Will Lawyers always be cooler than Bankers?
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on 1/1/13 at 1:04pm
I remembr one time telling a girl I worked at a top bank, and she assumed I was a bank teller.
You say you're a lawyer and people instantly associate that with power. Kids want to be lawyers when they havent even reached HS - not sure about bankers. Think people love to hate Bankers but they love to want to be lawyers/doctors






The public's idea of a lawyer
The public's idea of a lawyer is a suave guy in a suit, running around locking up bad guys and defending civil liberties while putting evil corporate guys in jail and saving the environment.
In reality, they are spell checking a document that was written to support a deal that you worked on. They're using Lexus Nexus to look up cases that support your client's patented technology while you were instrumental in your client's acquisition of a supplier of raw materials in Cambodia that were used in such technology.
Don't sweat it.
If you're talking about girls at bars: the women who chase money know the difference between a banker and a lawyer. The ones who don't care as much about money can't tell the difference and don't really care either way.
Hope this helped.
If you think that telling
If you think that telling some chick that you "work at a top bank" will make blood start flowing down to her sex hole, then it will be a lot more than lawyers that are cooler than you.
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Short answer: No Long answer:
Short answer: No
Long answer: Hell no.
Lawyers fight crime. Bankers get rich taking a cut from someone elses work.
CNBC sucks
"This financial crisis is worse than a divorce. I've lost all my money, but the wife is still here." - Client after getting blown up
Doubt Suits has made it
Doubt Suits has made it easier for Bankers.
At least you don't walk around telling people you're a Private Banker.
I tell lawyers the changes I
I tell lawyers the changes I want to see and then I go home. And I also earn more than the associate making the changes and I didn't spend three extra years in school.
Corporate lawyers, at least for the first few years, are nothing more than glorified copy editors. Moreover, while bankers work for clients and PE/HFs work for investors, lawyers work for *everyone*.
So no, lawyers are not cooler. Not that bankers are cool.
Unless you're David Einhorn,
Unless you're David Einhorn, you're probably not cool if you do any of this stuff. At least, based on your job alone.
Also, any girl with anything is not gonna drop her panties cause you work for a "top bank."
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law is probably as boring as
law is probably as boring as it gets lol
lol @ the amount of people on
lol @ the amount of people on this website that think girls care about your college/job. its the money as a result of those things that they care about. and really nice cars.
ltohang: lol @ the amount of
lol @ the amount of people on this website that think girls care about your college/job. its the money as a result of those things that they care about. and really nice cars.
The type of women that you would get just by having a Porsche isn't really the long-term gf type. They're more for short-term entertainment types.
Many of really nice girls do care about the guy's career/ intellect/ personality/ work ethic, etc. It's not just about your dough.
Every lawyer I've talked to
Every lawyer I've talked to is envious of I-bankers. Higher salary, less school debt, much better exit ops. After talking to several lawyers, I've come to the conclusion that I would never want to become a lawyer.
IvyGrad: Every lawyer I've
Every lawyer I've talked to is envious of I-bankers. Higher salary, less school debt, much better exit ops. After talking to several lawyers, I've come to the conclusion that I would never want to become a lawyer.
Especially the guys who went Biglaw. They work the same hours as IB nerds while making far less money, and have to burn three years of their lives in law school (those loan paybacks must be painful).
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Every lawyer I've talked to is envious of I-bankers. Higher salary, less school debt, much better exit ops. After talking to several lawyers, I've come to the conclusion that I would never want to become a lawyer.
Especially the guys who went Biglaw. They work the same hours as IB nerds while making far less money, and have to burn three years of their lives in law school (those loan paybacks must be painful).
This. I actually know a guy who quit his job at a large NYC corporate law firm this year. He went to my undergrad, then Harvard Law. Worked at a V10 law firm. (top ten largest law firm) He was a 4th year associate.
He told me that the biggest reason he quit was due to uncontrollable level of resentment he felt against his situation, where he had to work for bankers or guys in buyside, usually working same hours, for 50-60% of their pay. And, the fact that he had to stay in school far longer and had to incur 200k law school debt.
Also, he mentioned how most lawyers have really shitty exit ops compared to I-bankers or consultants. That's one really important reason many people should really plan on going into finance over law. Big law firms have up or out policy, where after 6-7 years and if you don't make partner, you're shown door. Unlike I-banking or consulting work experience, lawyer job experience isn't as valued for as many employers, so lawyers have very limited exit ops. Also, the fact that there is a serious over-supply of lawyers in the job market don't help this situation.
IvyGrad: ltohang: lol @ the
lol @ the amount of people on this website that think girls care about your college/job. its the money as a result of those things that they care about. and really nice cars.
The type of women that you would get just by having a Porsche isn't really the long-term gf type. They're more for short-term entertainment types.
Many of really nice girls do care about the guy's career/ intellect/ personality/ work ethic, etc. It's not just about your dough.
Wait... so if a girl would get with you because you went to Harvard vs. UT Austin or Goldman Sachs vs. Wells Fargo is a long term gf type?
just putting it out
just putting it out there....i would have loved to have been a lawyer for a couple of years, but only under the condition that i could then move to banking once i'd got what i wanted out of the experience
IvyGrad: ltohang: lol @ the
lol @ the amount of people on this website that think girls care about your college/job. its the money as a result of those things that they care about. and really nice cars.
The type of women that you would get just by having a Porsche isn't really the long-term gf type. They're more for short-term entertainment types.
Many of really nice girls do care about the guy's career/ intellect/ personality/ work ethic, etc. It's not just about your dough.
You obviously know squat shit about women. As the song goes- girls just want to have fun. Really, that's what 99.99% of people of either gender want. That requires looks, personality, and money. Things like career, school are just proxies. At the most there are some jobs that make you interesting to girls- but banker isn't one of them- especially not with all the bad will associated with it post-2009. Most hot girls simply don't find finance interesting- just a place for greedy assholes.
That said- its not that hard to find quality women in NYC given that they are way more single successful women than single successful men.
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