my dear monkeys. After finally breaking into M&A (almost a 3 year process), I'm still not satisfied. I see that people in my position are making north of 150 base salary (associate), I'm at a 20% discount.. I'm currently in the bottom of Wall street bank tiers (virtually no deal flow, very small team). Would like to start planning moving to a better bank (I think private equity is less likely). What do you think? Where would you start? Head hunters or networking? Is there a "too old" age I need to consider?
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Given we have no idea how old u r idk
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