go out & explore the world or at least the city you live in in all your free time.. maybe attend a music festival, run a marathon, go for a picnic in the park, go on dates.... all the while waiting for a sleep deprived banker to run you over ... or fall on you in his/her suicide attempt as you walk joyfully & unsuspectingly by the building..

 
bearing:
Suicide? This coming from the kid who goes to NYU. Glad they finally put up those barriers in the library.

Oh there are ways to kill yourself here. Last year some freshman killed himself in his dorm. If worst comes to worst, just run out in front of a FedEx van.

"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-

"We are lawyers! We sue people! Occasionally, we get aggressive and garnish wages, but WE DO NOT ABDUCT!" -Boston Legal-
 

Hari kari samurai style - I am an IBD Samurai if I cannot serve my master financial institution I cannot live.

"There is only one bottom line -- how much money you make."

"There is only one bottom line -- how much money you make."
 

i mean, if you cant get credit to over extend yourself in housing anymore....theres still time left and other means.

how about you just go out and get yourself a few credit cards and max those limits? at least you can live the dream of a wall street life before the creditors come calling.

tho after that be prepared to live your every existence in fear and loathing. creditor emails, phone calls, letters, hell maybe even a house visit. the stress gnaws at you from inside out - unless youre lucky you have a heart attack. but thats just cheating. i recommend the slow binge processing of drugs and alcohol. at least youll be unrecognizable to your friends and family at the funeral. gruesome.

hmm. well, the downside tho is maybe the government indirectly bails you out at some point. then youd be like a phoenix - rising from the ashes. to live a new, proud, debt life again!

....but that defeats the purpose. so maybe you choose one of the other selections above. cause attempting financial suicide twice is well, for masochists.

 

I will take what money I have left, go to the strip club and pay for the hottest strippers to come back to my apartment. There we will blow rail after rail, until our noses start bleeding. I will then move on to having intercourse with all of them while pounding a bottle of whiskey. Then, when done sexing the ladies and barely coherent, I will lay on my mattress on the floor (as all of my possessions have been sold for illegal drugs, including my bed post), where I will proceed to mainline the groceries...

Or Ill just get some experience else where and jump in when the market turns around...

 
Mr.Green:

I will take what money I have left, go to the strip club and pay for the hottest strippers to come back to my apartment. There we will blow rail after rail, until our noses start bleeding. I will then move on to having intercourse with all of them while pounding a bottle of whiskey. Then, when done sexing the ladies and barely coherent, I will lay on my mattress on the floor (as all of my possessions have been sold for illegal drugs, including my bed post), where I will proceed to mainline the groceries...

Or Ill just get some experience else where and jump in when the market turns around...

You stop when your nose starts bleeding? That just increases absorption, dude. I bet you don't bang on her period either.

 
OpsDude:

I clicked on the topic title, thought "What a stupid topic," and then see I wrote it myself 6 years ago. Awesome.

self-trolled fucking awesome Upon first glance, Goldie was like, "You're better than this, dude."
heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 
GanciniBelt:

How many regular posters on WSO are even IB anyway? I chose my fate in FP&A

a lot Also, this is a high finance website, not just an IB site. I don't even like that term, "high finance," but how else do you separate us from the schlubs at Fifth Third?
heister: Look at all these wannabe richies hating on an expensive salad. https://arthuxtable.com/
 
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Pursue another passion - surely investment banking isn't your only thought. Do something that excites you. Grow old and excel at this. When you are old and senile, visit Wall Street and flip off the sign. Maybe even take a poo on an institution's stairs. You're old and senile, you can do whatever you want. As you take that poo, reminisce on how awesome and successful your life was because you did something you wanted to do. Maybe you forwent the hours IB requires and started an awesome family and ran your own business. This is your "thank you for making me change my mind" moment, but at the same time the hot, steamy poo still signifies a "fuck you for rejecting me." It's brilliant, and you're proud you stuck it out in life.

 

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