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I'm sure some of you genuinely believe that chasing a high paying and high-status career is lucrative. Even though most of you deny it you might still subconsciously believe it.
As an Ivy League grad who has seen it all and is a wagie himself, time to get you subhumans back to reality.
High Pay Fallacy
Unless you work in FAANG or Hedge Funds, your hourly pay will be as bad as for any other job. The high salaries come from working LONGER HOURS (e.g. 90+ for IBD and around 70 for Top Management Consulting). Sometimes you actually earn less than your peers who have a cozy corporate job rotting for 30 hours and only working 5 hours a week at best.
High-Status Fallacy
Again, unless you are the cream of the crop at FAANG or Hedge Funds and fall within Top 5% of performers, no one cares about you. There are simply too many other high performers for you to be relevant.
The average normie or beckie won't know what McKinsey is and will think everyone who works in IT works at Google and give 0 shits about you. It's simply not impressive to work 80 hours a week and earn less than your peers on an hourly basis.
Bright Future Ahead Fallacy
Some think that you become a Law Firm or Goldman Sachs Partner earning 7-figure every year if you work hard enough. This is simply not true, since most people can't handle the high stress environments and high workloads and leave within 2 years.
Even if you don't leave and stay grinding, the chances of you getting promoted to equity positions are close to nill.
Most exit into other normal hour jobs and become subhumans and look 5 years older than their corporate peers that drop the pen at 5pm after actual 30 minutes of hard work per day.
Becoming a Millionaire Fallacy
If you do the math, even an Investment Banker will take over 10 years to become a liquid millionaire. Being employed is just not the way to go. From an efficiency perspective it doesn't make sense to be employed if you want to become rich. There are other ways to earn money with arbitrage value.
Stress and Overworking + Aging
What you do get is sleepless nights, hairloss and looking older. After 2 years at Goldman you will look like a subhuman, feel like one and no one even knows what Goldman Sachs is.
Your only friends will be a circle of irrelevant circlejerkers working in Private Equity that rent the VIP section at a high class bar to impress Beckies while 6'4 Corporate Chad fucks a stacy off Instagram DMs every day.
As an Ivy League grad who has seen it all and is a wagie himself, time to get you subhumans back to reality.
High Pay Fallacy
Unless you work in FAANG or Hedge Funds, your hourly pay will be as bad as for any other job. The high salaries come from working LONGER HOURS (e.g. 90+ for IBD and around 70 for Top Management Consulting). Sometimes you actually earn less than your peers who have a cozy corporate job rotting for 30 hours and only working 5 hours a week at best.
High-Status Fallacy
Again, unless you are the cream of the crop at FAANG or Hedge Funds and fall within Top 5% of performers, no one cares about you. There are simply too many other high performers for you to be relevant.
The average normie or beckie won't know what McKinsey is and will think everyone who works in IT works at Google and give 0 shits about you. It's simply not impressive to work 80 hours a week and earn less than your peers on an hourly basis.
Bright Future Ahead Fallacy
Some think that you become a Law Firm or Goldman Sachs Partner earning 7-figure every year if you work hard enough. This is simply not true, since most people can't handle the high stress environments and high workloads and leave within 2 years.
Even if you don't leave and stay grinding, the chances of you getting promoted to equity positions are close to nill.
Most exit into other normal hour jobs and become subhumans and look 5 years older than their corporate peers that drop the pen at 5pm after actual 30 minutes of hard work per day.
Becoming a Millionaire Fallacy
If you do the math, even an Investment Banker will take over 10 years to become a liquid millionaire. Being employed is just not the way to go. From an efficiency perspective it doesn't make sense to be employed if you want to become rich. There are other ways to earn money with arbitrage value.
Stress and Overworking + Aging
What you do get is sleepless nights, hairloss and looking older. After 2 years at Goldman you will look like a subhuman, feel like one and no one even knows what Goldman Sachs is.
Your only friends will be a circle of irrelevant circlejerkers working in Private Equity that rent the VIP section at a high class bar to impress Beckies while 6'4 Corporate Chad fucks a stacy off Instagram DMs every day.