Serious Would You Rather

Would you rather retain all the prestige of your current high finance job but take a 15% haircut on comp (carries over as you progress, also scales with your future comp), or lose all prestige (women magically equate you with a construction worker, janitor, accountant, RBC kid, garbage man, everybody thinks you're a shitty blue collar/back office guy), but keep current comp?


If you're in an unprestigious industry (back office, tech, blue collar, lowly white collar), how big of a % paycut would you take to instantly get all the benefits of PE MF/EB IBD level prestige?

 

Money is Prestige

"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
 

There's a huge difference between blue collar and back office.  Telling a random person you work at Goldman Sachs, even if it's the back office, is going to sound much more prestigious than saying you're a factory worker.

 

Serious question, do these college kids really think women give a crap what bank you work at? Like where is this information coming from?

I don’t understand how someone can be college educated and truly believe that a well adjusted woman cares if you work at Goldman or Baird.

Then again, I imagine the non-virgins are too busy having sex than to post jackass questions. So we have some self selection bias going on here.

 

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