If you could have a career in anything, would it still be in IB?

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Yes. Love my job, hate the mgmt team and backstabbing b’s coworkers. If both of those things resolved, that’s all I need

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I wonder my IB work environment is so toxic. My friends from other industries don’t deal with backstabbing coworkers.

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So true VP1! Well said.

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