Having doubts about my current path, what should I do?
Background: I'm going into my senior year at a semi/regional target. I only want to work in my regional city, and we have a lot of OCR at my university. My grades are weak for banking (3.2~) but I have three strong summers of finance experience (1 PWM stint, 1 PE shop, 1 AM shop). To make up for my poor marks I've been networking VERY aggressively, meeting at least 1 banker/finance person a day for coffee every single day of my internship. I am confident that I can get first rounds with at least 50%-70% of the BBs due to my networking efforts.
Lately, I've been having some doubts about my ability to perform well in banking. Given my low marks, its going to be a huge uphill battle to get an offer, especially in this market. Then if I do get the job, I'm really going to have to prove myself, and I don't know if I can do that either. A lot of people that I talked to have said its really shitty and that I should "be absolutely sure you want to do this" and I'm starting to have my own doubts. One of the smartest people I know who is starting in BB IBD this September told me he wasn't even sure if he was gonna last the full 2 years, so its gotten me really worried.
I think I could handle the hours and work in S&T and ECM/DCM but I've heard those are even harder to get into, and that those desks got hit even worse than IBD this year. I also haven't networked with anyone in those positions, and I don't think I can get interviews without networking for them first.
FT recruiting season is fast approaching and I don't really know what to do. Should I just keep my head down and apply for FT IBD positions? I'm worried that even if I get an offer, I won't perform well and flunk out like a week into it, especially since I didn't summer at a bank. Should I just recruit for corporate banking/F500/MO roles instead?
Isn't the first question: what do you want to do?
You're completely psyching yourself out. You're solid bro.
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