Stop listening to strangers on the internet

Well, mate, you used biased sentences, and I will try to give my comment as a person who uses WSO already for several months.

1. You said there is no one path. That sentence is correct but WSO community also supports that. It is a finance forum, so naturally people here are interested in finance. It is as simple as that. Additionally, finance itself is huge industry starting from PE ending with Corp development etc. By saying one path I assume you meant "IB>PE>MBA>PE" route. Again, not everyone in WSO followed or follows that path. Also, there are different banks with different groups in it, different PE shops, different bschools. Additionally, no one here orders you to follow that path, it is totally up to you in which direction you want to go.

1. You mentioned "not listen to strangers". Every reasonable person knows that. However, consider the fact that not everyone was at first familiar with the finance industry. In WSO you get the taste of what the finance career options look like. In this forum there are many people who knows and achieved more than me and you, and listening to their advice or at least paying attention to the advice can be helpful. Here, no one tells you do this and dont do that, people just give their own insights, listening to them is up to you.

1. You said toxic forum. I dont know what you meant by saying that but I find people here very interesting. This forum has probably the biggest online density regarding the number of really hard-working and ambitious people who instead of hiding everything to not "advantage to competitors", help each-other. People here talk about real stuff without sugar adding and cliche sentences.