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Equity Research has better hours and lifestyle, and slightly less pay (at least at the entry level). Only caveat would be when its earning season. Then it gets real busy.
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er is probably not the best place to start a career right now....
it sounds like OP is a freshman so I think by the time he gets an internship/FT offer the markets should have more than stabilized.
he's a high schooler according to his other thread.
As for OP, I think you'll find that for almost every role with compensation "competitive" to IB, competition will only be higher (and less visible). In other words, IB analysts are reasonably smart and if there's a role that pays well and offers good progression, they'd be gunning for it too. I think that as a high schooler, you should spend your time researching each role in finance (there's info on virtually every finance role in this forum) and figuring out what you'll enjoy. That'll set you up much better than this whole darkhorse analysis.
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