The Bankers Aspirations v. The Bankers Truth

The Bankers Aspirations

I want to be the biggest finance pitbull around. Just a vicious Gekko-like mother fucker, a real pitbull. I want to shout orders, booze it and fuck hot chicks. I want to piss on Donald J. Trump -fuck him. When I walk past Trump I want him to look down. I want Larry Kudlow to start his show saying: "greatest story never told, blah, blah, blah, [name here] is under investigation by the SEC for an elaborate derivatives scheme from which it he earned an estimated 200 million." I want Frank Quattrone to look like Sally, the stay at home mom from Greenwhich. I want a permanent legal team, no forget that, I want a whole section of Cravath devoted to me. I want to fuck hot chicks with fake tits. I want to be driven around in a Bentley. I want a Gulf Stream V, I want a security detail, I want the world to know I run the world. I want Bush asking me what to do, I want Paulson at my beck and call, I want DLJ aggressive dirt bags dispursing my shit bonds. I want to be a philanthropist. I want George Soros to clean my toilets in search of opportunity. I want to run ESL investments into the ground. I want to run and own shit. I want to be the man.

The Bankers Truth

I am a VP making 500 a year. I work non stop. I am divorced, my wife took off with the pool boy after she got 2 mil from the divorce -the judge was some Womens League bitch. I am overweight, ugly, and an alcoholic. I just got back from London where I paid for sex. I am a disgrace. I will never make MD b/c I suck. I went to an ivy and this is the shit i get.

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Don't worry, you're not alone. There are a lot of ppl who are a lot worse off than you. And for all the aspirations that you can't achieve, I'll achieve them for you.

 

The people who plateau at VP, never making MD, are the ones who stop working insane hours once they make half a million a year. It's easy to work 90 hours per week when you live in a hovel and have no family, but gets harder once you have the option of living well.

 

Yes, you can be madly in love, filthy poor and unhappy. Conversely, you can be filthy rich and lonely. There is an equilibrium somewhere, and all I know is that IB doesn't help you find it. In order to find it in IB you have to be rational and grounded. The gentleman above is in that situation b/c of his expectations. You should strive to be the fuckin man, but don't let the aspirations consume you. Understand that IB is time consuming and full of stress. You need to find motivation other than money to make it in IB. If you only want money go into trading.

 

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