Most prestigious job opportunity you've ever seen
What is the most prestigious job opportunity you've ever seen someone get or take directly after college?
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MD of Russian Gulag. A connection to national leadership, power over thousands and virtually no compliance department.
Thats fucking insane. I guess the only disadvantages are location, but it’s worth the sacrifice
What about exit ops?
Quite Limited, you either stay there and be recognized for your excellence or moving up to Siberia where all burnt out MD go.
Can confirm. Perks: The entire Adidas tracksuit collection in every color. White Mercedes/ Brabus G Wagon. Gold plated AK.
Comp structure: vary dependent. Are you talking BB Russian mob in Moscow with direct ties to the Kremlin? Or some family office operating in a Tier 3 city (looking at all the Grozny folks on this site)? Assuming BB, take home is in the high 7 figure to low 8 figure, potential equity kicker in specific deals.
The typical route is Spetsnaz -> KGB -> O&G Operations Management. Keeps you well rounded for HVT kidnapping and funneling off oil into different shipments. O&G can be replaced by gun running. CFA (Certified Firearms & Arson) Certificate is a bonus.
Thanks for the confirmation. Extremely helpful stuff.
Damn, this is pure gold.
A close friend of mine from school hustled her way from a MO GS internship into DCM/ECM the following year and converted it to FT. Absolutely busted her ass for 2 years, hit top bucket both of those years, and was brought in as an associate in one of GS top groups. She's currently crushing it there and has her pick of funds if she chooses to leave. A fairly traditional (albeit very impressive) path, but the grit this chick displays is unparalleled to any person I've ever met and it's incredibly motivating.
Crazy stuff
This is super inspirational, would love to hear more details on what she's like as a person and what about her impressed you so much!
She’s hot with an even better set of cannons. Sometimes “hard work” does pay off.
Doubt it, no one is going from DCM to a HF.
Wrong
U silly
mcdonald's fry cook operator this person i'm thinking of was so qualified that he didn't even need to go to college
He’s loving it
😆 🤣 😂
Distant family friend's kid landed a VC gig in Cali. Not exactly sure what it pays but daddy has skin in the game so I'd assume he's doing pretty well.
So a guy goes to work for some dad related venture and this is the most impressive thing you've seen.
You need to change who you hang out with, fast.
Isnt high-finance sugarcoated nepotism?
Woops, typo, I meant "networking."
Well "Impressive" is relative, isn't it? A fat man is impressed by someone in shape... Poor impressed by the rich. Wealthy men might be impressed with others making a little less but working half the hours...
Tony Montana is right...
Are there people in my network that landed a FO gig in S&T / IB? Sure. Do I have family that immigrated here with a few hundred dollars to their name and are now doing extraordinarily well for themselves? Sure. I suppose though that the kid that made it in VC is just unique, so I find it impressive.
Let's not convince ourselves that a very conservative 30 to 40% of people in "high finance" don't at least get a foot in the door by using their connections.
Blackstone Rx
PJT RX nowadays I think you mean
Child of someone rich
KKR PE/ Apollo PE / BX PE / Carlyle PE.
Probably KKR or Carlyle most prestigious
^This. #IvyLeagueBoi
Wow that was an extremely helpful comment, thanks
5th year senior of my fraternity to full time crypto investment expert with hundreds of Instagram followers.
Dude had like a 2.4 and no internships but somehow landed a job as a day trader.
HUNDREDS of Instagram followers
This actually made me laugh.
Thank you for this. You made my day better.
I’ve seen someone go from undergrad to 2yr stint at bank then hedge fund making 7 figures - pretty impressive for mid-20s
the more important question is how long did they last.
That’s a good question. I think he was actually only there 2-3 years as he said he hated his manager. He went out on his own trading his own capital in agriculture.
That kind of story warms my greedy heart
A kid I interviewed for admission to my undergrad alma mater, ended up going and absolutely crushing it. Graduated with like 3.95+ gpa. Joined Silver Lake Partners right out of undergrad.
Is he from Harvard 19'? I think I know him.
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Is that even a job? Most robotics guys or coaches do it while maintaining another job.
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Blackstone Private Equity - only 10 investment professionals (I believe) in the Sydney (Australia) office and he was converted as a summer analyst, crazy stuff.
I know someone who started a PE fund investing exclusively in the country of Georgia (probably with family money, but still impressive). He also went to work for a boutique IB, where he's now a director 6 years later.
One guy from my grad school was quite talented, but it was also a "right place at the right time" thing.
He was doing research on Deep Learning before it took off - around 2010. Then 2012 came, while he was doing his Ph.D, and everyone wanted to do Deep Learning. He was pretty much the expert on this stuff at my alma matter, and they pooled together resources to send him to a leading school on this topic - CMU.
From there, it just snowballed, and he's now making very, very good money as a ML researcher at top tech/data firm.
I'm saying right place at the right time, because most of his peers (that focused on other topics) ended up with $70k gov. research jobs, academia, or similar.
Started my own Hedge Fund.
guy from my class got drafted into the NBA.
IU Kelley?
Ok not finance but girl from my school got a Victoria’s Secret fashion show gig right after school. A few years later now she’s still on the show. VS claims to receive 10,000 applications every year and only accept 30-40 each year.
Goldman who?
not sure if i'd say natural beauty is impressive.She was born beautiful?
Well yeah but 9,999 other candidates are also beautiful. Also they only accept applications through legit agencies so it’s not like us ugly bish can apply too.
Girl from my HS made junior partner at MBB 4 years out of undergrad, absolute beast
Was she open to telling people about it? Did she act humble or arrogant about the job?
I've seen a good bit of stuff in Washington D.C. like getting jobs at the White House or working for someone like a Newt Gingrich. Of course, as a new graduate, you're pretty low on the totem pole but it's still pretty prestigious to be even allowed in the same room as people that are basically running the show around here.
Now the ultimate career route for some of these jobs is fairly uncertain, but if you're into feeling important about yourself (aka 99% of D.C.), you basically can't beat these jobs at the entry level.
I'm from the DC area myself, went to college in VA, and am now back working in consulting in NOVA(arlington). I honestly think the greater DMV area is a lot more diverse than just the K street social climbing putrid scum squad. They all want to feel important but how many of them actually are?
Who hurt you my guy?
Husband of college friend:
Semi-target college -> IB analyst at lower-tier BB (2 yrs) -> Associate in same area at mid-tier bank (2 yrs) -> VP at ultra-elite boutique (3 yrs) -> Director to currently MD at another ultra-elite boutique
MD by 31, not bad.
what does ultra elite mean?
Tobin & Co.
Think Lazard, PWP, Evercore, best of the best boutiques.
So not straight out of college, after years of hard work and changing jobs 3 times??
Well everyone else deviated from the question and there wasn't much shit thrown, so I figured this is the kind of story people were interested in hearing.
These posts are analogies to the quality of this website as are Barron’s headlines to stock market performance.
Janitor at MIT. Unbelievable. I'm in awe at the intelligence and prestige.
Navy SEALs, ended up going with team 6, though don't think he was on the team that took down OBL
Idk how I found this thread, probably out of boredom at the office.
For one, congrats to your buddy, that is the best of the best of the BEST. But I thought that Team Six members couldn't share their team/identity out of secrecy and all of the clandestine shit they are involved in no?
If you’re in JSOC - you can say you’re in JSOC.
You can’t disclose missions or itineraries or classified/secret/top secret info.
Little League All Stars starter (Triple A division).
Dad wasn't even the coach.
See a pretty steady stream of ivy league bros go straight to top PE groups and HFs straight out of college. Some of the tech nerds can make up to 300K starting out working for HFT/Quant funds.
Had a good friend go to the NFL after junior year. My high school ballboy went straight to the NBA as the #3 pick with no college before the rules changed.
Whomst?
Just did like 30 seconds of research on the NBA one and figured it out. Has to be Darius Miles. He's the only high school draftee since 1962 picked at the #3 spot.
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Chief of staff for an investment office of a top global billionaire - x2.
The one I didn't directly 'see' (as it was before my time) I know quite well. After 2 years, he had proved himself enough where the billionaire gave him an 8-digit sum to start his own fund - in his early 20s.
The other one was a close friend in college. Turned down GS/MS to work in the investment office of a guy in the top handful of the Fortune 400. Gets paid IB money to work 35-40 hour weeks, work across all the different verticals in the office/see everything, and ride along to every ridiculous conference.
Know this one guy (still no idea how he did this), got a 0.0 first semester of college, I mean absolutely stellar performance, 12 credit hours, all English speaking professors at a state school right? Comes back the next semester on academic probation like the absolute unit he is and gets arrested for stealing a rival frat's composite. Balls tf out on the local gov with a public defender and walks away with just 10 days in jail. I mean I'm not gonna drop the J-bomb but you get it, Kardashian level lawyerings. Gets out, he's so far ahead of everyone in our class he decides to drop out and become a Fortnite streamer. Currently rocking a 1.93% win ratio. Amazing.
What are his current YouTube earnings?
See, this guy keeps his shit on lock, doesn’t need the public seeing all the cash he’s raking in else they’d be all over his ass to build schools in Africa or something. Dude’s got an accountant for his accountant to write financial statements on the real accountant’s thoughts to make sure he’s not thinking too loud about his earnings. But I got a guy that hacked the WiFi chip on his coffee maker and got me past his VPN blocker, so I figured it out. The fucker rivals Bezos. All-in-all.. he’s down about $350. Cost of an Xbox live membership and 12 months of internet. Crazy.
Have an acquaintance who started off at the GS trading floor and went on to start his own quant fund in 3,5-4 years after joining. Guy isn't even brilliant, but probably the most structured and dedicated person I have met to this day.
Ha, a man after my own heart. Yes, that is the way to go. Work for yourself.
Financial Advisor for Northwestern Mutual... they have unlimited potential compensation wise
Don’t they make you sell stuff to your family?
family, friends, literally everyone you know
haha this is good
Friend of mine was picked in the 1st round of the MLB draft. Got around $2 million signing bonus.
My best friend was the sixth pick in the NBA draft. He got over playing for the Celtics real fast but I still haven't.
Lets be real, when we discuss prestige, generally its about what is most impressive to people when you tell them. With that in mind, anyone getting picked in the first round of a major sport is magnitudes more impressive than some goldman/blackstone kid. All your peers are much richer and you actually live a real baller lifestyle. Not hur dur ima twiddle my fingers on this keyboard for 15 hours a day then drink some alch in my spare time! The thing is that a lot of people on this site go to some elite schools academically that develop few elite athletes.
The exception is becoming MD at a Gulag
I saw one guy become starting PG on the Lakers after 1 year of college... Respect.
I have it on good authority that Ken Griffin had someone in charge of picking blueberries - and only picking blueberries - for the breakfasts.
Name a more prestigious job, you can't.
Most prestigious job? This one you might be either annoyed at or interesting. Went to a school with a reputation for their music business/engineering. Guy in one of the engineering classes has a #1 song on billboard with Drake... He graduated making millions already. Its Tay Kieth btw
1) Presidential speechwriter 2) Personal assistant to David Rockefeller
College friend got a Supreme court clerkship - you literally influence decisions which change the course of history as a 27 year old law grad:
Research suggests that clerks exert a moderate influence on how justices vote in cases, but have "substantial influence in cases that are high-profile, legally significant, or close decisions "Rasputins? Law Clerk Influence on Voting at the US Supreme Court". The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
Not directly, but my friend was really good buddies with the #2 pick of the 2019 NFL Draft (do your research) ... I visited him a lot during college and hung out with the draft pick numerous times. Draft pick was the biggest booze hound, coochie-magnet I have ever seen. Also just chiseled and a generally good looking dude (pause).
Signed his $33.5MM contract this year with a fat $22.5MM signing bonus. F U finance money
Nick Bosa is awesome, an epic alpha male. And he's a Trump supporter, which rocks.
On that note, I'd say Trump caught a lucky break being born into Fred Trump's money. Not everyone can get both mountains of capital and an endless bailout fund.
Knew a guy from IU Kelley who ended up at FT Partners straight out of college
Was this a joke or am I missing something? Don't they hire all their analysts straight out of college?
Not right after college, but I played on a travel baseball team where 3 of the kids won the little league world series and then 4 went on to get drafted for the MLB out of highschool in the first 2 rounds. All of them got over 2M in signing bonus. Theh did a joint draft party at one of their houses which is pretty awesome.
In order of pick 1st overall, 7th overall, 29th overall and then 62nd. The last kid wasn't even comitted to collegeg until his senior year. He put on 25 pounds of muscle and hit like 30 homeruns and they came calling.
It's more money than prestige really but two of my friends got quant trading jobs straight out of undergrad and making $350-500K per annum in their early 20s.
Think two of Citadel, Jane Street, DE Shaw, and Five Rings Capital.
It's fucking great to be a math kid nowadays.
President of the United States
not having to work.
Optiver HFT
My cousin is friends with this guy who is the CFO of a boutique investment bank in NYC at age 27. My cousin says he makes 1.2 mil
Is he a Douche ?
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