How did you know you wanted to move from PE to HF?
It sounds great - better hours, only investing work, no transaction process bullshit, not building inane models, no working with sycophant obsequious money leech advisors, get to form theses over years and be opportunistic and not just buy whatever shit comes to market, etc. All sounds good but feel like I still have no idea what a day in the life is like so hard to get conviction around switching. I don't actually follow public markets so not sure if I truly have to be "passionate" about the markets or if I can just treat this like a job like PE and do it dutifully but if it isn't the bees knees, that's ok too. How did you know / get certainty? Do you need to be a markets junkie to work in HF or can it just be a job you work hard at / dutifully?
I don’t want to be the best, I just want to have a reasonable career
Then stick with PE. In the public market, either you make money or don't, and you are reminded that fact every second.