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That’s just a career, not a life. Two different things.

 

This shit really made me think how theres so much more to life than finance

 

18 year olds on WSO be like....
 

"Ok so I'm a senior in highschool and deadset on IB. My plan is to get into a top target (think HYP), then hit the ground running for an internship my freshman year at a boutique, then leverage that into a local MM IB internship, then leverage that into a SA stint at a BB (think GS/MS/JPM), do 2 years as an analyst, then get into a M7 MBA, leverage that into a top private equity firm (think Blackrock/KKR/Carylyle), make partner eventually, then retire. Is this a good plan?"

 
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I mean, yeah that’s a good plan if you’re an underachiever. I personally got a BB offer after my sophomore year and then an EB offer junior year. Unfortunately they found out I lied about being gay so now I’m a prospect again.

 

I have a question though, I went to a target school and I played jump rope with the idea of getting into IB until this pandemic hit and made me think it might be better to just take my return offer at a corporate accelerator and be thankful I have a job.

Is this track essentially closed for me, and if so will I never be happy? I know this sounds like a dumb question but I really have no idea what I want to do with my life and I feel like I should have just been like my parents who just followed the medical track to success rather than try to construct my own path. Again, sorry for the dumb sounding question and thank you for your responses!

 

Take my advice with a grain of salt but if you've an itch for IB then try it out for a year or two and then decide about leaving for med school or staying in finance. 

 

My GPA is below cutoff though (still trying to figure out why financial statement analysis was so hard for me), so I don’t think I’d be able to get anything for FT (got placed as an alternate for Oppenheimer’s FT 2021), is there any hope for me with a below cutoff GPA or should I just try and take the MBA route down the line

 

Entrepreneur -> live with your parents until you're 35 -> fail to raise money -> bankruptcy -> realize that your trust fund is generation skipping -> die

 

Old days - have a high income, invest prudently, retire with a large net worth 

Today - play the startup lottery, hope you IPO, and walk away with 9 figures + in less than 5 years. 

 

Harvard -> Goldman Sachs -> Retire to Senior Government Position 

 

Goat path is definitely having your dad do all that IB -> PE -> HBS -> PE shit and then your path is

Exeter -> Harvard -> trust fund -> travel and become an “investor”

 

You think people would pay him to just yell at the beginning of a song? He's basically the director of his albums, meaning he coordinates the musicians, production, and design to produce his albums. If he was that replaceable, then no one would pay him what he gets paid. He started from nothing as a random DJ in Miami

 

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