SWE sucks compared to the NBA if you’re athletic

Rookie players in the NBA make $1.2mm+ starting, playing basketball 40 hrs a week. So over triple the pay for the same hours Imao.

Pay goes up to $10-40mm by age 30 lol. I also heard boxing and soccer can pay even more.

 
Funniest

Career mobility is also great I hear. 

Plus if you don't want to work, I was talking with the NBA equivalent of a top bucket analyst (think Iverson/Jr.Smith/McGee), and they said if you don't want to practice (complete deliverables) you don't have to. He's retired now, so things might have changed but another young analyst (Simmons/Holgrem/Banchero) said that you can easily sit out playoffs  (fire drills) with no repercussions.

 

Hey, is nba recruiting heavier on behaviorals or technicals? I think I have my technicals down by going thru MJ career highlights 23 times. Any advice on networking? Ppl there seem hard to reach. Been DMing 300+ ppl, even including their wives& secret links but had no success so far. Am i screwed?

 

As a SWE at a fintech in NYC, it's been an extremely rough time for me. I can barely afford clothes, rent, or even food. I wish I had pursued literally any other career, I would even be down to be a retail worker. Didn't realize how puny the salaries were in this field, even after I had to go through such an incredibly grueling interview process :(.

 

can't tell if this is serious among the sea of joke/banter comments

 

Professional sports suck compared to collecting an inheritance if you're a trust-fund child. Inheritances can range all the way up to the billions with zero hours of work required. That's like 10x more than professional athletes make for way less hours. 

Dividends on the inheritance can bring in a recurring 3-10% annually immediately lol. I've also heard marrying rich can pay even more.  

 

KD to the Suns? Clearly your MD is pitching for the sake of pitching. No way that happens.

 

lol what Berkeley?  I can see USC and maybe Stanford though.

 

This is pure cope, just admit SWE is better IB and move on. I'm in IBD myself, at an EB you guys probably drool over, and I wish I did SWE instead (studied STEM at an Ivy). Many of my friends are making VP-level salaries on 30-40 hrs a week only a few years out of college. A buddy from HS made 500k last year--3 years out of college--working 40 hrs a week, and this was as a SWE at a HFT shop, so no startup paper money BS. The future is in tech and tech-adjacent fields, not in formatting powerpoints.

 

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