Junior Banker: Liking Your Job
I'm pretty interested in hearing your opinions here. Pretty simple question. Do you like your job? Incorporating all aspects of it (money, lifestyle, work culture/environment, interest in the work, etc.) are you satisfied with your job as a junior banker? Why/why not? Also interested in hearing whether you got in through OCR, or had to network your ass off to make it there.
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And me. Usethefuckingsearchfeature
Here's a cheat sheet:
People are smart and motivated, they say "i could've done 'anything'"(aside from being an astronaut etc.), and IBD is not stimulating enough considering the physical / emotional toll. Trading = better than banking but it gets boring after a few years. Sell-side research = bullshit (go with consensus earnings estimates / try not to get fired)
Best jobs are buy-side 50-60 hour week jobs or strategy consulting or starting company or working for startup. Big consulting firms = learning experience but burnout after a few years.
Key takeaways...start learning new languages, learn how to run an on-line business, learn how to beat the system, think about what people need, learn to appreciate simplicity and good design.
Other tidbits...
ii) Doctors tend to like what they do but being on-call sucks. Entrepreneurs are awesome. Corporate law = boring as hell. Other legal areas can be crap or they can be interesting. Using Law degree to work for UN affiliate / international policy = solid. Architecture or design work = happiness in most cases. Photojournalism = happiness and sex in most cases. Professional sports = sex and brain damage in most cases.
Can I have your job? We're just asking stupid questions... right?
jesus fucking christ. the old threads lack useful information to say the least, and even if they did include something relevant, it's a whole new round of analysts in the bullpen since the last one (over a year ago). i didn't ask anyone what to do with my own life, I asked if you liked your own position. lighten the fuck up. amazes me how many people will waste the 30 seconds of their lives to enter a thread and lay into someone they don't know at all. i guess that's all the answer i need.
Sorry brah, wasn't trying to roast ya
Just sharing my observations. I worked in banking - no one likes it.
I have friends in most career areas and the smart, "happy" ones are typically designing, building, or planning stuff, running start-ups, or working for organizations where their decisions "actually matter".
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