I just read a post about someone who left banking to become a police officer and it got me thinking about other odd destinations post-IB. PE, corp. dev, consulting, etc. are obviously some of the more common landing spots, but I'm curious to hear about people moving to blue-collar jobs or switching to a completely different field.
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