Sat at your desk, getting texts from off old friends, and girls you could've got on, who are out partying just a couple of blocks from you.
Sat at your desk, falling asleep, feeling the emotional, physical and mental pain of yet another all nighter.
Sat at your desk, hating yourself for being so driven by the artificialities of prestige and money, whilst everyone else is out there living their few precious years with a happiness you can't even understand enough to properly envy.
You're tired, you're sure you're knocking years of you're life expectancy, you're in agony, and can't stop focusing on that extra weight that's started to accumulate.
Then you start to dream...
I could've been an entrepeneur, I could've been a musician, I could've opened up that little salsa bar, I could've just travelled the world, using whatever job I find in one place to fund the move to the next. I could've applied to wealth management (they all go home at 7pm and have 0 stress). I wish I banged my best friend at university (who was a girl! and smoking hot). I miss the intimacy of a relationship. I miss getting regular sleep and being home in time to go grab a beer with my friends.
This is a post for those toughest moments in the life of an analyst. Keep going - you'll be ballin' soon, and this will all be a faded memory! The pain of this moment, will soon be outweighed by the joys of the next.
Much love.
Great post
Because the next moment will be unemployment with lots of free time. So keep huslin!
Protip: your is not you're.
Your dreams also don't include the other side of the coin: I could've been broke, I could've been working a dead-end office stiff job, I could've been feeling unfulfilled personally and professionally.
Yeah, but those are more like nightmares, not dreams
I hope you didn't draw that it suxxxxxx
The way I think of it is: I'll be out before 25 (only 22 now). Which means I'll still be pretty young to enjoy some more free time and money.
Gee, thanks, I'm 24 already and only just start in July...
Associate or did you serve in the army or something?
Yea its tough but hopefully its all worth it in the end. IDK how much of a baller you can be @ 25 without staying in banking.
completely agree with all your sentiments - written during a crunch time - very emo!
Nice post bro, silver banana for you. I start in July and I hope it's not that bad on a regular basis as you make it sound. Anyway trying to enjoy my remaining 3 months of freedom...
great post but theres just something creepy about banging your best friend (who may be a girl)
Does it get THAT much better after an analyst stint?
Maybe that too is just a dream... ahhhhhhhh.
no, it doesn't. based on the general ambition of ppl on this board, you'll have higher expectations and dream to obtain the next best thing.
You're forgetting the Track (Banking -> PE -> Greatness) baby!
u guys are hilarious. nothing is going to be different in 3 years. First of all, if you live in NYC you arent going to have enuff money to actually impress any girl for at least a decade. I am not saying that you wont at some point have a normal relationship and a family, but when you enter this field you are giving up on seriously partying for good for 95% of people.
There is actually a great NY Mag article (link below) this week about how clubs work and how girls are brought in to make loser finance guys feel important and drop a couple of thousand bucks for 50 dollars worth of vodka. As you can tell from the article, you arent impressing any of these girls or getting anything more then a cheap feel with a 25 year old ex-analysts budget! Not saying you cant hook up with models, but having a hundred grand in the bank and three years of banking isnt going to help much.
http://nymag.com/news/features/65238/
[quote=Bondarb]u guys are hilarious. nothing is going to be different in 3 years. First of all, if you live in NYC you arent going to have enuff money to actually impress any girl for at least a decade. I am not saying that you wont at some point have a normal relationship and a family, but when you enter this field you are giving up on seriously partying for good for 95% of people.
There is actually a great NY Mag article (link below) this week about how clubs work and how girls are brought in to make loser finance guys feel important and drop a couple of thousand bucks for 50 dollars worth of vodka. As you can tell from the article, you arent impressing any of these girls or getting anything more then a cheap feel with a 25 year old ex-analysts budget! Not saying you cant hook up with models, but having a hundred grand in the bank and three years of banking isnt going to help much.
http://nymag.com/news/features/65238/[/quote] Way to go off topic there, champ.
[quote=Bondarb]u guys are hilarious. nothing is going to be different in 3 years. First of all, if you live in NYC you arent going to have enuff money to actually impress any girl for at least a decade. I am not saying that you wont at some point have a normal relationship and a family, but when you enter this field you are giving up on seriously partying for good for 95% of people.
There is actually a great NY Mag article (link below) this week about how clubs work and how girls are brought in to make loser finance guys feel important and drop a couple of thousand bucks for 50 dollars worth of vodka. As you can tell from the article, you arent impressing any of these girls or getting anything more then a cheap feel with a 25 year old ex-analysts budget! Not saying you cant hook up with models, but having a hundred grand in the bank and three years of banking isnt going to help much.
http://nymag.com/news/features/65238/[/quote]
I agree, you won't be able to impress the gold-diggers until you are VP at the earliest
also, all of you people who are lamenting the IB lifestyle and hoping that things will get better are a bunch of pussies.
General Patton would be ashamed.
i hear you buddy but salsa bar?
LOL
Great Post.
Or you could have been primo-ing and casper flipping instead of make sub primos and swapping.
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so it's really not worth entering banking if you can't do it straight out of undergrad? amirite?
I thought he meant "your" in a poetic sense. He is talking about our "tired" and our "in agony". A thing that, at some time or another, we all have or feel -- a play on words/homophones.
Either that or he doesn't understand elementary English.
I've now changed - embarrassing mistake for any analyst!
If that's all you can take from the article, well.. I'd rather be making English mistakes.
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Bondarb, that article is absolute GOLD. My favorite part about Wall Street pretenders:
umm, this really deserves its own thread....but it is relevant. the message: for all you dreamers (including myself at one point!) who think theyre on are on their way to becoming ballers, sorry to burst your bubble, but theres always some unattainable level right above you. get over it.
Though not sure whether it's for the better that you didn't bang your best friend!
My friends and I are now at this stage of our careers, and let me tell you, most of your dreams will not come true. Sorry. More likely outcomes are:
A VERY small number are living the dream that we all bought into when we started as analysts. I'd recommend focusing on doing your job well and trying to avoid depression. Don't count on being 26, filthy rich, working at TPG, and magically picking up a model who graduated cum laude from Princeton to be your future wife. You don't deserve any of this - you will be lucky to get it.
Very few finance guys in NYC are living "baller" lifestyles and banging hot chicks. Just be happy that you have a good job and making more money than like 99.5% of twentysomethings in this country.
Wow, that was kinda Emo.
But I actually read most of the linked article. Male Pecking order hierarchy Movie Stars > (famous) professional athletes > foreign royalty/ballers > PE/Hedge Fund "whales" > the rest of working professional class (Bankers, Trader, F500, Consultants) > the rest of the population dancing to fill up space.
Let's all go become Tiger Woods by working 100+ hours a week. Oh, wait it doesn't work that way.
Tough to stand out in NYC as a finance guy, because there are so many wealthy and successful finance hotshots in the city. my friends who work at citadel, on the other hand, are at the top in Chicago. they get mad props when they tell people where they work.
I always wanted to be an arms dealer.....
You should have just labeled this post "The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side." Enough Said!
PS -- if your goal is impressing gold-diggers, or if money is the only way you can feel confident around a girl, you have bigger problems than your 100-hour workweek.
How do you even plan on meeting any of these girls when your working 100 hour weeks? My friend is a barman - he has had sex with 8 times as many girls as me this year (8 girls) - he's short, balding, and broke - but he's also a nice guy and works aroud drunk chicks.
Still, least I can knock up a pitchbook in under 4 hours...
When you're a baller, pain is part of the game...
wheres the thread about the guy describing waking up in the morning (very creatively), walk into the office late not caring and now hes a VP in PE or something
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