Anyone else here secretly not care if they ever make it to the top of the ladder? I make good money, I'm able to keep an okay work life balance most weeks. I don't need more, and I'm over the cutthroat competitive nature of this industry.

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Anyone making that claim is not FO IB, unless you’re maybe a senior director but not MD, and even then, unlikely.

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Yes. But it’s also a realization that it ain’t gonna happen for me. And I am/have to be okay with that

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I'm the same way. I've always enjoyed being a worker bee with no interest in getting into management or climbing a ladder. However, many people see that as unambitious and lack of bettering yourself (which is completely untrue). I hate the mentality that work must be the most important thing in our lives and we should be obsessed with it.

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Yeah I am with you, it’s evident that those at the top seem to hate their lives. I try to live beneath my means so that I can avoid the resentment of working hard to pay off any debt. And don’t let your work define who you are, I see that becoming a trap for folks.

Yep, I don’t care if I make it to the next level.

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