Quit an awesome job in London to make it in New York
Hi all,
This doesn't sound like much of a 'situation' but it is. Here's where I'm at:
I've got a great job lined up on an asset management grad scheme, due to start in September. Worked my ass off to get it and I'm pretty lucky to have it.
But... it will mean staying in London. My life ambition all the way through uni was to get the hell out of the UK as soon as I graduate. Now I've graduated and I'm still here... tied down by the promise of this job.
I don't think I can be happy living in London. Call it a complex or whatever, but it just isn't the place for me. I want to get out to the US, ideally New York.
How bad are things in the US? Are there jobs? (I'm not a oxbridge / lse grad, far from it)
Am I an idiot to turn down this opportunity and try to make it in America? (first step being acquiring a visa... no easy feat!) In an unusual display of emotion from a would-be financier, my heart is pulling me that way.





You...are...crazy.
You...are...crazy.
Don't bother, at least finish
Don't bother, at least finish the grad scheme, get some experience and then move over later? What is the firm, are we talking shroders/threadneedle level?
Yes, you're an idiot. Keep
Yes, you're an idiot. Keep the job, get some experience. Important thing is keep looking and build contacts.
As an Oxbridge grad who
As an Oxbridge grad who eventually went back to NYC...
Stay in London for now, finish your graduate programme, and then come over. The AM job market in NYC is rough right now, even if you were from Oxbridge / LSE.
It's funny. It doesn't matter
It's funny. It doesn't matter where you are the world, you still want to be somewhere else. The grass isn't always greener. The fact that you want to leave the coolest and most happening place in the world and let's face it, the centre of the universe, makes me wonder
I moved to NYC with no job, I
I moved to NYC with no job, I made it. But then again I never had to worry about money....
Follow the shit your fellow monkeys say @shitWSOsays
timothy0 wrote: It's funny.
It's funny. It doesn't matter where you are the world, you still want to be somewhere else. The grass isn't always greener. The fact that you want to leave the coolest and most happening place in the world and let's face it, the centre of the universe, makes me wonder
When did London become the center of the universe?
1/2 of the WSO Bash Brothers
"Licensed to Ill It"
We all know Bro J did it...
You are an idiot for 1)
You are an idiot for
1) wanting to move to NY when you don't have a job that is waiting for you in NY
In order for you to get a work visa, you will need to have a job already. If you come without a work visa, you will need to find a job once you get there and have the employer sponsor you. The employer might not want to sponsor you and it will take you month to get any sort of work permit.
2) stay where you are and get the experience
3) Save money, network, than lateral in the US
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Irrelevant question,but Mike
Irrelevant question,but Mike S,are u British?