non target mentality

has anyone ever broken free from their non-target mentality or are you non target for life?

even if you go on to have the best jobs in the top funds, and even start your own fund.  if your non target are you non target for life?

Do you think having a non target mentality could actually help you succeed more?

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No if you’re a non-target you just have to be depressed and ashamed of your undergrad for the entire career.

wtf is this post lmao

 
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Funny thing is I went through a very pedigreed path but didn’t get to the top rung which still bothers me a little bit. It’s crazy how your mentality changes as when I was in college, all I wanted was a IB job much less at a top firm. What I mean by not getting to the absolute top is I didn’t get into the top groups at MS / GS (TMT, M&A), went to a middle of the pack MF vs. APO/BX/KKR and did not land the Lone Pine / Pershing Square. The point is that there is always someone else that may have gone through a more “prestigious” path and constantly comparing yourself isn’t worth it. Just remember where you came from and don’t let circumstances continue to lift your expectations. It’s just not a great way to live

 

Pro tip, always tell people you go to a non-target your just so sigma cause you made despite the odds bro.

I'm sure that you will continue to ascend the rungs of society even though you couldn't get into some target schools like UVA with like a 25 percent acceptance rate!

 

This is cringe as fuck. No one gives a shit if you’re non-target. Literally all but the most silver-spooned kids were “non-target” at some point. Either by going to a mediocre HS but still making it to an ivy, or by being a MM analyst that makes it to MFPE, or by having a low GPA but making up for it, or by being a late starter to IB that’s older than their associates. 
 

no one fucking cares. What they do care about is the massive chip on your shoulder that you have in response to imaginary slights

 

Hey man you don't get it.

He's the first person EVER from a non target to want to do IB, he's the main character. Theres an imaginary audience coming to get him, you Fucking NPC.

 

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