" -- that one always irritates me. This one usually happens sitting next to someone on a a plane or equivalent.

I would give the women with the counterintuitive responses a little more slack. Suppose you asked one of them what she did for a living and she came up with a career that you weren't familiar with. Your initial ignorance would be less important than your level of interest--and your ability to ask her intelligent questions to learn more about her...

Why are you talking about where you work with woman you are trying to ground and pound?

Wait, so you flat out stated that you work on Wall Street, and yet they gave you those dumb-fuck responses as if you're some kind of bank teller? You're hitting on idiots.

I've specifically told girls that I work at an event-driven hedge fund, and they immediately ask if I'm in risk arbitrage even though event-driven covers a much broader span of situations (e.g. bankruptcies, restructurings, spinoffs). Some girls are just really vapid and ignorant, ignore them. Girls: EVENT DRIVEN DOESN'T JUST MEAN M&A

When someone tells me they're an engineer, I ask them if they get to toot the horn to get the cows off the tracks. Does that make me ignorant?

Dude, what do you expect?

Wait...you guys actually tell the truth?

I was out recently and there was a guy hitting on a group of girls next to me. Within a few seconds he asked them what they did for a living. When they asked him, he said, "I work on the buy-side" and waited for a reaction.

rolls eyes gimme a break man. If that's the way you hit on women, you're doing it wrong.

lol, well do you know what the top 5 advertising / PR agencies are? Top law firms? top media / talent groups? Do you even know what people do there?

I have no fucking clue except for what I see on madmen / entourage / suits...

OP, it seems that you have absolutely zero game..you need to re-evaluate your life

I tell them that I'm an aspiring R&B singer but currently working in a fund so I can self-finance my album. Then I sing them a little lullaby in a short while.

My former roommate used to tell girls that he was a rodeo clown...didn't normally work out very well, but it was so awesome. Girls in NYC have no humor.

He had a whole back story about it. I told them that I was in historical architecture restoration. If they dug in, I'd tell them that I specialized in gargoyles.

My favorite litmus test was to tell a girl that "I am a cigarette lighter repair man." They give you this stupid look and then you follow up with "you know, when you own a mercedes and the lighter goes out you come to me to fix it." I just troll in real life. Any girl asking you what you do is too pussy to just ask you how much cash do you have and what do you expect to earn in the future; so have some fun with them.

If one of those girls told you that she was a Paleontologist, or she is a cross-talent controller, or a relationship developer you wouldn't know wtf that is, so I suggest you branch outside of your brain and realize that just because you love finance and happen to be knowledgeable about it, doesn't mean that every one else who doesn't share your interest is ignorant, on the contrary, it shows you think in a one dimensional way and you should go out more often.

I tell girls that I'm a bum and that I hire a retarded person in which I rub their hair. I give them location and all the details. They laugh and I'm still mysterious. I win

If you actually got game it won't matter what you do for a living, because in the morning you will be the one saying "..Get to stepping....".............word.

Your job is just like your GPA. Your GPA is just an initial screening tool; you can rely on it for a firm to give you the time of day, but it isn't going to get you the offer. Similarly, a girl will humor you once you pass the initial screening, but you can't rely on your job, generally, to seal the deal.

Hope this helps

Was talking to a group of girls / friends over the weekend. It came up that i worked in M&A, and they collectively said "OMG, like Christian Grey?" (50 shades of grey)

Sometimes when I go out with friends that are also in finance, we each write down an occupation on a piece of paper and put them in a jar. The jar then gets passed around and whatever occupation is on your piece of paper that's your job for the evening (redraw if you pick your own). I've been a butcher, garbageman, pilot, you name it.

Has worked out pretty well most of the time.

If you got to showoff your wallet aka what you do for work, you mind as well find the black car and get a hooker for the night and save the conversation game. Honestly, it is one of the worst things to do. You come off like a prick if you got a good job aka arrogant. And aka it is not spitting game. I only ask about work if girl says I gotta work in the morning or I got so much work etc. But I never bring it up until after she does. If she said I am MD @ blah and blah would it matter that night. Maybe in future, but get to know more what she likes to do and then if she brings up work, work it in. Duh

I know what you mean. I'm a finance major and stopped trying to explain my aspirations/activities to people long ago. If you really don't care about these girls, say something along the lines of "You heard of all those evil bankers in the news? I'm one."

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Friend of mine used to tell girls he was a pilot. Worked every fucking time.

This is ridiculous this is like when a girl tells you she just bought some red bottoms, you look at her like she is crazy, you don't give a shit and you proceed to ask her if she get them from Walmart.

Brutal. If you're looking for a fun night, lie. If you're looking for a wife, she'll understand. Fuckin chicks, eh.

CanadianPositiveCarry:

This is something that I've been meaning to bring up for a long time. So, apparently most women in NYC don't know the difference among different professions in finance. Initially, when women asked me "what do you do" I'd proudly reply with "Well, I work on Wall St. at (insert BB name)." The reactions were very counter-intuitive however. Some women truly did not give a fuck, and conversation went on.

Others followed my reply with stuff like "oh, you guys do taxes and stuff, right?" or "oh, do you work at the exchange building and stuff?" as well as a few crazy hippies who condemned my occupation. So, just a heads up to you prospective monkeys ... If you think that chicks will be super impressed by "I work at Goldman Sachs" ... trust me, the odds are that they won't know what it is. In fact, one of the worst replies I've heard so far was "oh, well, it's not as exciting as being a bartender or a photographer, but you gotta do what you gotta do to make money." #FML

This is a very confusing thread. Are you pissed because your "prestigious" job doesn't impress chicks?

If that's the case, you really need to step up your game.

Professional Pinball Player? Rodeo Clown?

Take notes, monkeys.

If you wanna impress them, dont bother going into detail about positions or even firms (unless its GS; if you tell girls Citi they go "Where in the city?" and BoA they'll think you work for the fucking government).

"I work on Wall Street" should be enough to let them know that you got that caysh moneh.

We went to India this summer, and my cousins asked me what I wanted to do. My brother jumps in and said "bank telling" I wanted to fucking rip his fucking dick off and put it down his fucking throat.

Atleast the girls you meet don't think that BoA is the central bank of the US.

I had a guy and his wing man approach my friend and I at a happy hour in NYC. One of the guys went on and on how he's a banker, he's a big Wall St baller, etc. My friend was fascinated. Then he tells us he's a vice president to which my friend replied "really? do you know the president?". This is where I've had it. I went on asking the guy which group he works in, what products, which building, if he knows such and such. Turns out he was a back office loser. He was so intimidated that I knew exactly what he was talking about and was no longer the "vice president" of the attention; he was shortly gone from the bar. Word of advice boys, girls aren't ask dumb as you think, we just act it sometimes :)

I had a girl go "So you're a banker?" and I got fucking pissed. I was like "Do I look dumb enough to spend 100+ hours a week at work?"

I tell chicks that i'm TheRapist, and even went to princeton for it

I'm sure you don't all understand what jobs everyone does and everyone deals with the same thing.

I have some friends who are engineers. Some of them create vaccines, one specialise in prosthetics and artificial organs, one of them is a civil engineer and deals with sanitation. They still get the "oh, do you build bridges" when they say they are engineers.

Most of you probably wouldn't understand what doctors do. Many still get the "oh, so I should come to you when I'm sick), despite them perhaps being a very specialised field. Even plastic surgeons get the "Oh, so you give chicks botox and fake boobs" when much of what they are doing is mole removal and mastectomies when people get breast cancer.

And of course the law profession is the same. You get the "Oh, you can help me with my divorce or get out of my speeding and drink driving charge" even though you might be a civil lawyer, in house, dealing with very specific issues such as Intellectual property and trademark law. Accountants get the "Oh, can you help me with my taxes" although the lawyer is actually legally allowed to give you advice on your taxes, while an accountant who isn't credited in tax law (and instead may be in audit or another area) won't be allowed to.

You're not that special because chicks don't understand your profession.

Finance is complicated. That's why you're gettting paid well for it. If everyone understood what you do, everyone would do it.

Honestly, I've been a lurker on WSO for 6 mths, took some finance classes in college, worked for a Bank previously, and I still don't understand what all the possible finance roles are. I still struggle to work out whether why M&A is so popular when in our Strategic planning courses they told us that only about 13% Of mergers are actually successful (this isn't a criticism of M&A, it's just what they told us at uni). When I was interviewing for grad positions at the Big 4 banks, I still didn't clearly understand what the job role actually was.

So I'd urge you to give the random girls you're trying to hook up with a little bit of grace, if they don't automatically know straight away the size of your bonus check last year when you say your profession. It's probably in your best interest if they don't.