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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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