It's crazy how many connected kids pursue finance!
Like, I never actually realized this until now. I go to a target and among my finance-focused friend-group of about 12 kids, 3 of them have parents who are partners at Blackstone/KKR/Carlyle/TPG including two who are super senior. Two kids have parents who are CEO's of billion dollar + mkt cap public companies. Three of the other ones have parents who are MD's at EB's/BB's in NYC. I just realized this today lmao. These are the people I'll be competing with during recruiting. Fuck me.
what kind of target? like ivy or like duke/chi/nyu
Use them and their connections to get an upper hand over all the tryhards who work hard and don’t have any friends in high places.
I'm not one of the eat the rich types, if you have connections, use them. I just think it's reasonable for the government in the US to take a more active role in helping people out, since the cost of housing, healthcare, and education is becoming to large a burden to bear.
He's trying to make himself seem like less of a liberal cuck since it's known he's nothing but a progressive shilling CS student who's never worked in in a major professional environment lmfao
Breaking: rich people gravitate toward jobs that will keep them rich
Does connected mean your parents aren’t losers?
So you correlate not being a loser with working in finance and being among the top 1%? Money isn't everything. I have plenty of friends with parents worth $xx or $xxx million and have met plenty of partners who're losers to know this is not the case.
What's a loser to you?
Why is that so shocking? More often than not, it's these type of parents that push their kids down that path. They know damn well how hard it is to make it these days (nepotism isn't what it used to be like), and that if you play your cards well, it could lead to a very good life.
With that said, it's been like that for decades. When I was younger, I met my fair share of upper / upper middle-class kids that were interning at boutiques (or even BB banks) and the likes, but had zero interest of being there, and had really no plans to do banking in the future. Typical "Dad said I should give finance a shot, but I have no idea what they're doing. Anyway, he set me up with an interview." deal (dunno how prevalent this is today, again, nepotism isn't really what it used to be)
Pretty common. Worked at a BB and never met a kid from a middle class let alone poor background. People say nepotism is dying but it's alive and well.
Happens in almost every professional-managerial field..
Lost count of the amount of real estate, healthcare, hospitality management, entertainment. engineering, law, finance, academia, pharma science, architecture & construction, entrepreneurial, accounting etc people I know who's parents were also in the field and encouraged them into it.
Lawyers don’t usually encourage their children to become lawyers based on my experience. Most lawyers I meet wish they had never entered law. I’ve even met corporate lawyers making good money who just hate the job. But, they are so pigeonholed and deep in their career that they have no real choice other than to work in law until retirement.
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