Is Banking Worth It In 2021? The Definitive WSO Poll
The title says it all. With all of the debate around banking and analyst burnout I thought I'd put this together and have a larger scale poll that isn't limited to just the comments. If you believe investment banking is a good career path (as in, you would be willing to do it here in 2021), give this post an SB. If you are currently in the field or have worked in the field, mark it as helpful. If you are a student or have never worked in banking, mark it as funny. If you think it is NOT worth it, as in the cons outweigh the pros, give it MS. If you are an analyst, mark it as not helpful. If you are associate or above mark it as low quality. If you are a current student, mark it as inaccurate. And if you work in finance but not banking, mark it as spam. I think this should be a cool idea to see how WSO as a whole feels. Let's keep this honest (don't answer like you're a fucking VP when you're a prospect). Also, feel free to comment and/or debate your thoughts (I know there was a recent thread similar to this). Hopefully enough people voice their opinion through many bananas and monkey shits.
Look, do what the fuck you want. Stop trying to make life decisions based on what a fucking forum thinks. Read some threads in which people talk about their experience in IB, and then make up your own mind.
I already know that I'm not going into banking, I was just curious what WSO as a whole thinks.
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People nowadays have more information than ever on what jobs entail. If you want to go to IB, do it. You know the comp structure, the exit opps, and a realistic idea of the job. If you don't, that's fine too. Don't do something its because it's what you think someone else think you want to do.
Just post a doodle poll / Google sheet. The decision tree you’re describing has some overlap and missing demos.
Was your dad not pulling out worth it? OBVIOUSLY NOT
This dude goes on the IB forum and tells everyone to give him SBs if they think their career choice is worth it. That’s low key genius lol
this is like the Twitter “polls” where it’s “like for option a, retweet for option b”. People are dumb af
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