Is this the ideal pathway in life?

Go to a T30 Bachelor’s

Join the army under a RASP contract - Become a commissioned officer in the Rangers

Get deployed

Become a green beret

Get out of the Army at 30

Do an HBS/Booth MBA

Associate at Goldman/Lazard/Moelis

Transit to PE

Is this the meaning of life?

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So many Type A people always worry about the "ideal path". Funny enough, most successful and happy people take their career on year by year basis where they evaluate how their goals have changed. 

 

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