Meeting someone you’ve never met before and finding out they work in IB is triggering
As the title says, meeting a new person and finding out they work in IB puts me in fight or flight mode. It’s like this sudden primal urge of anxiety, fear, jealousy, competitiveness and maybe even panic. Even though I’m in M&A myself, I can’t help but feel threatened and would immediately distort my view on that person, irrespective to what they’ve said to me up until that point. It’s such a strong, negative feeling that I can’t describe and want to suppress. The only other thing that comes up as triggering as this were the actual traumatic incidents I had as a child. I know this isn’t therapy, but I still can’t understand why this feeling is so unnecessarily exaggerated?
Also it’s not that deep just asking if anyone else feels like this smh
Seems like your group/bank is not considered prestigious as much as you want to work there, so you are afraid the other banker works at Evercore or JPM M&A and looks down on you.
Probably, but it applies to everyone regardless of the bank
And yes I am in a lesser MM bank
I honestly thought your bank would be far worse than Jefferies. I think you should change your mentality, otherwise, you’ll be miserable even if you work at GS or CVP.
where do u work i need to contextualise how crazy this is
Jefferies
I have zero faith in anyone born after 2000, this is nuts
old
Congrats on KPMG M&A Tax!!
Say what you want
Sure you are buddy
Lol I am, believe it or not
Looks like you’re doing pretty bad yourself lol
you are a sad person. i feel bad for you. change. read fiction. read philosophy, history, etc. go outside. touch grass. jfc
Cool yeah I’ll do all those things with the zero time I have on my hands already. Getting overworked is one thing, hating on everyone else in the industry is another
A reflection of yourself
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