A. Then I feel sorry for you (and learn how to spell, "sweetie").
B. Believe me, I am neither "flaunting" nor "competing." I could care less who you are or what your credentials are, I just think you are sad.
C. I neither claim to be, nor want to be, a [insult vulgar, clearly demonstrative of your lack of command of English language or ability to describe a person, thing, or condition using appropriate or elegant language here] and my whole POINT (which you clearly were incapable of grasping) is that I do what I want to do BECAUSE it's what I want to do. I am not claiming to make the most money or have the biggest paycheck, but at least I can claim that I am doing what I want to do, not just posting random things on websites proclaiming that my motivation is money.
In any event, if you love your job, more power to you, but your original post did not read that way. In fact, it made you sound unbelievably shallow, uninteresting, and unintelligent.
But that's just my two cents....
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Originally posted by Rudey
A) I have my priorities straight. They are MY priorities sweety.
B) Don't flaunt your Ivy League Law degree. You don't know who you're competing with.
C) While working at firms like Skadden might make you money and even bigger money when you reach a senior level, you are not a big swinging dick in terms of what you make by any comparison to those in banking or trading.
I make a decent amount of money and I love what I do. I have a direct say in how the world is being developed. For example, I was in a conference call with Phil Angelides a couple weeks ago discussing California's debt structure as it stands right now. Tell me what other job offers that. My 26 year old friend is taking home about 20K in bonus every month because he's making that much every day for his firm by being one of the best traders on the floor.
Yes you work hard but you play hard. I work on average 80 hours a week and 120 hours isn't unheard of in my line of work every once in a while. I've been taken to incredible dinners, balls, parties, have full access to almost every sporting event and concert I can imagine, sometimes we rent party buses even. Once it's Saturday night all the bankers hit the bars and clubs and have a lot of fun. The time is hard people but I created this thread not for those who don't want to do it but for those who enjoy it. If you don't like it why post here right? Create a thread on professions you enjoy. It's just what I enjoy and I think other people might too so I was trying to find them.
People don't do this forever. At some point you move into ventures that require you putting up your own capital. By the time I'm 40 I might be retired. Who knows? I can pursue politics or religious studies. I don't want to just make it through life, I don't want to be comfortable and I don't want to be well off, I want to be filthy rich at some point. Those are my goals and I was just wondering if there were others out there that pursued that.
-Rudey
--Alphagam-alum were you making the currency sales decisions as a trader?
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