Want to give you all a bit of my perspective and why having a higher paying job is not all that cracked up to be. I came from a middle income family, went to a good undergrad school where I majored in the fund, and got lucky to secure an investment banking job straight out of college.
I then proved helpful hard for 3 years to transition to a bedside role at a multi-manager hedge finance. My payment was structured in a manner that allowed me to have unlimited upside depending about how much income the team made that calendar year. After just one single year into the job, I quit. My manager actually said to me, “You will make seven figures within a couple of years, why the hell are you quitting?” What he did not realize was I money was not a great motivator.
I already preserved up a good chunk of change from being in investment banking for a while, so at the end of your day the amount of money was just quantities going up in my bank-account. I do nothing like what I was doing also. It had been a short-term investing style, therefore I felt just like a gambler rather than a genuine investor. In addition, the work was all consuming and it was impossible to split up work/life given the quantity of information circulation that arrived on a regular basis.
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