Have an IB offer at a bulge bracket in NYC...convince me to stick with consulting

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Fuck it. GO. !!!

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Just the fact that I wouldn't have to get on a fucking plane again is too tempting to turn down IB.

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Define bulge bracket? Never heard that term

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You will have to work with the same people and do the same thing every day for the foreseeable future.

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what do you want to do in the future? Hours probably significantly worse. Bonus definitely significantly higher.

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Do you love the weekends? Then don't do IB . Do you love money? Do IB

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IB sucks. You have no life outside of work...much worse than consulting. And you work weekends. However, if you're single, don't care about having time for friends and family, can function with 4 hours of sleep on a regular basis (or do coke), and can work with assholes for at least a year, maybe banking isn't so bad. The money is much better than consulting...like A LOT better. Suck it up for a year or two and move on.

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Now your sales and trading uncle will stop thinking that you work in back office operations and constantly give you "career enhancing tip"....

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Go!

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I have friends who are at 95k base with 55k bonuses as second years -- and most of their food is paid for because they're almost always in the office. As far as lifestyle, some of them can leave for hours at a time in the afternoons because most of the actual work drops late at night. This isn't a rule, but an interesting datapoint nonetheless

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I feel like that's not that much money... Thought it'd be much higher considering the lifestyle expectations

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Sooooo what's bulge bracket?

^en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulge_bracket

I would stay here...IB sucks

How much do 20 something IBers actually make

Couple of my friends are pulling like $90k base and $40k bonus as 2nd years

Yeah I've heard a lot of times the days are slow and then all the work is like 8p-1am. Why can't they figure out how to have a normal schedule?

Have some IB buddies. Same story. They can't do a lot of their work until the market closes.

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