So close to making it

Got rejected after a superday for JPM IBD summer analyst. I talked to an MD who interviewed me and apparently I was super close to the cutoff and was one of the last people to be cut. Got rejected at various stages at every other BB/EB and the only offer I got was at tier3 UK MM (Numis/peel hunt/ investec). I guess I'm now just going to have a mediocre life thinking of how close I was to a different trajectory if the jp interview went slightly differently 

 

Don't give up now, that's a self fulfilling prophecy. Just kill it and lateral out. You will not believe how many high end BBs/EBs are looking for laterals...lots of analyst turnover. Maybe you have to do an extra few months / 1 year to be able to then re-recruit into PE (if that's what you want). At the end of the day, 10-15 years from now, when you're soaking it in you'll realize in hindsight how insignificant one year was in the longevity of things

 
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Exact same situation for me 5 years ago. Went in to my "second class" role in commercial banking with a shitty attitude, spent half my time looking for IBD opps and anxiously starting WSO posts about what I can do.

Ended up dropping out after a year, going travelling, and eventually finding something that interests me but had to restart from square one in 2019. Meanwhile all my cohort (and even people I graduated with who did non finance roles) are way ahead of me and in a wide variety of pretty good careers including BB IB.

Every year I realise more and more that grad roles are far less important than how one performs in them.

 

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