![]() I experienced the same phenomenon: I attended a T-15 school, studied computer science, interned at top tech companies such as LinkedIn, Lyft, and Twitch, and I was miserable. You played the wrong game and now you accomplished everything you set out for and you still feel empty and not self-actualized. #TWITCH LAST OASIS PROFESSIONAL#These goal(s) are just adopted mimetic desires that come from being over socialized in culture that idolized corporate tycoons and a gilded professional plutocracy such as Bezos, Musk, Gates. I'll be honest too many people put too much worth and attach their identity on academic and corporate prestige I know that I did, but in the long run while attending Cornell and working at McKinsey is a great way to achieve status it won't bring you life-long happiness and fulfillment. have many of those conversations, and again, the holy trinity of low risk, low stress, and high pay DOES NOT EXIST. learn their story, how did they get to where they are, what's their current day to day lifestyle like. I say remotely achievable because you won't get much help from lebron james or a billionaire tech founder, but you could get a lot from a small PE firm principal who doesn't have a huge fund but makes great coin and has a great life. Here's what I'd do if I were you - interview people who are in remotely achievable jobs for you and have lives you want to lead, not jobs you want to copy. I know a director of a FoF who lives in a ski town, has a compact clientele, maybe travels 6 times a year for business and has tons of time to be with his young kids, makes great money as well. for example, is able to make his money while travelling a significant amount, and that seems to give him the reset he needs. I know it's possible, but you have to create the environment, it won't come at you in the form of a linkedin headhunter. take a pause, turn inward, and ask yourself what you really really want out of life and then build a plan to go there. Not to belabor the point I've said on here for close to a decade, most people with dissatisfaction in their jobs aren't necessarily in the wrong jobs, but they've not taken the time to reflect on their priorities, they want something that doesn't exist (low risk, low stress, high pay, can't have all 3), or both. sure you can exit to another PE firm but it'll be more of the same, maybe a slightly less soul sucking asset class like TMT and then when you get promoted to VP and have a fundraising quota your sleep quality deteriorates even more because you have to eat what you kill and sure the money's great but your blood pressure will rise almost in lockstep with your W-2, but it's alright because your carry will get you fuck you money by 40 so you can sacrifice a little bit now. Stability and intensity ultimately depend on people and luck rather than the job itself and I just feel tired attempting to hit the jackpot. Whether it is buyside or sellside, it is the same group of people. Working on deal admin, data mining that is known as due diligence and facing same type of pressures as above.Īnyone else also feeling lost? I just don't see any way out. Lots of applications and lots of time spent on refreshing basic technical knowledge, finding excuse to buy time for interviews on a workday, requesting for coffee chats, etc.Īt the end of the day, I may still end up with the same time of job. But the recruitment process is very exhausting. Originally, I felt like quitting and switching jobs would be something worth to consider. Layoff continues and bosses are even more demanding now when layoffs are happening. I have switched jobs a few times but then the job nature doesn't change. I don't hate the job much but the job itself is very depressing everyday under intense mental pressure (MD/D chasing non-stop for trivial stuff, seeing layoffs happening on the street, demanding clients asking non-sense). Hi all, worked a few years in buy/ sell-side. ![]()
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