you have to go to Europe to get laid?
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Average Wall St paycheck $300k?
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you have to go to Europe to get laid?
"I'd rather be exhausted and rich than have a comfy 9-5, driving a hyundai and flying coach. "
you sound like one too...your values are warped..too much MTV cribs and reality TV...
Wall Street..the place where many very smart driven people, who could be using these skills and energies to work to do something productive in their lives ,but instead work to make money off of the buying and selling of others..
unbridled greed and the consumeristic behaviors that come from it ....
you sound like one too...your values are warped..too much MTV cribs and reality TV...
Wall Street..the place where many very smart driven people, who could be using these skills and energies to work to do something productive in their lives ,but instead work to make money off of the buying and selling of others..
unbridled greed and the consumeristic behaviors that come from it ....
I'm guessing that the thread title has something of a "survivorship bias" thing going. I wonder what the burnout/attrition rate is? And I have no doubt that, initially, the burnt toast brigade was equally gung-ho about making it to the higher rungs of that pyramid-shaped organization chart. But those pesky pyramids have a way of limiting most of the minnows with visions of becoming big fish. And depending on the competitiveness of your working environment (we are talking about Wall Street, after all), it can bring out interesting qualities in co-workers with similar visions. Free-for-all, anyone? I wonder how much the overworked, but passed over, husks are making when you break it down on a hourly basis?Quote from eagle488:
So your making 60-80k to start in a very expensive city working an arduous, long houred, stressful job. There is always a good chance that you will be fired. The reward is that you might make the big cash one day.
It's hard not to be impressed with those who really made it in that environment. But what are the odds? And as for that average paycheck, I think that the median paycheck might be more telling.
Quote from TheDudeofLife:
"I'd rather be exhausted and rich than have a comfy 9-5, driving a hyundai and flying coach. "
you sound like one too...your values are warped..too much MTV cribs and reality TV...
Wall Street..the place where many very smart driven people, who could be using these skills and energies to work to do something productive in their lives ,but instead work to make money off of the buying and selling of others..
unbridled greed and the consumeristic behaviors that come from it ....
What do you do that's so fucking beneficial to the world? And what's wrong with wanting to be successful?, if everyone settled with mediocrity where would the world be right now?
Quote from Drew07:
What do you do that's so fucking beneficial to the world? And what's wrong with wanting to be successful?, if everyone settled with mediocrity where would the world be right now?
"if everyone settled with mediocrity where would the world be right now ? "
I would guess that we may not have , Multi National Corporate Imperialsim, War in Iraq, an unbalanced economy, a culture in ths crapper, irresponsible levels of debt, widepsread unethical business conduct..Paris Hilton, Donald trump..etc....
Quote from TheDudeofLife:
"if everyone settled with mediocrity where would the world be right now ? "
I would guess that we may not have , Multi National Corporate Imperialsim, War in Iraq, an unbalanced economy, a culture in ths crapper, irresponsible levels of debt, widepsread unethical business conduct..Paris Hilton, Donald trump..etc....
well said..
100% correct...
I don't know if your numbers are accurate, but that's why I think that a median paycheck number would be much more useful and informative than an average figure.Quote from psytrade:
The top 20 investors / traders on wall street earn more than the combined earnings of 500,000 office staff. Put that in perspective....