What's a chill job (40-50hrs a week, no work after hours) where one can make 300-400k?

What are the options for someone who wants to have more free time and enjoy life while making 300-400k? Ideally leveraging investing experience

Just want to explore some exit options

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I interviewed at one company for a small M&A group in a large company and it was 40 - 50hrs per week for an Associate/VP level for $200K base and $400K in bonus and profit sharing. I've interviewed at hundreds of places and this was definitely the unicorn. The MD was big on work / life balance.

"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
 
toothpickintoenail

You'd have to believe that is a top tier MD if he can emphasize WLB while profit sharing.

That team must be bankers heaven.

Yeah he emphasized that he wanted to treat the people on his team like family. 

"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
 

birdseedcapital

What were your thoughts on that statement?

Largely that he would take care of me and provide for me appropriately. Good work environment. 

"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
 
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TechnoDemon

Did you end up taking the position?? Sounds like it would be hard to say no to

I received a phone call about a week after seeing the MD and he extended a verbal offer. He was excited, I was excited. I said yes and he told me I would start in two weeks. I thought it was a major point in my career.

Then a week later, I got a phone call from him and he said he had to rescind the offer. He told me that someone in another group (asset management) was promised this M&A position by an executive higher than him at the company. He sounded very disappointed and told me there was nothing he could do. Major bummer. 

"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
 

This is true. All of the VPs that I've been surrounded by at F500s are usually putting in a minimum of 50 hours per week (mostly more)... not to mention never being able to truly be away from work while on vacation.

 

Agree with above - corp dev or IR will make this by your late 30s (going with age here since titles are different across companies). Both of those you might have to work occasional late hours but known in advance and nothing compared to IB.

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It would help to know your experience, but the only thing I can tell from your post history is that you have a penchant for fictional thought experiments.

I'd say COO/CFO/Franchise owners (reasonable to assume a certain income level with certain brands). More like 60-70 hrs a week and up though.

 

Operational route with P&L responsibilities. Superstar operators can make good money if they perform well. At my company this summer, the GM of our business line as power in influencing company wide decisions in things such as investing / divesting into certain client regions etc. You probably will get pouched more often too if you developed a reputation of being a strong business line operator in your industry. Some rich execs ($50M+) I've seen visit my MBA program for class lectures eventually took on P&L responsibility rather than driving strategic / financial decisions (ie. consultants / bankers / corp fin etc).

 

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