How to have a long career in PE?

Getting a bit disenchanted... how do people in our generation (mid/late 20s) have a long career in PE? Most funds are political and top heavy, unless it’s a growing asset class like infra...

What are you guys’ thoughts? Thank you!

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Controversial

You read my mind. Every day, I go to bed wishing I worked in traditional PE. When I’m on the bus with the other peasants, I wonder: “Where did I go wrong? Why couldn’t I make it to REAL PE, where investment processes are exactly the same, comp is the same, hours are longer, the modelling is elementary, but you get to brag about investing in companies rather than assets?” I can barely stand the shame as it is... Please advise on what I should do? I beg you for help.

 
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All of the people who through MS at you make more money than you. You are the outsider that has failed to penetrate their elitist bubble. They are laughing at you from above because you will never know the prestige of being a God Tier LBO Boi. They were the kids in better fraternities than you in college, with higher GPAs. They aced the tests you stressed over to get B's on. While you run DCFs on cuck-tier real asset financing deals with thinning hair, they are getting BJs under their desk from rock solid babes who exist to please their fully levered penises. None of them need viagra to get hard. They are always hard. They work in real PE.

 

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