Going off of the last post, and like the dozen others I’ve seen over the past few months, what have y’all actually seen your SA, M, SM peers leave to do? It always gets asked as a hypothetical question of what’s possible and it’s the same answers, would rather hear what ur actually seeing people in ur firm move to.

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Fent zombie in a Walgreens parking lot

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where do i apply

Go into industry roles, FP&A roles, change careers entirely, or leave for a competitor to get different advisory experience (sick of pure FDD and the grind).

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Sorry didn’t understand the question. Varies a ton. Real estate, work in family business, take time off to travel and figure out stuff.

I recently went to corp dev but it took a lot of networking and I specialized in HC.

The exits were looking bleak though. FP&A was such a huge cut. I honestly was thinking of trying to do B4. MM was a lot of picking apart messy BS

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How are you liking it?

Most recently (within the year): MM IB associate and Platform/portco CD. Another one got so sick of M&A I guess that they went into fund accounting.

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Pretty sure just internal accounting at like a hedge/PE/VC fund.

FP&A at a LMM portco. LMM is where you get true experience with learning how to operate a business and help to professionalize it

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