You're such a d1ck-head Randek!!!
I love the way that all IB types and IB hopefuls for that matter try to build I-Banking up to God like status. Just accept this one simple fact, the richest business people on earth did not start off working at IBs and sucking corporate c0ck, hell no. They made their own dream jobs by starting their own companies and those are the people whose balls you IB guys have to kiss daily and beg for their time. Tell me how many Wall Street types are in the top 100 or even 500 on Forbes rich list, if there are then you can bet that they started their own hedge fund or software firm etc having seen a niche or having realized what assholes they worked with. But the common feature will be that they OWN their own enterprise. For a fact over 90% of millionaires are self-employed and over 99% of deca-millionaires (having $10million or more) are also self-employed, with the vast majority of those people owing their own businesses. If you think a Wall-street job is the only way to get loaded then you're a total moron.
Fools like you see the I-bankers and corporate lawyers driving Porsches and you think that they are millionaires well let me tell you that most of those guys lifestyles are funded by credit cards and loans in trying to act the part. Most of them own fuck-all, acquire nothing financially and spend all their dough trying to convince their peers that they are hot-shots. Then they get fired or burn-out and have no money so look for another job, just begging for someone to employ them. Same fools go to a bar wearing a rolex and wait for the hot girls to notice them and then wonder why the bar-man is getting more action than they do, because he has the guts to ask for the girls number instead of acting like a pompous and pretentious jerk like Randek. Sure guys like Randek get laid by paying for it, or maybe they get a gold-digger girlfriend in which case a direct financial exchange would perhaps be more economical.
The common type of people who are the millionaires in the real world, and statistics and accurate research proves this, are the type of guys who own a shitty little businesses like construction firms and franchises, and drive a Ford pick-up to work. But guess what those are the guys with no mortgage or debts, and who in later life can afford to play golf when they don't have an expense account via their job.
Trading is great to try out and if you don't make it then try and start a small business. What you need to remember is that every company from GS to Intel started off as an idea. All the big retailers and banks all started off as one-man bands or small partnerships and grew. The reason why they grew is because supposedly educated morons with tiny yellow spines like Randek will always seek the comfort of being told what to do in exchange for a salary. Traders at least have the balls to fight for their living, they are men and women not born to be told what to do by others, people who will try and take what they can from life even if they fail. IB types are people who want respect and think that ass kissing and networking is enough. That's why so many dating agencies are crammed with IB types in their mid-30's trying to get a girl because they think networking still counts outside of work.
Hydro-blunt ignore Randek as he is just a d1ck, maybe he does work for an IB and maybe he will make it to the top only to find his wife banging her tennis coach and then cleaning out his retirement fund. Karma makes us all humble in the end. I also think that the original poster is full of shit, he's a liar as his type of person would have already signed his Goldman offer with his own blood had he received one, if only to feel elation among his circle of friends.
Bottom-line from me is GS is a good place to work with a huge social cost, but it is no guaranteed route to the top, nor is trading no matter how hard you try. In the end the way to get really rich is to be self-employed and start your own business, and hopefully build it up which is also hard to do. People look at guys like Buffet and Soros, but forget what do they OWN!!!
Quote from Randek:
Let's be real for a moment, piker.
The reason you're not in an investment banker is not because you choose not to be there.
The reason you're not in an investment bank is because NOBODY WANTED YOU!
And for your information, Sales and Trading is at an i-bank; it's just another division. You desperately wanted to be at Lehman, but they didn't want you.
And why were you surprised? You're just a lowly graphics artist boy, which is even below front office operations. It's amusing that you've only done Powerpoint work but already felt burnt out from doing simple tasks. Were you upset that you actually had to do work and had no time to smoke weed? Did you whine about having to do homework in school as well?? You're such a pussy.
It's obviously you're only trading because you got REJECTED from all your other job applications, but you should be thankful because your lazy kind usually ends up working in the deli or grocery store.
But just keep on talking down the jobs that you never ever had a chance for. Just do that to make you feel better about yourself.
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