vegetarian bankers

this may sound really stupid but, I was interested in knowing if it’s bad to be vegetarian to become a banker, just culture wise and to get along further with peers at banks?

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lmao this is great. so I was born and raised vegetarian cuz of Indian/Hindu stuff, but I’m not religious at all so I had no particular rational aversion to eating meat, but I was vegetarian just cuz it’s what I was used to. I started my BB role out of college and for some reason I got invited to a lot of client dinners at fancy places where the only real options were steak and fish dishes. sometimes there was a decent veggie option but I shit you not more than once I literally got handed a steaming dish of assorted vegetables like broccoli, carrots etc. with maybe a sauce on the side. One of these dinners I got fed up with the veg menu options that I just ordered a steak. my MD and VP looked at me with wide eyes cuz they knew I was vegetarian and it was a running joke that I had never experienced the “heaven of a steak” and they wanted to be there for my first. Anyways yea so from that point on I just started eating meat whenever I felt underwhelmed with the veggie option. I’m still vegetarian like 80% of the time in my life but I flex to meat whenever it seems much tastier at a particular place. only for when eating out tho cuz I have no fucking clue how to cook or make meat shit as per my childhood.

anyways just wanted to share that anecdote. no one really cared that I was a vegetarian, just some light ribbing that was at worst maybe the butt of a couple jokes.

 

George Soros is a carnivore of the highest order. Eat a pound of flesh a day unless you want to be a ten tick scalper. I’m only joking. Eat whatever you want. Just please avoid hot pungent smelling food at your desk cos that is the only thing that would bother me.

 

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