What is your end goal / dream job?
Out of curiosity, what does everyone want to end up doing in finance? What positions in trading, banking, private equity, real estate, etc, etc? Or maybe doesn't have to be finance?
Out of curiosity, what does everyone want to end up doing in finance? What positions in trading, banking, private equity, real estate, etc, etc? Or maybe doesn't have to be finance?
+84 | Waiting for a Girl | 34 | 18m | |
+84 | Fucking quit today | 22 | 1h | |
+79 | Finance Fiction Sub-Forum? | 17 | 2d | |
+69 | Are banking MDs happy with their life? | 21 | 5h | |
+68 | Remember to take care of yourself | 8 | 2d | |
+51 | Is it a bad idea not to save anything as a junior? | 27 | 2h | |
+32 | Enron + Smartest Guys in the Room | 14 | 3d | |
+29 | NYC Social Clubs (Soho House & Others) | 9 | 2d | |
+28 | Staying Busy When Laid Off | 12 | 1h | |
+27 | Good jokes for interview? | 10 | 6h |
Career Resources
M&A/Econ professor at a flagship state-school, angel investing on the side, and maybe a couple of board seats at cool startups
This is literally my goal too, haha. Small world
Just add occasional allegations for "inappropriate relationship" with a student, may be a cheerleader.
Hopefully the "accuser" is never that cheerleader. If it is, that'd be kinda fucked up.
Developer of significant projects that positively impact the cities they exist in both at street level and the skyline while making me a lot of money.
You don't think cities are killing this planet? Come on, man. This real estate shit is a hustle. Nothing more.
No. Cities are far better for the planet than suburban and rural sprawl is.
Also, "positively impact" doesn't automatically imply environmentalism.
Totally checked out retired Greenwich dad.
How does one accomplish this?
Cocaine
I want to scale my PE firm to be as large as possible and then convert it into a self-perpetuating non-profit and get into philanthropy.
Not a fucking clue. It'll make money and give back to the community
Being a bank teller
Username checks out.
You should change your username to FutureUnemployed because your job is about to be automated
Assuming money is no issue, and I'm completely financially independent, with a couple of hundred $MM liquid.
I'd probably open up a nice shop selling vintage and boutique guitars and amps. Hell, I'd even sell stuff at break-even or small loss, if that meant bigger volume. It'd be like x-mas eve every day for me, along with meeting lots of cool people. I actually did that on a much, much smaller scale during college, and it was the most fun time of my life ( but it's extremely difficult to make a good buck).
Ha, that's actually how I got my start and built my first business around it. Was netting ~$80k+ a year but my focus wasn't on vintage as vintage is stupid saturated.
Stay at home dad.
I'm about to be one of these next year
Is your wife pregnant? Congrats!
Who is the lucky father!?
You got a sugar moma - nice!!
Sorta sorta
Senior summer analyst at a BB after being an intern at ever bank in the us.
I ain't no expert at this but isn't that just being like the most popular grunt.
I definitely don't wanna be working. I wanna have enough money to play golf, drink, (insert vices here), gamble, repeat. But then I would probably blow it all so I will need to make more money. So any job that can pay for that.
Sounds like living hell
That's my dream too
I would like to cut grass for my local school, completely free of charge.
https://media.giphy.com/media/xT5LMGwz4GH0yJHWXm/giphy.gif][https://med…]
To have enough assets that will pay me monthly/yearly that I can retire and run my own capital. Real estate, PE, owning companies, franchises all that I am interested in. Very few get rich working for the man. I hope to work myself one day.
Couple million dollars in the bank and fuck off to live a spartan life in some cabin in New England.
Nice. I just do that through Airbnbs once in a while
tech entrepreneur/executive and investor first then philanthropist.
would be cool to lead a moonshot division that is funded by the tech companies i create/work for but then oversee a wide mandate, opportunistic fund that invests in both startups and fundamental hedge fund style strategies.
I don't know
It's hard to tell if I would ever achieve this but I would love to be a teacher at my elementary school but only after retiring. I used to live in Gainesville Florida until the 3rd grade and had the most enjoyable experience growing up there. It's been a long time since I've been there but it's not a densely populated area and the people were always nice.
Elementary school teacher sounds like hell to me - too much uncontrollable chaos
Bruh I lived in Gainesville Florida all my life, it’s a sweet town but I 100% assure you after 6 months of quarantine living with my parents I would trade my right testicle to get back to NYC and out of this shithole
Summer house and mansion for the fam.
Be the Zamboni man at my local hockey rink and gas beers all day.
Diversified REPE family office with the ability to invest across all investment vehicles including LP or GP common equity, preferred equity, or debt. Also want to start a non-profit martial arts gym with a program for bullied kids to give them confidence.
Same on the real estate side. Cool idea about the gym.
Be a tech investor and start an organization that builds schools around the world.
Manage a hedge while living in the middle of nowhere (but close enough to a small town) in Montana in a luxury cabin home with the wife, kids, and five dogs and every couple of months fly-in to NYC to meet with investors.
to make enough money to take care of all the animals on this planet.
Can't the animals take care of themselves?
Not funny at all, bud
X
Retire at 40, live the next 5 years on one long coke bender, die peacefully in my sleep at 46
Vineyard owner/wine merchant. The Italians say it's the best way to turn a large fortune into a small one.
How come people glorify running a vineyard? It sounds like a fucking lot of hard work. Like just drink the wine dude.
You hire ppl to do the hard work duh
So true. I think the secret is finding people to run it for you and just owning a successful one.
I want to end up being your step-father.
I'd love to put together firework/pyrotechnic shows
There's a documentary, I think on Netflix, about a Chinese guy who is a fireworks artist. This guy puts on ridiculous fireworks shows. IDK how to find it but look it up if you're into fireworks. It might be on Prime. It also might be a United Airlines exclusive. IDK man figure it out
Is it Sky Ladder on Netflix?
I think people too often focus on what they want to do rather than who they are working with. I've been lucky to be parts of teams that were awesome, but at my old gig the upper management was bad and, as revenues declined, they got worse, which exacerbated the rev loss and ultimately made me jump ship. Now that I'm independent, I can chose who I work with and am very selective: they have to be smart, humble, and nice people. If they aren't, I refuse to work with them.
Here's the thing: the work I do now is pretty much the same as I did then, but I am much happier because who I work with are of a higher quality. You'd be surprised how bad coworkers/bosses/customers can turn a dream job into a nightmare.
Acquiring distribution rights for film and TV then pump them out overseas
Would also use the power for public good, basically erasing certain films or actors from history
So censorship = good in your world?
Only if it’s for what he perceives as “public good”, just like the Democratic Party
Friends and family real estate investor for an income stream and to keep me occupied. I would like to somehow help/educate high school kids about basic finances. Not sure the best way to do it, but it needs to be addressed so they can at least understand what they are doing when they take on loans, have credit cards, and can dollar-cost-average to be in the upper-middle class.
Look up Junior Achievement.
Nice, thank you
Once I pay off my student loans, bowhunting guide
General debauchery across the world. I'd be like gum on Anthony Bourdain's Desert Ghost Clarks. When I start feeling purposeless, e-commerce platform/infra/roll-up play on 5 -10 small businesses for whatever fragmented industry interest i'm most into at the moment. Start-up a conservation non-profit, but still pay myself a pretty questionable salary. Become a legend at the local bowling alley.
Memelord fund manager. Would like my own multistrat.
Fortune 500 board member. I feel like I have a good shot at getting there one day.
Owning a private island in southeast Asia that doubles a dog shelter. A nice boat that can get me to civilization when I want it, and removed from everything the rest of the time. With a great partner who's in it with me, and kids out elsewhere getting the best education that money can buy so that they can appreciate that life one day too. And a mid-8 digit pot minimum to make it all work comfortably.
Short of that, my own seed / series A fund with a bias against tech, that lets me be a part of building the next generation of consumer products and industrial processes from the ground up / help them get off the ground. Also, own dogs.
So you don't know shit about how to make money but you want to teach others to do so? Mr. Money Mustache has you beat on that scarcity mentality bandwagon
Live in a van down by the river.
Some combination of:
Involvement in high-level fundraising or investing the endowment of my Alma Mater.
Coaching youth sports (highschool or below) and treating it like a full time job, with the salary being completely immaterial.
Managing a personal portfolio of real estate.
Playing a shit ton of golf and and having my ass parked in season ticket seats as much as possible.
Cannabis connoisseur. Travel to different states/countries to try the best weed and review them.
That's not a job dude. Who's out there reading weed reviews? Weed is so good nowadays it doesn't even matter. And why travel? Just have that shit delivered.
This guy gets paid to smoke:
Also heard of the cannabis cup? We have a long way to go for cannabis. Right now the market is focused on THC % but has severely understated the entourage effect, terpene profiles, and other cannabinoids. There's also the concept of exotic strains which can only be found in certain geographies. Humboldt has a reputation for the best stuff for good reason!
To each his own of course but if people do it for wine, you can do it for weed :)
I mean look, influencer wasn't a real job and now it's the most cost efficient way for brands to acquire customers. Professional gaming wasn't a real job and now viewership for the League of Legends is nearing the Super Bowl
Become a mathematics teacher in my former boarding school after getting rich through barely legal methods
Hands-off family office owner and chairman.
A few (2-4) Board Positions in a mix of blue chip companies and non-profits.
Owner and chairman of my favourite football (soccer) team.
Mentoring and early stage investing in selected (and very few) start-ups.
Based in Monte Carlo, working hours would be 10 am - Noon, followed by a home/family lunch, sailing along the Riviera in the afternoons, and dinners in local restaurants.
I just bookmarked this comment, I hope I can be doing even one of those things in 40 years.
Throw in some philanthropy stuff through a foundation and I'm sold
Open a high end tailor shop and inside trade on info gleaned from hnw clients
Hit MD early on and retire at 55. Then go serve on the board of a blue chip or two and teach classes at a large state school.
Wholly-owned holding company with interests in specific industries like cannabis, transportation infrastructure, space and robotics, and military technology, among others. Plus charities/investment vehicles focused on education and social infrastructure in emerging markets.
Do you watch Joe Rogan by chance?
Who watches podcasts?
No I don't, why?
First of all, I am in love with sport and athletics, so I would love to have a training camp for aspiring athletes.
and
Art studio / gallery in NYC with fully staffed front end to promote and sell the art.
and
Professional Triathlete.
and
Therapy / Recovery Center - for athletes and people seeking to relieve stress.
and
Private practice psychiatry services for select clients (I'd need an MD).
and
Own an online poker/gambling company (I think it would be easy passive income after setting up).
and
Consulting firm: - small business development (corporate) - sustainable growth (corporate) - sustainable energy (lifestyle)
and
VC firm
and
super rich M&A shop
Too bad that'll never happen and you'll be stuck posting here forever
you’re probably right - I’ll just become a hippie surfer bum trolling Venice Beach and WSO
I want to build houses as my own home-builder. I have my license now in Virginia, but need an influx of $2-3 million to build a team and $20-30 million to start acquiring land and acquiring credit lines for building. Whomp waaaaah.
Ask Deutsche for credit....oh wait. (DB not BB)
One of my clients is a custom home builder. It seems really fulfilling. He got his start painting water towers in college and made most of his money on government contracts building dams and prison fences and shit. This guy loves houses. He just builds cool ones for people for fun now more or less. His own house has a wine cellar, radiant heating in all the floors (heated by hot water in the floor rather than central hear. although there's HVAC too of course, he has pumps circulating water so that there's hot water at the faucet immediately once you turn it on (the tankless heaters don't do that btw, I had one for a while. still do actually. just don't live there), each floor is separate climate control, crazy movie theater with multi-6-figure sound system and it's insulated so crazy you can't hear anything from another room. He's so into houses, you point at a random object in the house and he'll talk for an hour about it. He'll talk about the nuances in drywall tape. I didn't know they make ovens that cost more than a new BMW, but then do and he has two of them in his kitchen. He doesn't fuck around with houses for his clients either. He does shit super right from the ground up. Overbuilt foundations, industrial-grade rough, it's dope. He has a few massive scrapbooks of photos of all his projects over the years and loves going through them with people. Or with me at least. He must have shown them to me 5 or 6 times now. He either forgets he showed me before or just doesn't care, but goes through them with equal vigor every time.
Are you interested in true custom homes or spec homes? Spec is way easier to start in and you can sell way easier.
It's cool that he's really passionate about it. As for me, I hate custom homes as an industry. The rich (or high earners) have endless people willing to build them houses. The middle class, as usual, is screwed over, either by government or market forces. I just have zero interest in custom home-building for another family of lawyers (in my area, if you see 3 custom homes, you can bet at least 2 of those houses have an attorney in it).
Y'all have some high ambitions. When I worked as a caddy, this was the best advice anyone ever gave me.
"There are lots of ways to make money. Some people sell their souls to work for the devil, others make their money work for them. All I need is a parking lot with a ticker that goes up and down."
For me, I want to get into Venture, apprentice there for a bit, move into a smaller shop with lower AUM, exit a few companies, and own parking lots.
Good business plan so long as you buy the right parking lots. If autonomous cars ultimately win the battle for transportation then only a few well located parking lots will be used and at a very high capacity.
True, but I think people over hype that industry and the rate of adoption
General partner at either a16z or Sequoia. Basically determine the future of the tech industry, and be a part-time lecturer at the GSB. This would probably be my ideal job. But there is a little more to my dream than just a job.
Pro soccer player for a top euro team.
Pls fix - "Sequoia". Thx.
Model Photographer
Tax Collector or Rabbi.
I aspire to sitting in a cafe drinking espresso and operating as a full-time twitter troll.
Retirement
Originally from St. Louis, MO. Want to startup my own alternative investment management shop back home, grow it to a decent size, and employ deserving people. Ultimately want to give back to the city that gave so much to me while also running the show.
Of course, this isn't purely altruistic. A fair amount of the motivation comes from the desire to tell all people that hated on my ambitions to fuck off.
My own alternative asset management/investment shop. I'm pretty sure I could raise some money given my connections to sports agents.
My goal is to have my own business and my plan is before the end of the year
My end goal is to build my own business (whatever it may be), and in the meantime work in CB.
Mercenary
Dream job = No clear line between personal and private time. If I leave for a couple days, weeks, months; I still collect income and I report to nobody.
Probably own / operate several businesses.
If I was loaded, I'd be a full time writer. Would they be any good? Idk, probably eventually.
My goal before the end of this year, build a small business not just for me but for my family
I want my children to be proud of my work.
It will be the most pleasant feeling in my life.
Set up a not for profit program that helps inner city kids buying new school clothes, general emotional and academic support and teaches them the basics of finance from investing to how to wear a suit and how to speak in a business environment. Just want to die knowing i helped a kid go from a potential drug dealer or murderer to a productive member of society that will one day raise a loving and supportive family.
My end goal dream is Popular businessman.
Trader. Wife. Mama.
Will you be a rich mama? Or a failed trader mama?
Obvs a rich mama thanks to my beautiful trades. What do you think trading is - a 9-5?
I realized I had naturally fallen into the role for most of my life (community management) and dreamed of working in video games since I was a little boy.
I started doing volunteer community work & then Apknite started paying me to do it. As for how I got the position I am currently in as Community Manager for Minecraft, it was a lot of hard work, taking a huge risk, & thankfully being in the right place at the right time.
Managing my own quant fund or being a pretty important figure at one. With $100M+ Net worth and $1M+ annual income.
Occasionally lecturing at MIT about random math topics that I find interesting while not giving a shit whether other people are interested. Being that big time HF guy at all the big poker tournaments.
Doing all the above til I die at the year 2101, just to say that I lived 3 centuries.
not sure pretty sure i fucked up a few turns back
I would want to be the next Dan Bilzerian
Lots of hot girls to travel with (who cares if fake)
Cool friend and fitness coach
Cool pets
Hardcore partying
you forgot to add drug related heart attacks before the age of 30
Work for someone else all the while never earning equity despite staying at the same company for 2+ decades. Ill pay some sad sap over at UBS too much to "manage" some WSO Prospective IB LORD Monkey tells me hes been studying econ for roughly 5 weeks and has a sure fire way to determine the next recession. He asks me if I've heard of Michael Burry (pronouncing it Mike Barry), and if I knew that recessions are cyclical. At this point I finally get the motivation to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, only to survive and live out the next 20 years in the hospital. The kicker? My kids forget I exist and start calling my now-exes HF manager boy toy Daddy.
Funny with nice details but now I'm sad dude wtf
These "serious/sincere" replies are preposterous. I dont wanna read about how a bunch of kids still in school are aspiring angel investors/BB partners/Cancer curers/"The Next Dan Blizerian"/retired in Nantucket at 35 with a NYC runway model for a wife and 45 Aston Martins clogging up their mile long driveway.
Shooting for the stars here. Quant fund manager. Beach house in my Florida hometown, a Hamptons mansion, all the Italian cars. Maybe teach math / physics / computer science when I retire. Also fund higher education in Florida.
Laborum mollitia placeat vel quaerat nesciunt doloribus. Et rerum excepturi quia sequi et ex. Voluptatibus ut at nihil veritatis aut. Accusantium quod optio beatae impedit. Qui tempora facere molestias ea voluptates odio dicta. Est adipisci fugit voluptate eaque atque.
Et nemo recusandae dolores occaecati omnis magni fugit. Voluptas quia quis distinctio fugiat cupiditate.
Nisi doloribus voluptas quam blanditiis totam odio commodi praesentium. Nihil dolorem sit occaecati repellat. Earum non facere necessitatibus. Totam aliquid enim modi aliquid ut.
See All Comments - 100% Free
WSO depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something. Unlock with your email and get bonus: 6 financial modeling lessons free ($199 value)
or Unlock with your social account...
Architecto aut consectetur est libero. Tempora voluptatem sunt aut itaque velit. Vel corrupti est sint officiis quod magnam. Aut voluptas error est. Aut qui accusantium sunt quia earum. Sunt quo quia dolorem aut.
Minus voluptatibus et maiores consequuntur autem. Officiis voluptas voluptates dolor ipsum velit sed illum. Consequatur occaecati provident voluptas assumenda ipsa. Nulla ratione labore vel. Harum incidunt vel quia nobis sed sint ut. Omnis rerum qui eligendi optio.
Pariatur totam eligendi rerum totam dolores in. Cupiditate aliquid quia sed eos cupiditate.
Autem et ea suscipit natus cumque iure sit qui. Explicabo et et voluptates exercitationem fuga. Quisquam distinctio voluptas minus voluptas mollitia ut.
Enim assumenda eaque vel in et. Voluptatem enim commodi debitis ex rerum sed. Et maxime error ipsam. Asperiores est necessitatibus et laborum blanditiis.
Necessitatibus alias nihil et atque. Dolores ratione delectus ipsum placeat et. Quod tempora nobis repellendus quidem voluptatum. Ea velit ut ea provident.
Quo aut voluptas porro aut facere. Porro quae numquam quia accusamus magni autem nihil. Nihil nostrum dolore molestiae qui qui consequuntur.
Ratione occaecati dolorem at aut magni sint eos. Consectetur saepe cumque saepe facere eligendi sunt. Eius ipsum soluta nihil sit dolorem et ea et. Corrupti et error expedita recusandae repellat nobis quae. Sit molestias deserunt provident omnis sit.
Sed vero eum eveniet quia. Incidunt natus voluptate praesentium culpa. Occaecati necessitatibus nisi ad neque. Labore doloremque unde quia vero recusandae. Illo odit dolor dolore eligendi qui dolores earum.
Corporis voluptate voluptas ab nam qui adipisci ut voluptatem. Aut rerum omnis magnam a consequuntur et est autem. Libero eius ratione voluptatem illo totam. Enim quos iusto necessitatibus consequatur sed. Sint cupiditate aut explicabo aut nesciunt saepe. Exercitationem maiores sed ut mollitia quo laborum harum.
Esse debitis sapiente hic quis laudantium qui. Minus facere quia excepturi rem voluptas id. Laudantium exercitationem reprehenderit aliquid fuga nihil id qui.
Exercitationem quia nemo necessitatibus. Voluptas quia sequi ut et occaecati.
Qui et a ut voluptatem nemo non et. Sint sit qui fugit in sapiente aut. Eveniet maxime eos omnis.