re: How do you feel about young NY investment bankers being worked 80-100 weeks?

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For reference, these guys are getting paid ~160k out of college with hefty annual bonuses but in return they're expected to be on call about 18 hours a day for two years to make tiny changes and updates and do research for their superiors. If they make it through that meat grinder they enter the making millions territory and that's why they stay around

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AKA earning your keep. All people aren’t created equal, same goes for jobs. Want the success? Put in the dirty work. Only a “handful” of people in this world get it served up on a silver platter.

Do your work. Investment banking might be one of the most grueling and cutthroat jobs out there which is why the rewards come in waves.

The real world is a tough, just because you fail at something doesn’t mean you will keep failing or at the very least become good at something else. I feel bad for these guys thinking this is their only path in life.

“Crickets don’t think they’re frogs because they watched a house hunting episode on HGTV. They know they’re lottery winners because of the wars in the middle east.”
-Meghan Markle

they can quit

Your typo made me think they would work 80-100 weeks and then get shitcanned.

I work 60 hours a week or more. I first full-time job was an area supervisor for Wendy's. I was 19. I worked 7 days a week, at least ten hours a day because the franchise was opening up new restaurants all the time.

My first job was at 15 hoeing cotton. We'd arrive at the crack of dawn and work until dark - every day but Sunday. And we weren't looking foward to being millionaires LOL.

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Chasing money isn’t something I feel sorry for. That’s what they want. I look at it the same as a guy who chases the shut downs working 7 12s on the road then cry’s his wife left him or his kids hate him. Going out to make a living is one thing. Chasing the big payday to pay for a lifestyle is another.