What are people's reaction when you tell them you work in a Hedge Fund?
When ever someone asks me what I want to do after a school I reply with working in a Hedge Fund. I get about 3 responses
a. What the fuck is a Hedge Fund?
- I then tell them and they look at me like I'm some sicko and say how boring
b. Your a money hungry bastard!
I wanna hear what responses you guys in Hedge Funds get when you tell people what you do?
I think you're in the wrong business if you're not a money hungry bastard
I think he's in the wrong business if he can't count to three properly.
Who are you talking to that is so aggressive in shitting all over career?
Pretty sure if you tell someone in finance that are going to a hedge fund the response is "that's sick" and if you tell someone not in finance that you are going to a hedge fund the response is "that sounds sick".
in NYC....when you tell a girl you work for a hedge fund, they mostly yawn and say "so, just like every other guy in New York then...."
Not at a HF but usually it goes something like this
Victoria's Secret Model #1: "So what do you do for a living?" Me: "Well I work in finance, specifically, Asset Management" Victoria's Secret Model #2: "You can manage my assets any time you'd like" Victoria's Secret Model #1: "Is your fund LONG only?"
I'd say that this exactly situation unfolds 90-95% of the time, every I ever bring up my job to anybody at any location.
Be honest with me here. Have you spoken to any Victoria's secret models? If you have.... thank you for solidifying my resolution to join the industry
If you want to talk to VS models, join the fashion industry
My friend said NYC is the only city where you can tell random people you work in finance, and be prepared to answer "what bank?", "what division?", and "what group?", in that order. I have to admit that's true.
Some truth to this its annoying
I would reply with Pierce & Pierce, Murders & Executions and that I'm on the Fisher account.
Nailed it!
What a shitpost.
The only people who ask you what you do in life are girls and potential employers. The girls don't really care as long as you make money and the employers already know what a hedge fund is. You are not going to be walking through hipsterdom telling everyone you work for a hedge fund just so they can yell at you with the improper use of "your" and beat you over the head with their "Feel the Bern" signs.
Sorry mate. Since I'm in high school I get this question about 3 times a day. I wanted to see what everyone else got!
Something to remember is that half of your highschool class (at least) will end up as fat losers. Their opinions shouldn't matter to you. Don't be a tool saying "I want to work for a hedge fund" but it's hardly a bad thing to have goals. Highschool seems like it's the most important thing when you're there, but it's not anywhere close.
Man when i was in high school everybody was working part time jobs at mcdonalds flipping burgers (or something similar). Good for you that you've been given the opportunity to work at a hedge fund.
Anyway on topic: 1) $$$$ - hf's shitting out money 2) day-trading or some variation of it - i'd assume they envision a bunch of guys staring at screens waiting for a stock to pop
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if you're going into finance for the reaction you get when you tell people you work in finance, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.
focus more on getting the job, less on what other people think.
hehe you think you get some negative responses telling the average joe you do finance in general? Try telling them you do mortgage backed securities
I don't bother anymore. These days I tell people I'm the guy that sits inside an ATM and feeds money out of the slot
one of the most successful dragon slayers I've ever met used to just make up ridiculous jobs. inevitably it'd just spark more conversation.
the list goes on
I'm going to have to try the 3rd from top sometime soon.
When I interned in VC and had to explain to people what I did, the unanimous response was "oh, so it's just like shark tank"
Yes, just like it...
They call me a liar, and they're right.
The most annoying one is that they ask which Hedge Fund.
...Despite the fact that they know the names of ZERO hedge funds.
"The one hemorrhaging money!"
Or you can always throw out something like "Goldman Stanley"
From now on, I'm saying i work for Point State 72. Either that or Redlight Capital Mgmt.
Why yes, I work at, 'Bridgewater Capital 72 Longridge Point Advisors, LLC. You may have heard of them, we make like, a gazzillion times a gazzilion dollars per quarter.'
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I just say I work for an investment firm because I don't need either the bullshit or the validation.
YAAAASS! You don't need no preftige!! Get it boo!! SLAY!!
No Preftige??!!?
You only listed two responses
Someone had already mentioned this, but don't you love it when you go out to a bar/social event and you meet a girl who asks you specific details of your job right off the bat as if that's the determining factor if she's going to continue talking to you or not.
Just LOVE it when girls questions if you're in IBD? when you say you're in finance. Subsequently asks which group within IBD?
what is response three? also, *You're
this thread is gold
grabs popcorn.
I have to explain that our hedge fund that I work for is not an investment firm, but we actually have hedge type plants on our location.
We are a fund that turns endangered plants into hedges and keeps them so they do not die off. A lot like this:
http://secrets-of-self-sufficiency.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/hawth…
My aunt used to work at a similar type of hedge fund.
Her's was an Asset Management firm whose proceeds went towards the on-going maintenance and purchasing of additional, psychical hedges. They have a pretty consistent generation of Alpha, excluding El Nino, of course.
How big was your Aunt's hedge fund?
Our fund was about 15,000 hedges at the peak.
I sense talent for reading footnotes in this guy's future. He actually (sneakily w/ a sub response) listed 3 responses. 2nd one is when he's being called a sicko and boring.
Who the heck called you a sicko after you explained them what a hedge fund is/does? And what exactly did you explain?? That you kill baby seals on the daily?
"Oh cool"
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