Experience-based career advice

I think that everyone here would agree that the best career advice comes from direct experience.

What’s an important piece of career advice (how to get or succeed at the job) that only someone who has worked in investment banking would know?

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"I sucked a lot of cock to get where I am"

Those who can, do. Those who can't, post threads about how to do it on WSO.
 
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"I sucked a lot of cock to get where I am"

I eat cock for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Yeah that is right. It is goddam delicious.
Too late for second-guessing Too late to go back to sleep.
 
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