How to stay sane throughout the IB recruiting process?
Sophomore who will be recruiting for IB this summer. As I am approaching the recruiting process, I feel that it's becoming increasingly hard for me to be normal. Starting from making sure that I ace school-work to recruiting for both summer 2020/1 at the same time to all the networking calls and info sessions with bankers, investment banking is the only thing that I can focus on every day. It's not that I don't have time to do other things, but the recruiting aspect is something that is always in the back of my mind and it makes me anxious. I feel that I'm slowly losing my passion for other things in life. If a conversation is not about recruiting, I feel that it's not worth having. And I feel that I'm losing connections with all my friends and classmates.
I was wondering how you guys did it? Is it just me over-worrying?
Thanks in advance.
Welcome to Investment Banking- this is what happens, it becomes this all consuming process- I was the same way- always thinking about it- whenever I was not doing something productive or geared towards IB recruiting/learning finance that I was wasting time. The only cure is to take a weekend off, focus on your hobbies, hangout with your friends (And DO NOT talk about banking for at least like one day). It's good that you have this focus- your determination will lead to your ultimate success in this career.
nothing wrong with that. it’s not like you going to be recruiting every year. next year should be more chill and you should be able to go back to spending time on your passions. recruiting for junior summer is just temporary, but there is no reason to not go all out for it.
Putting this down before somebody else does, Masturbation. Lot and lots of masturbation.
sounds like you aren’t cut out for IB hoss
This is unfortunately the grind, man. Pre-meds have it even worse with having to worry about med school from the beginning of college until after they find out they got accepted in the beginning of their senior year (unless they take a gap year)
Forget about the competition side of it. Just do your best. Focus on your own inside growth, not titles & offers.
Lol dude this is how it starts. You think working 80-100 hours there will be time for anything else ? It takes time to get used to that mentality and seems like you are on the right path. You’ll be a great ibanker. P.S I feel the same way as you do in a similar spot.
In the same boat, however I still talk to my friends about non-banking stuff all the time as they aren't interested in finance which keeps me grounded. Honestly I think its kind of fun, sending out tons of emails, talking to new people everyday, practicing behavioral in the shower, studying technicals, constantly reading up on new trends. Each time I have a good call or coffee chat, or they offer to pass me on or something I get this rush of dopamine that just amps me up. Plus being insanely busy all the time makes the little free time I do have wayyyy better and I don't think I've felt bored once since I started. This shit is a rush.
Your only priority will be recruiting. Everything else is not worth it. Gym, homework, study, eat healthy, sleep, and repeat.
Enjoy spending the prime years of college staring at accounting and technical books while all your friends are having fun.
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