My dad can't get my a HF job what should I do?
I go to a semi / non target liberal arts school and a lot of my friends dads are able to get them jobs and internships on the street. My dad doesn't own a hedge fund or work in finance so he can't get me a job in it.
He can get me a job / internship doing marine biology and like studying the oceans, but I want to work in a hedge fund, PE or financial company.
I was able to get an internship doing PWM but it seems you need to have rich parents and have access to country clubs to recruit customers. I don't think I would be successful at it.
I get so jealous that kids who are less smart than me can just get jobs at top funds and banks easily. my schools career center said to keep trying and eventually I will break in. But the person who works in the career center is like a few years older than me and has only worked at the school before...
Easy. Just get a new dad.
That's elite problem solving right there
You can't choose your dad, but you can choose your daddy
If you think smartest people always get the best jobs and make the most $$$, life is going to be a giant wake-up call for you.
Your dad can get you a job doing marine biology? Great, there's an arbitrage! Some of your friends with dads at hedge funds won't be interested in finance. So make a trade -- ask your dad to give your friend a marine biology job, and the friend's dad will give you a hedge fund job.
Better yet -- why stop at one trade. Short your dad's marine biology job to go long a job from a 2nd tier fund owned by your friend's dad. Then find some kid who's dad is at a top tier hedge fund but who wants to move to a different city to be with his girlfriend or whatever, and trade your 2nd tier offer in the right city for his 1st tier offer in the wrong city. Next find a kid with *two* parents at a hedge fund, and trade your offer for both of his offers -- keep the offer from his dad, but sell the extra offer from his mom for cash. You can be a market-maker of job offers from your friend's dads, trading these job offers on your campus and earning a commission on each one.
thats insane LOL. but the trading of a marine bio job for an entry level finance job at my school actually seems pretty doable.. the other stuff related to like setting up an entire portfolio of job trading seems over the top
The fact you can't tell this comment is satirical speaks volumes to your intelligence and ability to eventually make money for a hedge fund
Truly an all-time comment.
But why stop there, don’t bother with HFs, all they do is trade equities/forex/other bs. You can make a much more profitable career trading JOBS. Imagine yourself being the pioneer of a brand new trading strategy-being your own boss, ushering in a new era of wisdom, having countless books and articles written about you.
The world is your pearl, and like all successful people, you just have to milk your daddy dry.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Massive transaction costs and highly illiquid trades tho
Take the marine biology internship, absorb as much knowledge as you can. Then market yourself as the go2 expert in the marine biology sector, research the shit out of marine biology stocks and then interview. That is how you market yourself to get that HF position. You will have MMs and SMs competing to hire you. Good luck.
no hedge funds invest in anything marine-bio related though. most of the people who go in to marine-bio hate capitalism
Can't tell if this is a serious post, but most people in HF I know are actually extremely smart, and made it entirely on their own. So the perception that you somehow need a "rich dad" to break in or be successful in is just false.
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