People who have made it to the perceived “top/best” place in their career field/education (MBB, FAANG, top PE fund, HSW, etc): do you feel satisfied? Have you had to recalibrate your goals? If so, what are those goals?

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It never ends. It’s a perpetual race to “prestige” and it’s meaningless but there’s some pressure to chase after that. A lot of my cohort is exiting to PE funds and FAANG in a bit and for me, I feel like I have to do that next, too. (Even though I completed an internship as a SWE at FAANG and didn’t like it.)
But I’m also taking a hard look on what I actually want to do, and I honestly just want to write and draw all day. I don’t know how that can be a part of me beyond being hobbies but certainly thinking of alternative master programs other than (just) business school.

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I agree on selectivity, not so much on salary. A lot of roles are prestigious but don’t pay a lot (e.g. TFA, political roles, etc)

You think it will make you happy, but it doesn’t. Nobody cares and you’re still you.

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I’m living my dream

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I used to do strat/ops at a FAANG and I'd see all these folks in our group with so much prestige, like HYP-MBB-PE-HS and we're all still making these sillyass slides sometimes. It makes me wonder, what's the point of all this?

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There’s no point. We’re all in the rat race and slaves to an insatiable hunger that is rooted in our insecurities. Life is too short to walk down a path without knowing why we’re on it

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McKinsey was the best 2 years of my life - incredible people, paid way more than I deserved, and felt like my projects really mattered. I recently took a secondment with a lower prestige company, but it’s a company whose products I’m passionate about. I’m similarly happy/satisfied with life now as I was at McKinsey, despite much lower prestige.

At our levels (ie doing “fine” financially compared to most of the world) I think 80% of it is a mindset/attitude and 20% is actually based on your company (caveat for crazy bosses, life situations, etc)

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Agree with the what most have already said. I joined a “prestigious” hedge fund after working in academia. I’m way less happy. Honestly if I knew what I know now, I’d probably wouldn’t have come.

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I think there will always be additional hoops to jump through and peers to compare yourself against. I went from HYP to MBB and never feel satisfied as I’m generally chasing some new accomplishment and thinking I could be doing better (e.g., getting the best ratings, getting into HSW). Not sure how healthy it is to be this way but it is what it is.

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It’s satisfying but never completing. Accomplishing anything that very few people can is always a great feeling. But That isn’t always correlated with happiness

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I would imagine that top PE fund pays the most? I mean if you’re at black rock, you could make your way to millions of dollars like 10-30 million based on deals etc ?

Let me say two things

1. That range is top .01% at PE firms
2. I have a friend of a friend legit that closed a deal that made him over 8 million

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I made it to where I thought I wanted to be (Strategy focus reporting to a F100 CEO) and all it did was help me realize what I really wanted to do, which was work with non-profits in education.

Older I get the less igaf

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