Attitude is the Key

Whats with the recent inferiority complex of people on this board.

Are kids from non-targets at a disadvantage when it comes to breaking in? YES! However, it is definitely possible, but you have to be willing to outwork, outhustle, and outnetwork your competition. You need to demonstrate that you have a passion to be in high finance and you need to be more prepared than your peers. You have to do what you can to get any relevant experience on your resume.

If it takes interning 30-40 hours a week at a boutique while in class full-time, then do it. Stop whining because all of us non-targets who made it here either took multiple calculated risks to get in this position, or bring something to the table that sets us apart from the traditional candidate.

So what are you going to do to develop your edge? I'm sick of the whining, stop feeling sorry for youself and do what you can to make the best of the situation. Hit up local boutiques and see if they need help, hit up FA's, they always need cheap help. Join any sort of investment club on campus or in the community. Do something that gets you some finance name on the resume that you can later leverage into a better position. Just stop sitting on this forum and sulking about how you are so disadvantaged because many people on here including myself grew up in bumfuck nowhere, went to underrated schools and somehow got here.

Sorry everyone, but no one is going to hand you a free ticket into the top 5% just because mom said you are a winner and you have 25 participation trophies in your closet.

Get up and do something and stop trying to get people to feel sorry for you. Get rejected? No one cares because so did 10,000 other people.

Finding a job is like picking up women at a bar, you keep hitting them up and eventually one is either drunk enough or desperate enough to say yes. Not everyone was a born a stud, so you can only make the best of the hand you've been drawn. If you go home alone, well at least you can try again Saturday.

People hire people with good attitudes and people with good attitudes are more likely to be successful.

Rant over. If this hurt your feelings, go back to your safe space, because the real world isn't safe.