Any industries that are as alpha as finance?
Tell me which other industry has people wearing thousand dollar suits (suits=most alpha type of clothing), Rolexes (Rolex=most alpha type of watch) and driving sports cars (sports cars=most alpha type of car) while banging their supermodel wife? Tech and engineering are full of virgin nerds and they don't even wear suits totally un-alpha. Medicine makes you deal with gross, old, dying people and lawyers can't wear Rolexes to court or drive in with their Lambo because the poor people in the jury will be jealous.
Finance is the epitome of an alpha profession, you go through the easiest schooling compared to lawyers, doctors and engineers and then you make the most money, couldn't get more alpha. Apart from oil (you're literally fucking the Earth and getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars alpha af, if only they wore suits) do any other industries compare to the Chad financial industry?
Finance guys are largely risk adverse nerds. Not remotely alpha. Nothing wrong with that.
Really? I saw another user say this, I thought it was the complete opposite. What would you consider the most "alpha" (fuck this word is so corny) profession then? I would say medicine but specifficallysurgery.
military, construction, black market (selling drugs, running mafias)
Entrepreneurship by a mile, military by a mile, service jobs (police / firemen), even sales.
Finance beats accounting though
risk aDverse? hahahahaha - good one
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Nightcrawler is an underrated movie
Hate to break it to you but Rolex is not the most alpha watch brand. Also your perception of what life in finance is like could not be much further from reality.
Edit: I would say being in a Tier 1 Special Forces group in the military (Delta, 24th STS, Seal Team 6) or some sort of clandestine operative (both paramilitary and political) in the CIA/ISA/etc is pretty alpha in its own way. Not really comparable to civilian industries tho, very different worlds.
If you like T1 military group content, you might like Youtube channels like GBRS Group, Slade (SC irregulars), One's Ready, and idk what Forward Observations Group is they put out sick content nonetheless.
Yeah, overthrowing democratically elected governments is very alpha. Screw anyone working in the political arm of the CIA or FSB or other intelligence agencies.
Heard you're looking for Alpha Industries?
Cringeworthy
You're not alpha enough to understand
Good lord you are a loser
Only betas are losers and you could already guess that I'm not a pathetic beta male
10/10 trolling
creme de la creme fighters (UFC/boxing/etc) have all of those things...and they can kick your ass
so I'd say MMA is probably the most alpha job
military also pretty alpha
Any professional athlete has to be at the top of the list.
only if they can fight. soccer and basketball flopping is most definitely not as alpha as a fighter, nor are swimmers, curlers, and as much as it pains me, surfers.
if I had to think of alpha and my choices were khabib, messi, lebron, and tom brady, I pick the SMESH
Also interested in this, my family and I grew up largely elitist and we continue to embrace our advantages and successes. I’d advise you not to disregard tech so quickly; much of it is still highly alpha (especially at some medium sized companies that aren’t exactly mainstream but still faring extremely well i.e. Arista Networks, Intel)
Some tech-finance firms are also quite alpha - DRW, IMC, HRT, Jump, etc.
Went to a public school. Says he’s elitist. Makes sense
A public school, yes, but it's 80% Asian (figure might have jumped to around 90% since I graduated), in one of the most exclusive suburbs in the country. Housing prices are insane and no one's really willing to sell their property, so I would definitely call it exclusive. This ain't your typical run-down middle-of-the-country redneck school where only 60% of the graduating class graduates and everyone's out there in the alleys smoking weed and getting laid as soon as the afternoon bells ring.
I really don't understand the sarcasm.
Apart from oil (you're literally fucking the Earth [/quote]
I just died
-Joins wallstreetoasis.com
-thinks everyone in finance is an investment banker making 150k their first year
-reality hits like a ton of bricks and realizes that investment banking is .001% of banking
-has his dreams crushed
what an echo box
lmao totally.. need to add "-Settles on a job in the back office and lives the rest of life in misery."
I honestly think that doctors could pull harder than most bankers because girls will know what you do and that you make a lot where as most chicks probably don't know what investment banking is.
A supposed "alpha" industry/job is relative.
My nephew is a FDNY firefighter... I can't think of anything as alpha as running into the danger that everyone else is running away from.
Big 4
Rolexes and Lambo are for the betas who are overcompensating for their own pathetic existence. A true alpha doesn't even care about showing off those things.
On point. I can't help but quote the excellent Rob Sutton: "the behavior is like watching apes in the zoo throwing feces to assert male dominance," haha
Not private wealth banking, tell you that much.
Clown.
Prop traders.. Nothing more alpha than living and dying by your own sword, making things happen and taking 100% accountability for every decision made on the desk. Not showing up to work every day and putting in 'face time' and all that other bullshit that comes with a regular salaried job.. Ever since that beta-boy Volker cut the balls off of our industry, finance has not been quite that 'alpha' anymore.. Especially with all these new "equal opportunity" and diversity initiatives, Ibanking is has become more like retail banking or accounting.. This politically correct complacency and LACK OF F*CKING awareness and ballsy-ness to call a spade a spade is going to be the death of our industry (and probably cause the next crash).
Risk and compliance are the two fastest growing areas of the Ibanks nowadays... That should put it in perspective how far we have fallen. Feel bad for the young guns that actually have talent trying to break through.. Good luck betas!
Agree 100%. +1
Prop trading = gambling with house money and then demanding share of lucky bets but no penalty for bad bets.
Professional athletes? Actors and Actresses? In the social hierarchies aren't they top (a.k.a. Alpha)?
Sometimes I think WSO just makes these up to keep the comments going.
We have had writers in the past the past that are obvious trolls...this is not one of them, but I did get a laugh out of it, so who cares? If he's serious, it's sad but still somewhat entertaining
Ignoring your obvious trolling - what is ‘Chad’ meant to convey in your last sentence?
I’m so out of touch with reddit terminology...
I believe it is a meme from midtown uniform - instagram account
Surgeons.....not all doctors. It's a culture very close to investment banking. Doesn't even have anything to do with the money. Plenty of other specialties make good money, but the biggest dickheads, who think that they're God's gift to this planet, go into surgery.
professional athletes
Alpha = disrupting an industry from the comfort of your sweats, bud.
this is closer to my life. literally in my sweats right now. feeling more alpha now...
I think today the idea of alpha has gone to a physical manifestation rather than a mental one. I think people are much more comfortable confronting a physical challenge (fighting in a war) to an enemy that can be seen in a physical form (a man/ a thing) - compared to fighting ideology (freedom) or value (honor) or crisis (recession) or mental state (mindfulness). But to me, being alpha is all about mental stage. We can seen from the movie - The Godfather. It has always been a classic not because it is about mafia and drug. People like that movie because it is relate-able on and show what is like being a man - Michael Corleone was the prime example. Started as someone who is an outsider - carefree, polite, innocent - into a politically savvy, ruthless, shrewd head of the family - and all surrounding important themes/ values to protect - like family, honor, responsibility. So net net, I don't think there is a specific industry or career that can be considered alpha because it all depends on your state of mind. You can be a nurse, policeman, firefighter, spy, banker, doctor, politician, teacher - as long as you stay true to your responsibility as a man to yourself, your family and your community.
Well spoken. The movie scene is very much true. I think it is more mental as opposed to a physical ideology. We all make our bread and butter somehow, but how we portray ourselves and behave outside of the daily grind really makes us who we are.
Totally agree, yet I don't see a lot of it in finance.
God I wish I were a Chad
There's still time my son...
Are Chads born or made?
Yes, pencil neck nerds with inferiority complexes are the ultimate alphas (see what I did there? I generalized...)
Mike Tyson would like a word you turnip
This post is so troll its cringe.
Sex Industry, cmon guys
Real Estate Development
if you're going to try to be funny, could you at least put some effort in to come up with something original?
Dude Rolex is literally the opposite of alpha...it's the guy who knows he's not alpha but trying so hard to project it and yell out how wealthy he is
True class would be a nice A Lange & Sohne or Jaegar
bro bro bro totally alpha bro
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Which industry within finance is the most alpha?
Banking is almost entirely of insecure nerds who are compensating for being losers earlier in life, hence posts like OPs and people talking models and bottles
My friend, look around. Most of us are a bunch of broken souls, not alphas.
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