Hi Wall Street and finance guys, are you guys happy right now? WFH is really sad. Rate your happiness from 1/10. Mine is like a 0. How do you guys cope with social isolation? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? IS the finance industry dead?
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About 7-8, I'd estimate.
Would like to go out and do stuff, and most local places are still shut.
hey, I still have a job and a good income. This will be over soon and we'll be fine.
x goan give it to ya
I’ve found my “happiness” has a near perfect correlation to my diet. If I eat like shit, I feel like shit and vice versa.
Quitting caffeine made me an exponentially more positive person. So much happier that I sometimes cringe at myself. Really only quit because I didn’t want to go bald.
Even working 100 hour weeks isn’t as bad anymore.
Does caffeine cause hair loss?
Caffeine/coffee can cause iron deficiency and vitamin D deficiency. You really need to eat a lot of heme-iron and vitamin D rich foods in order to not lose hair on coffee. I personally can attest as my hair stopped shedding when I quit coffee and added a few more eggs/red meats to my diet.
same. gotta eat well to feel well
100% agree, quit coffee as well, try my best to ear clean also no porn and jerking off
fucking zero bitch
Probably an 8 out of 10. I don’t always feel this happy. And this score comes in rare form as my mom is getting locked up tomorrow in memory care and my parents kitty went missing yesterday. I trained this kitty and they had it since June. It’s half exotic (Snow Bengal Siamese) so it likely got catnapped in broad daylight. Sucks. The vet actually warned me about this. But, I am here on this earth to serve a purpose and that is doing good works to those around me. This makes me happy. I really wish the kitty would come back though. We were super tight. It’s real bad timing as my Dad will be alone when I’m not visiting. No kitty no wife. Terrible timing. It’s actually the second Snow Bengal Siamese that they had and the other went missing as well after a few years. Damn.
What-the-actual-f*ck is this comment about lol? I need to get back to work...
Money cant buy happiness, but it can buy cars and watches :)
I'm sorry Isaiah
thanks Mr. Burns
let me be your kitten😍
ok but hopefully you're a female, which it already seems you're not... nice try though.. thanks
3.5. Shut sucks right now
7.7/10
0. I'm a sophomore in high school.
lol enjoy highschool. Why the fuck are you here?
if you want to be a partner/c-suite executive, you have to start mad early my guy!
dude, I don't know how you found this site, but you have found gold. Follow the path and you will:
a) get into a target
b) land a good position
Follow your passion, make your dreams reality.
Not possible for A, unfortunately. Due to a tricky combination of financial and immigration reasons, I'm incapable of paying the sticker price for targets, incapable of receiving any sort of need-based aid, and incapable of taking out any sort of loan. I have the stats and ECs to get into a Stern/UVA/Ross level target, but I don't have the circumstances to pay for it. I'll probably be going to Rutgers.
That being said, I know how to do it from Rutgers so B will be very much doable.
As for the last one, my passions and dreams (public policy, political science, international relations) won't pay the bills or sustain the lifestyle I want to have, so that's why I'm here ig.
In any case, thanks for taking the time to type out that response and not just telling me to "have fun" in high school. You've made my day, be blessed.
I feel this. Also a high school senior. In reality all I want is to work 120 hours fixing power point margins at Moelis.. pls hire me. Up until then life is a solid 0 by all means.
Why am I here? Like what the fuck is the point of all this bullshit? I don't even have a life philosophy or purpose at this point. I'm so lost.
You have to research your passions and purpose for life. Once you do enough research, you will eventually find your purpose and passion. It took me pretty much most of my 20s to figure out what I am supposed to be doing in this life.
And what is that?
3.5/4 - High stress period in my life and contemplating/executing leaving finance and yeeting the rest of my 20's. All while stuck inside with snow on the ground and my friends moving away has made the new year exceptionally challenging. I'm normally a happy guy, but coming to terms with the fleeting nature of youth + pandemic is a real bummer.
With you there. I'm losing all my friends without ways to make new connections. Feels like I've gone from a young person to an old person in a year.
feel u dawg
gotta find a way to win tho
Probably a 2. Live alone and work in a sweaty group with poor culture. Have been facing significant health problems (both physical and mental) over the past several months and am reaching a breaking point.
dang man its that bad? do you know what you want to do in the future? are you leaving IB?
8 or 9....mostly because of this song....and cocaine of course
yo this song slaps bro, i replayed it 5 times bro, dont be sad anymore! HOLY SHIT THATS IT IM CURED
3
why?
Because I fucking hate my life lol, that's why.
Probably at least a 9, feeling incredibly lucky and blessed. On the cusp of likely quitting IB this year. Made a large pile of cash trading since last year & paid off a lot of debt so finances are in tip-top shape. Have enough dough to pretty much not work for as long as I want, and looking forward to doing some traveling this year. Bonus is also getting paid out this month and my group & bank had an absolute gangbusters record year last year, so also expect a good chunk of change there. Things have been good with the wife and we're probably going to look to start a family this year. Just moved into a great place this past December which I'm loving. Finally, winter is almost behind us, absolutely dread the cold, so I'm really looking forward to spending time outside in warmer weather and biking around NYC.
what you been trading on?
SPACs
how can you trade spacs as an investment banker? I thought your trades are restricted due to firm policy
Firm let’s me
Starting a family = doing big fat sticky cummies
I dont know what happiness is anymore 😂 been doing the same shit for over a year, wake up 8am sleep 00am, eat, shit, brush teeth, work on shit, do other shit, eat, shit, read, sleep repeat. I feel like a robot
You're not a robot, you're an orangutan.
Im a LIGER
your firm allows you to trade crypto? are you in corp strat?
what's your retirement number
how hot is wife?
0 from work 10/10 cuz of my gf
is ur gf hot?
yeah
and she's amazing in all aspects, except her feet i'm a bit of a feet guy (actually quite a big feet guy) and her toenails are just too short but the rest of her feet look so sexy though fuckkkkkkkkk
Mine has to be around an 8/10.
Pros:
Cons:
Maybe a 0. I can't exactly remember the last time I actually felt good about myself for a prolonged period. Regardless of my successes, any happiness I do find fades very very quickly.
7/10
This thread is waay too negative. Unless you have cancer, a close person died, you are jobless and have no future, then you can't say it's 0. As much as I find lockdowns frustrating (rest assured, I am losing my patience as well), you could get it way worse.
Bunch of panzies really, fight in a war on the frontline, then maybe you can tell me life is harsh.
10/10. Was at a low point this time las year, sent home from school from covid. Realized that I liked everything about being in college except for the classes. Once the rest of that got taken away, I had nothing to work for. Needed a hard reset, so I dropped out, enlisted in the Army, and ship to basic next week. Fucking pumped for this next chapter.
It's totally zero ryt now.
Like a 2. Hoping nice weather and my office opening changes my outlook. Worried about the lasting impact of covid/quarantine on my career ambitions and social life. Bleh.
I was told today that under the new DHEC regulations, I will no longer be able to hug my mom.
I'm sorry to hear that man.
Really sorry to hear that man. I hope that changes soon and you’re able to spend time with her. It’s really nice to see how much you care about your mom.
3/10
Depends on the day, depends on my perspective on things. I’ve been largely insulated from COVID, I’m naturally introverted and rarely go out anyway. I live with my wife and enjoy working from home more than working in the office in most ways. Some ways it sucks.
I could say 9/10 some days when I focus on my family and loved ones (including close friends), happy they’re all doing well. I could say 3/10 when I’m tired as hell and work bleeds over into home life because there’s no boundary. My request to switch teams was approved so hopefully my WLB gets better
I’m about a -2/10 right now. Just need to rant and I have nobody in real life I can talk to about this stuff. I have been depressed over the last year and COVID has made it even more difficult. I worked hard to get an internship and gave it everything I had over the summer but didn’t get a return offer. I was honestly a little blind-sided by the decision. Since then, I have been trying to get a FT offer but it has been a miserable experience. I’ve only been able to make it to a few superdays after a decent number of networking calls and phone interviews, and I’ve left empty handed every single time so far.
The constant rejections are so demoralizing and it’s a negative feedback loop where each time I get rejected, the worse I interview in the future because of how little confidence I have at this point. I almost threw up before my most recent interview because I was so nervous, which has never happened. I’ve always thought that hard work pays off and I just need to keep at it, but now I feel broken and can’t convince myself that things will work out at the end of the day. I sort of threw all my energy and hope into getting a new offer since everything else in life has gone downhill so it’s sad to see that I haven’t been able to accomplish the one thing I set out to do. I have tried to remain positive and keep a smile, but it’s so hard. A couple weeks ago I had a pissed off interviewer who implied that I was dumb for not being able to get a return offer. He must have rejected me as soon as he found out. After the call ended I just burst into tears and sobbed for an hour.
I don’t know what to do anymore. If anyone has any words of wisdom or advice I would appreciate it right about now.
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