If you were given an offer to any firm...
... could be a bank, PE shop, hedge fund, etc. Which one would you choose and why?
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WalMart; biggest company in the world.
Vivid Entertainment; self-explanatory.
^ Vivid Entertainment, priceless!
wine spectator... i want to be the travel writer
talent scout for Victoria Secerts
Steve Schwarzman
Wachtell....need I say more? I will anyway; because they have the best corporate and securities law practice in the United States, it's the most profitable and most prestigious law firm in the United States, and because of the collegial attitude, and their culture-"every first associate can make partner, and we mean it." AND they actually give junior associates real work.
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
Possibly Blizzard. A lot of gaming / software companies are just totally laid back and people actually LIKE their jobs -- making work much more fun.
This comment makes me sad. How the great fell.
First time (of many...) poster, long time lurker taking a minute to share his dreams or some bullshit like that.
I was debating gaming for a long time, but the hours can be hell during final cycles of the dev process, testing can be a bitch, everything can and will go wrong somewhere in the process and bugs are a major pain in the ass. Oh, depending on the game, if you don't produce an AAA title, you will be skinned alive. With MMOs, as I'm assuming you were refering to with Blizzard, unless you're running their regular server and patch dev teams, creating expansions will kill you just as much, except it's more content and design related than it is brand new development. For the server and patch dev teams, you have to worry about balancing, which is evil to begin with.
Now on to my job choice and oppertunity... I'm surprised that no one has said anything about working at a company like boeing, lockhead, northrup-gruman or raethyon. Hard work, always employed by someone that wants to wage war, getting to develop advanced technology. It just sounds very cool. Who knows, maybe, just like with Video Games and the Internet, you might just develop the next major techonological breakthroug that all us Civies love.
I can say from experience that engineering jobs aren't as exciting as they seem to be. I am an aerospace/mechanical engineering major that has gone on a couple of 6-month internships in the aero field (one at GE Aircraft Engines and one at NASA's JPL). It is cool to say you worked on projects like the new Mars rover, but the actual engineering work I find quite dull. Maybe it's just a personality thing, but I find financial details much more interesting than stress analysis/CAD modeling. Also, the part that you're typically working on for one of those cool projects is usually so small and far removed from the big picture, it seems no different to you than working on a toaster.
Engineers typically work 50-60 hours a week, more during crunch times, but pay is very low. Unless you get into management you'll never make more than 120-150k or so.
And even if you do develop the next technological breakthrough, you won't get much credit for it. You'll get a 5000 dollar "engineering excellence" bonus and the company will patent your design and make billions.
how about those technicians who work on top secret government jobs. Like in transformers where there's a gigantic crew keeping megatron frozen... where does one drop his resume to get an interview for that job? that would be f-in sweet. Well, at least until he becomes alive again and kills you.
1) Getting paid c. £100k a week (Assuming I'm good) 2) My boyhood club 3) Get loads of birds.
However, that ship has passed, so ideally, Sports Journo or WWI History prof.
haha I was just about to say Arsenal...but a spurs fan beats me to the punch. figures.
Seriously tho, to be a top athlete and get paid loads of dosh to do it!? Can't be much better than that. Particularly in a sport where you get so many natural emotional highs like Football - 50,000+ people singing your name when it's raining in January because you just put someone on their backside with a tackle!
Arsenal?? Spurs?? Why the hell do you want to do that to yourselves? Wearing those jersey is like serving a punishment. We all know the hammers are where it's at :)
I find it funny that these are all our real career desires. Yet, somehow the concept of money gets in the way and the possibility of our fun, ideal jobs is washed away.
know alot of friends at a top CS school known worldwide, have known people who went on to create games at UbiSoft/EA Sports/Microsoft owned companies.
The gaming industry is close to banking, in the slavery of hours, and ridiclous deadlines.
EA/EA Sports are the DLJ/UBS LA of the gaming industry.
Non-Finance: To run an MLB team or NFL team. Running the 49ers living in cali would be awesome.
Finance: KKR or Blacksone.
If we stick with finance, I'd have to say one of the top hedge funds like Renaissance (5 and 44? wow.) or Farallon, just because what they do seems so mysterious to the outsiders (us). I'll bet there's nothing actually that exciting going on inside, but it would be cool to see the people and culture of those types of places.
Outside finance, would be awesome to go back in time and join Google or Facebook in their early days. Not necessarily to get rich (that would be nice), but again just to check out the culture and meet the people there... whole different world from banking.
Who thinks they're going to end up living alone in a condo someplace in Westchester, jaded and have nothing but piles and piles of money when they're 40 years old?
I do. I already got the jaded part down.
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
Frieds -- I actually turned down a job working on an MMORPG (ugh!) I also have family that works in MMO development. Trust me, while the stress level may be high for some guys, for others it is just easy street (only 2 of 8 hours spent working, lunch breaks where your boss is playing games, etc).
Finance (sell side): EM Trader at DB Finance (buyside): EM PM at GreyLock Non-Finance: Actor, Author Sports: Pro Tennis player
Finance sell-side: Proprietary trader at Goldman Sachs Finance buy-side: Proprietary trader at DE Shaw Non-finance: NFL quarterback
G Unit Soldier Race Car Driver
This thread is great.
NFL Punt Return Kicker
Jeremy Clarkson Domenico Vacca Max Skinner
One of those or a mix
Race car/Motorcycle Driver. Just think of it like this, out to dinner or anywhere else, and someone asks you What do you do? What do you really want to say.
Pro tennis (Federer) or soccer (Shevchenko) player..travel writer/chef (Anthony Bourdain). Engineering super-james-bond gadgets. For finance, work for Renaissance.
It depresses me that people come in here and say something finance related when they can literally say ANYTHING.
Good lord, if you'd rather do PE/HF/VC/BS than ANYTHING ELSE ON THE PLANET in a hypothetical world, then something is very wrong.
Some more ideas:
CIA Director POTUS Baseball Player Porno star
^You're right, it may be pathetic. But if they really like finance, I don't see a problem with it. I have a strong interest in the law so I picked Wachtell. I'd pick POTUS too, but not only am I not US-born, but I rather value my privacy (and money). Same with all the other choices.
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
lol, maybe the truth, but gimme a damn break. A little ridiculous. Working at KKR is most likely pretty great, but I mean there are plenty of things that would be way more awesome.
GM for the Red Sox.
1) 80's Rock God 2) Conan O'Brian 3) AMA Supercross Racer 4) Lobbyist 5) Johnny Drama's Agent
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1) james bond 2) fighter pilot 3) professional eating a la anthony bourdain 4) last man on earth (i am legend)
1)F-1 Driver 2)play for the Brazilian National team in the World Cup 3)CEO of Def Jam or Roc-A-Fella Records 4)be married to a Victoria Secret model 5)CEO of LVMH- I'd be wasted everday from drinking Henn.
"Drinkin' henneseeyyyyy with all mah enemiiiieeeessss"-2Pac in the majority of his songs
these are my realistic goals, and i'll probably reach them once i make enough money as a trader:
a public school teacher. i'll try to be like the teacher from dead poets society. i love to inspire people.
menswear designer.
found my own university. american college education system is shit. (i go to a target school)
having these goals makes wall-street-rejections slightly easier to handle.
You couldn't pay me enough to be the president of the United States or do any job that involves me living under the scrutiny of the media. If I was offered $500 million to be the president of the United States (ESPECIALLY POTUS) for a 4 year term, I'd turn down the offer. If I was offered a quarter of that a year and was allowed to bolt after a year, then I might consider doing it. But all the money in the world can't land me in the White House.
My realistic goal is becoming a corporate associate at a BigLaw (not necessarily Wachtell) and then remaining of counsel after I've been inevitably passed up for partner, because if you were my friend, the first thing you'd realize about me is that I don't ever kiss any ass whatsoever, I just do my work, and well.
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
Did I mention I consider it beneath my dignity to take up political office?
"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
1.) Hugh Hefner
2.) Ron Jeremy
They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the fucking smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby.
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