Is IB really not the best for people of high intelligence
I know I sound like an egomaniac but as a higher school who’s looking at it as a possible career choice, is it really that much non critical thinking, soulless task grind?
That's literally all it is. Arts and crafts, Excel repetition, and testing your ability to be spoken down to and abused.
Investment Banking is especially horrible because it takes otherwise intelligent, high-achieving students and drains them of their spirit and creativity. We've probably lost out on a lot of innovation because promising people have gone into Finance.
Sounds like someone couldn’t get into finance
Yeah I mean I’ve got >$100bn in deal volume from BB M&A, a couple years of PE, and still work a strategic function at a BB, but if it makes you feel better to believe people aren’t capable of thinking critically about their chosen vocation unless they failed to achieve it, go for it.
I don't care.
I would learn to write coherently before I start to question whether I’m too smart for anything.
ik it’s pretty bad, i’ve been working on a lot of different stuff with my company and school
There are more cerebral pathways that pay much less.
In IB, you have to deal with insufferable people above you who aren’t as smart as you and only have seniority because they took abuse longer than you. That part can kill your soul.
Thats true for most jobs tho not everyone stays around based on merit
Money
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