Quarter life crisis

I don’t think there’s a whole lot worse than sitting at your desk wondering what you’re doing with your life and asking if it’s worth it while your seniors pound you for updated materials. Can they not give me a second to figure out my life?

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One of those things as a kid you look up to adults thinking they have everything figured out, then realize once you get here that everybody’s flying the plane blindfolded and just doing their best.

 

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genius 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Why do you work in IB? As an analyst, I get it -- optionality to move into other areas. As an associate, you have no excuse except that you get turned on by seniors punishing you

I'd have a quarter life crisis too if I was 26 and working 80hrs a week doing tedious work for miserable seniors who are on their 3rd marriages with kids that hate them

Either don't complain, or find something more meaningful to do

 

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