What is your quit PE and hit a "corporate gig" number?
Say a corp dev position is offering you $300k right now for 9-7pm, you taking it? I need to GTFO out of PE so bad and am wondering what I should "settle" with or accept.
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Would want to be able to cover the remaining major one-time expenses I foresee in the next few years. Namely things like house down payment (assuming I get out of the city), a car, any near-term medical procedures, and an MBA if it was required to progress at my future company. Outside of that, a 6-24 month emergency fund would be ideal as well, plus maybe some cash set aside for kids’ private school or college funds depending on where I’m living.
$5M and then dipping into corp dev. No real reason tbh but halfway there… hopefully one promotion and one or two lucky carry checks and should be hitting it in 3-4 years
I would take 300k 9-7 corp dev job.
Whats the reasoning? Just curious. Mine is partners seem miserable too and not a life I want + the stress and burnout has been getting to me.
I'm 4 years into PE and while hours have been more predictable than banking, they're about the same if not worse at times, with stress levels significantly higher than you could ever experience in banking just given the fundamentally different nature of the cause/effect of your decisions in a principal investor role vs being in a 3rd party client services job (in my opinion). I don't really see this dynamic changing anytime soon either as your responsibilities only compound as the years go on. I've concluded that you truly have to love the investing process and everything that comes with it and treat the job as your #1 hobby to see the successes people love to talk about in PE (outside of those outlier cases of course). For most high achieving people who enjoy many aspects of finance, are willing to put their time in and work hard (this is where I fall into), at some point you hit a point where you constantly question whether it's all worth it. And if you're doing that, you will eventually hit your ceiling. All this being said, I'll be 28 in a couple months and have accumulated a skillset/drive/network/resume/net worth that have made all of this very well worth it in a very short amount of time and would 100% recommend it to those younger than I, but I am realistic about the future. Maybe I dip out in a year, maybe I stick it out for a few more bonuses before I have a family, or maybe things get a lot better by then and I find a sweet spot in Finance longer term.
All this to say that if somebody knocked on my door tomorrow offering 300k and a 9-7 I would be very hard pressed to turn that down.
This is an amazing perspective and color and helps me inform my decision. I really appreciate it.
Do you mind sharing your current net worth range? Hoping to achieve a similar level of success
about a million
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