Are there any juniors out there who do not hate their life/regret going into IB?
Preparing for my upcoming SA stint and enjoy browsing WSO in general, but it feels like any IB-related post is 90% from people who absolutely hate their lives/hate IB. Tons of people saying "knew what I was getting into, but..."
I feel like I rarely came across such stark negativity (as bad as some of the posts here) towards IB throughout extensive networking (non-target, also networking with mostly other non-targets), and have actually been relatively excited about the field and find the work interesting. Am I incredibly naive, are the people complaining just the loud minority, both? Not suggesting anybody is whining by any means, simply curious.
How will that affect your perspective of the job, a job you haven't started yet? And tbh, GS survey pointed out exactly what we knew already and rest assured that it's not just GS. Most of the BBs/EBs analysts are going through sth similar. I think WFH is the drop that makes the cup run over and not the hours per se
Plenty of options out of banking
I'm lucky and am dating the cutest girl I've ever dated, and she's in marketing. Her hours are great, always helping me pick up food, looking over me, and we're also having sex like rabbits. I wouldn't be able to have so much sex pre-covid. I love sex, so this really helps keep me motivated, to finish my task as soon as possible so I can fuck again.
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This guy fucks
Honesty parameter : 100%
can i join in? while you work i can fuck her , and than i do your work you fuck her. We all are happy.
Nice chinese wall
howd yall meet
Living the life !
It depends on the person, team, bank, and overall situation. Like I'm actually pretty happy overall. I'm not fucking constantly like that king above, but I have a team I like and a group of MDs I work with who are friendly and seem invested in my development. Good reviews and a good bonus also helped a lot with morale, especially during COVID. The hours can often suck, but everything else seems to be going well enough where it overrides the shittiness of the hours. Plus, pretty happy outside of work. Spending lots of quality time with my family, love my friends, and having a little more sex than I had been six months ago during peak COVID, which is definitely a plus. Even bigger plus that its with someone I actually really like.
As a first year, I can say that the back to back 95+ hour weeks are a real thing and the amount of accounts I'm working on right now is ridiculous. I understand the whole "you knew what you signed up for" argument, and I think it's kind of unfair because I signed up based off of my internship experience which was completely different and probably 10x better than the WFH experience I actually ended up doing. Despite all of that, I really don't regret going into IB at all tbh. I'm not ashamed to say I went into it for the money so that I could pay off my student loans and save up for a house. WFH helped me pay off my loans 16 months sooner than I had planned since I'm staying with parents and putting each paycheck towards my loans. Yeah, the hours suck rn but the people in my group are good and I just trust that better opportunities will open up for me once I've done my two years.
The "know what you're getting into" argument is kinda bullshit imo. You never really know how much work a 100 hour week is until you actually do it.
For sure. One thing saying "Oh yeah I'm fine with 100 hour work weeks, it's only two years", another thing actually working 100 hour work weeks for two years.
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