Been scrolling through LI recently, wondering why mfs have IB experience before even graduating hs. Has competition always been this crazy or is this just a trend that's been occurring over the last 3-5 years or so?
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You have “stats” kids raised by tiger moms who think they deserve to get into Harvard with a 1560 SAT because god forbid colleges look at other metrics.
It’s spilling over into finance. Ironically, most of them are soulless drones that will bore the bejesus out of you with their utter lack of personality.
That’s why they’re all online.
They're also the ones who leave the quickest from personal experience. To spend 80 hours a week doing something you have to be pretty passionate about it. If you're only doing this because you were told this was the path you'll get pretty depressed.
Take that strategy job at the MLB, go back to school and make your own nonprofit, join the army as a officer. Find who you want to be. You don't need billions to be happy. There are many people who live their lives lower middle class but are happy in the end. Be someone you can wake up in the morning and never think about why the fuck you're doing all that you are. And if its finance in the end, well thats your calling friend.
Be content over prestigious. And fuck your family's expectations.
Hey man, I came across a few of your posts on other AA threads a while back. There seems to be racial undertones to this comment and a few other ones you've made. I have a good feeling you are a diversity hire/AA admit and seem to be carrying an inferiority complex. No shade since I would also take full advantage of those programs if they were available to me but to come out and claim that a different racial group are "soulless drones with a lack of personality" simply because they outperform on average seems a bit racist
Note, the guy also has 3x more MS than SB as well, which granted is honestly impressive.
To his or her credit there are plenty of kids with loaded resumes who turn out to have no personality come internship time
Unfair to paint any whole group (racial or otherwise) with that brush but nevertheless there is some truth to the statement and honestly it’s something our bank has been trying to navigate for past several years
You good bro?
It gets worse every year because timelines get earlier every year. If you’re landing the job you’re going to have after graduation as a sophomore, it makes sense to start thinking about it in high school and trying to set yourself apart early enough…
not even joking when i say this i saw this kid from my specialized high school do IB SA at jpm nondiversity their JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER like how tf is this even possible
d a d
for sure the private bank. got to be smarter than that kid
It's not. It was likely some wealth management or other back office related role. Probably was Chase and wasn't even JP Morgan.
Just blatantly untrue, more than likely was PWM or private bank; dad / dad’s friend works there and let the kid follow him around the office and get him coffee for a summer.
It’s amusing that this generation of juniors simultaneously catches flak for being the most ‘interested in finance at a very young age’ hardos but also gets characterized as the laziest, most entitled underachievers who don’t want to grind in office like they did back in the good ole days
They care most about flexing the logo and title to their HS and college classmates on LinkedIn and, for most of them, it ends at that.
100% agree with you on this. Most of these boomers would have zero chance of getting into these competitive schools / programs today.
A large number of these boomers who complain are pure nepotism hires, whereas today there’s much more merit involved in that you generally have to be well-liked, technically strong, perfect resume, etc., given how hard it is to break in. Hell, even the diversity hires had to get through a lot, given that many - but not all - had to overcome many obstacles just to get to college.
Then again, boomers gonna boom with their ludicrous perspectives.
There are high school and A Level programs, but they tend to just be short insight programs that essentially contribute ntg of worth to the student. I don't find these kids to be particularly smarter or more skilled than people who didn't (have the chance to) go thru these programs. There are also plenty of students who leverage these school experiences to get Spring Weeks and SA and subsequent FT IB roles tho, so YMMV
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