Side Hustles While in Banking

It goes without saying that working in IB is time confusing as fuck and finding downtime is not easy. 

I was curious if anyone has any insights on what people who work in IB do to start a second stream of income besides dropping their fat bonuses into crypto and chasing names on WSB?

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