Which industry is genuinely cool?
By cool, I mean interesting and neither full of SJW (tech) nor with bad press (pharma, oil).
Does it even exist?
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I don't personally consider law interesting, and it's not really "corporate".
Corporate Law is pretty corporate.
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Telecommunications. Left financial services and love it here. None of the SJW, but you get a blend technically heavy colleagues. CS has been all the rage here in CA, but there's a heavy set of high intelligence left in hardware which is refreshing to see firsthand
Were you asked telecom specific questions during the ib interview or was it general?
Oh I'm not in IB anymore. I was in a coverage group focused on telecommunications / semi's equipment and foundries. There were no telecom's specific technicals for getting the IB job. It was a tech coverage role where I slotted into the hardware sub-sector.
I was talking about my current role. I've left IB and now I actually work in telecoms industry. I run a down stream semi's equipment manufacturer.
Is it growing though? We lost SO much money on Frontier, and with the T-Mo/Sprint merger it feels like there are very few players now. S&P/MSCI even decided to drop it as a GICS sector for Comm. Svcs.
Good questions, but the question of "is an industry growing" is honestly one of the biggest misnomers of all time. It's often asked by fin services guys (ie consulting, IB, buy-side). As an owner operator, it's up to me to follow the cliche of "skating to where the puck is going to be"
Do I care that if the overal industry I'm in shrank from 70 billion to 68 billino last year? No becasue I own a very small fraction of that market share as a whole. I'm at the stage where I'm consolidating other companies and trying to grow market share. If i were apple, i'd be worried if the smart phone market starts dipping at a 3% CAGR. If I'm a no name dude selling 500k smart phones a year, I'm not so worried.
Put another way, as a private company I'm not going to complain if my k-1 distributions this quarter were 1 million versus 1.1.
Beer industry.
Can confirm.
Medtech has a lot of the pluses of pharma (focus on innovation, smart colleagues etc.) without the same bad rep imo
Real estate
University Research, Economics\finance, Technology, Health,
Real estate is the most alpha
Financial sponsors maybe or fig, I think telecom is interesting because it’s old but undergoing massive changes at the same time just like healthcare
Industrials is OK, consumer retail is interesting also tbh for obvious tangibility reasons and changes happening now
Agree with this (minus fig)
Financial Services
HVAC is a cool industry, can also be a hot industry. One day you’re fixing an air conditioner, one day you’re fixing a heater.
What? HVAC is the most boring thing you can do. Witht the same mechanical engineering degree, you can make jets, missiles, cars, and all sorts of crazy cool shit.
dumbass
You bastard. I was just glancing through this thread to make sure no one else said this before posting the same thing. Damn my timing.
Real estate, food and beverage, automotive, and aerospace seem pretty cool. Defense could be added, although some people have negative thoughts about the military.
Based on your criteria, aerospace probably fits
Private Military Contracting. Probably as close you can get to a classic action movie/video game type job out there.
Pretty cool indeed but they mostly hire operatives, not executives.
Mine, EU Power Trading
FIG is cool. Complex, high barriers of entry, requires good understanding of regulations but if you understand them well there is a lot of money to be made in the space given it's scale. Sure people that jerk off on PE exits may not like FIG as much (and even then now you see some Banks/Insurance/AM/Fintech/Leasing LBOs/Sponsors activity) as it's a niche but being in a niche can be a good thing - you are an expert where you are almost necessary!
defense contracting. Work on tech the public wont know about for years for reasons they'll never know.
leisure & gaming
p0rn
HVAC
The one where one of the mascots is the camel
Very bias personal view, but pharmaceuticals and biotechnology are one of the coolest industries out there. The bad press is mainly focused on the US and even there, it is a fair mix of pharmaceutical companies increasing their prices, but also insurance plans not covering/restricting access to certain drugs. The science is one of the most interesting parts. Not sure how much of that you get to experience in IB, but it is an industry worth looking into a bit more.
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Energy tech is super interesting
Not industry, but probably management consulting at Bain
Why’s that? Any reason you single out Bain and not Mck/BCG?
Music and sports maybe?
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