After seeing a recent thread in the IB thread of happiness in IB and if you were just graduating. What job positions would be be considering if you had to do it all over again?
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I’m in repe, would have done tech or consulting
Would do the same thing, it hurts so good...
AM, corporate finance at a larger company I'm interested in, finance/strategy at a tech firm/unicorn
Work and happiness are very individual but I feel like so many people choose IB solely because it's the default prestige job. I genuinely like finance but if I had to do it over again I'd skip IB and try to do similar work in a more reasonable way.
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