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If everything goes according to plan:

- 22 to 24: Investment Banking

- 24 to 26: Private Equity

- 26 to 28: HBS/GSB/Wharton MBA

- 28 to 30: Venture Capital

- 30 to 45: Jumping from startup to startup as head of finance or some shit, hoping one is the next facebook and I strike it rich

Naive? Yes? Still banking on it? Absolutely.

 
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honestly i think 30 to be the point where you finish all your prestige hoops and start defining it as 'jumping around' is way too early. A lot of 30 y/os don't even have their shit figured out yet. I assume you're around 22- 24 to be making this post? Plus, i wanna join business school slightly older since the average age is 27 - 28, will mesh abit better with classmates. You also missed out the pre-IBD prestigious background. I'd rephrase it as:

0 - 13: Born into the royal family of King Charles. Become Prince 'Insert hardo name e.g., Lloyd Blankfein'. Prince of Wales (or smtg). 3rd in line to the throne

13 - 18: Eton college. King's scholar. Rub shoulders with the future David Camerons and Boris Johnsons

18 - 19: Take a year out to travel the world doing charitable stuff and air force, as per royal tradition

19 - 22: Cambridge Uni, BA Economics

22 - 23: Oxford Uni, MSc Economics

23 - 25: IB analyst London, GS/ JPM/ MS

25 - 27: MF PE associate London, BX/ KKR/ Carlyle

27 - 29: HBS/ GSB/ Wharton MBA

29 - 31: MF PE VP, except this time you're in New York cuz you got recruited after your US MBA

31 - 35: VC Principal, Sequoia/ Andreessen Horowitz. For fun, you complete side quests like the CFA, FRM, CAIA etc for the heck of it

35 - 40: Jumping from startup to startup as head of finance or some shit

40 - 45: Your startup becomes the next Google and you become a billionaire

45 - 50: Aside from being CEO of your Google, you become chairman of several public companies and also Blackstone

50: Your father and several people above you die. Become King of England. With a heavy heart you relinquish your day-to-day operational responsibilities of your companies to your hand-picked successor, and return to England to take your throne. You remain chairman of those firms.

50 - death: You become the most famous, wise, and capable King of England ever. You provide the government with counsel, drawn from your decades of business experience. You write books about your Principles: Life and Work. You become heavily involved with philanthropy and sit on the board of various charitable organizations. Wishy-washy stuff aside, you are recognized as a financier 1st, king 2nd, so you write various textbooks on investments, corporate finance and valuation. You are recognized among the great investors like Howard Marks and Bill Ackman and your philosophies are taught in MBA classrooms and studied by both public and private equity analysts.

Death: You ascend to heaven and sit on the right side of the Father

 

Yeah this. And have the company grow and buy other companies. 

"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
 

Riase beefalo on a couple hundred acres and coach the local high school baseball team. Currently in a T20 MBA program, recruiting for IB and plan on staying in for as long as a I can. Background is in commercial banking so I got to work with a bunch of small companies that absolutely printed cash. Motivated me to make the pivot to IB so that I can go buy a small business (something between $1-2mm in EBITDA). 

 

But when it's all said and done I'll be 40

Before I know it with a 40 on the porch telling stories

With a bottle of Jack

Two grandkids in my lap

Babysitting for Hailie while Hailie's out getting smashed

'Cause every time I go to try to leave

Someone keeps pullin' on my sleeve

I don't wanna, but I gotta stay

This IBD really got a hold of me

'Cause every time I try to tell them "No"

They won't let me ever let them go

I'm a sucker all I gotta say

This IBD really got a hold of me

 

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