For those of you guys who are interested in interning in Investment Banking - I feel for you! Only a little bit though and here's why. The HOURS ARE BRUTAL during the Summer at least. My friends who are interning in banking work a crap load of hours. I definitely miss hanging out with them and in the beginning of the summer I would text them later and later to see if they were free. They were not free! Now, I don't even really text them to see if they can come out. My text messages now are more like "I miss you! I understand that you're grinding it out at work EVEN AT THIS HOUR, but I just wanted to remind you that I am thinking about you."
The way I think of the banking life may be different from what it is really. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I didn't even want to text them during the day because I didn't think that they were even allowed to check their phones at their desks hahaah. I'm sure it's not THAT bad because I do get responses from them when I do text during the day, but I just know that they work an insane amount. Before business school I would think to myself "I COULD DO THAT FOR $XXX,000/YEAR) but after a year of B-school and having a better understanding of what they're going through, I know that I couldn't do it even for that amount of money.
Speaking of money - something that I haven't really talked about that much lately - let's just say that I have a new reality in terms of the amount of $ I should believe I should make. I'll leave it at that.
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