I'm a senior at a good college, have a great job with a great firm lined up, and I've always been ambitious when it comes to work / career / college athletics / life experience etc. I have done a bunch of internships and network well and generally live a fun life outside of work/studies. Despite all of this, I have this weird feeling that my apathy for school (I've always been a very very average student) will translate to a lack of effort when it comes to work, when work becomes the thing that dominates all of my time. I've always been a high performer in internships and what not, but those are 10 weeks with a defined start and stop, and I understand that the marathon of a career is much different and will feel at times similar to the long march of schooling in some ways.To be clear, I don't think I'm not capable of doing well in school or for that matter my future career, I just have never cared enough to put in the effort required to get straight A's, and despite my actual interest curiosity and passion for business and finance this will translate into my career.Anyone else a mediocre / average student? Any stories of these types of people succeeding over long periods of time?(Part of this is the senioritis talking, but I think I've felt this way for quite a while)
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well the main difference between school work and real work is you get paid in the latter. sometimes a lot of money depending on what you do. If you already have a FT offer then I would just chill and crush it when you start. academia is dumb and barely translates to real life anyways, its all conceptual. Think about it... when are you ever going to have to write out a DCF on paper or be forced to memorize CAPM or the black scholes model
tl;dr money is the deciding factor in a lot of things we want/dont want to do
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