Genuinely asking for advice

I really need help and just wanted to know what happens if I don't get into IB? 

I've put in so much effort to learn about this industry but if I never get in what's the point? It's just a waste of time.

This is the last year I can apply before it's too late. In the UK you can't just do an MBA and go into IB. There's no structured pipeline like there is in the US.

What am I supposed to do if I don't get in? Would this be the final opportunity for me to get in? Are there any alternatives in the UK?

Serious replies only I'm tired of trying to explain I'm not a troll but just someone who is fed up of being rejected and looking for ways to get in.

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That's the original plan and I'd hope to stay in the US due to the higher salaries since UK salaries even in 'elite' careers like IB, PE, and Big Law are still pitiful tbh. US salaries are so much better it's not even close lol.

The only issue is I'm a British citizen unfortunately so I wouldn't have the right to work in the US and only a select few banks sponsor so if I don't get sponsored I'm fucked since I'll have to pay off a US MBA loan with pitiful UK salaries.

 

I thought someone offered to do a mock for you – upon which you will be put into an IB process if successful??? I was genuinely happy for you when I saw that!! I wanted to use that as an example of unconventional ways of success; but yet you create a 3rd troll account

 
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What is this, your third account? 

Please, just give up, I'm begging you. The bans are trying to tell you something. 

 

Why do you keep replying if you're not helpful. Just fuck off. You clearly gloat at other people's misfortune. Hope you burn in a hot fire in hell.

 

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