BB or Regional Boutique?
I have an offer to join FT at a regional MM boutique (not a name you'd know). They do a lot of growth fundraises as well as M&A with most deals being in the €50m to €250m EV range with the occasional €2bn+ deal. They pay like £5k less than the BB on base salary.
I also have an offer for SA at BAML/Citi. This would take place after my graduation meaning I'd have to do a 9 month masters afterwards to fill the gap.
What should I do? I'm quite wary of taking a risk in this economy. My parents also don’t want me to take a risk and just want me to start working.
This is in London.
Thank you for taking the time to read.
Is this a joke? BB all the way.
My dad thinks I’m crazy for giving up a job offer for an internship. It’s hard to explain it to him
You don’t necessarily have to take the gap. We rolled interns we liked onto an Analyst 0 program in between their internship ending and full time starting. Maybe see if you can bullshit the MM Boutique into giving you a start date after the internship ends so you can hedge yourself? Say you want to go travelling after graduation blah blah blah
Pushing the start date was my first thought as well. I tried asking but they said I would miss training which is “integral” to their program.
Any tips on excuses I can use that aren’t travelling?
It’s not just “travelling”, it’s actually volunteering. You have a huge passion for black trans refugees and so are planning on volunteering at a camp that offers race and gender reassignment surgery. If they try and stop you then you’ll go to the press. Watch their HR objections melt away.
If it's Citi, their offer rates are close to 100% (you have to seriously F up to not get the offer) so I would take that.
Tell your parents it's 9 months of missed income for a far better job that would take you years to get to if you had just started working. I get people's parents fund their education, but unless your parents works in IB they doesn't understand the nuances of different firms and should have some trust their kid knows what they're talking about
Can I pm you?
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