I deserve to feel superior, not because I'm a narcissist, but because I have wasted my 20s for success instead of wasting for having fun.

Really agree and appreciate this! Feel like the same kind of person as OP, sometimes would like to use "utilitarian" to describe. I'm just a junior and gotSAfrom a topBB,有时还想要som变得懒惰e fun, but feel extremely regretted and self-accused after. Hope can do things better like you

I'm not trying to sound like a dick, but why are you seeking validation from people on the internet who are probably less than half as successful as you? Like you literally made it in terms of financial freedom and yet you still seem insecure about your life decisions. Do you really need people telling you that you did the right thing in building your success by grinding instead of getting drunk and banging hookers?

你听起来像一个失败者……

We all make choices in our life. What's productive and important to you is not to someone else. If you want to slave away your 20's go ahead. Others can have equally fulfilling lives without needing to work 100 hr weeks. Now I'm closer to your camp in that I will most likely be working a lot more than most of my friends, it's what I enjoy, it's what I chose to do and it will (hopefully) get me to where I want to be. However, it doesn't make me 'superior' to anyone else.

PM in HF - Other

I deserve to feel superior to someone

You don't deserve to feel superior to anyone. If you think you're superior than your waiter getting your food or superior than the 'help,' you're living your life the wrong way.

People shouldn't feel superior as each person should be treated with loving care and kindness. Life isn't about climbing up a ladder and looking down on those who haven't climbed as high as you on the career totem pole. Everyone has their place and should be respected. Feeling superior sometimes leads to being a condescending asshole, which you should strive to avoid at all costs. If you gain all this career success, but can't treat your fellow man with respect, you in fact have accomplished nothing.

I have never seen a post that is so in between serious or a complete troll. I've read it multiple times and still can't figure out which it is, probably because there are many on this site who unironically talk like this.

I think this might be bottom bucket bardo except he made aHFaccount.

对每个人来说个性或爱好（除了在酒吧/俱乐部和其他无情的金融冲洗店中吹钱），他们一直花在PowerPoint中移动盒子或在模型中进行调整假设。您有权看着那些肯定比您少的钱的人，但我希望您有足够的社交意识来了解美国其他人的出于不同的原因而感到优越。

我以为这是讽刺 - 不是吗？

I Deserve To Feel Superior, Not Because I'm A Narcissist, But Because I Have Wasted My 20s For Having Fun Instead Of Wasting For Success.

I could have studied so much more instead of partying while so many people were studying and learning things all week during high-school .

I could have traveled for hours in college to meet bankers, financiers and family friends to network, and studied all weekend instead of fucking so many girls.

I could have wasted my summers on internships instead of taking different trips to Asia, Europe, America and Caribbeans to enjoy my summers.

我本来可以花20多岁的年代追逐老板，浪费一天的工作，并为妓女付费，因为我没有时间有稳定的关系，而不是享受他们。

I could have taken shit loads of drugs along with alcohol to not feel burnt out while partying instead of partying like normal people.

I deserve to feel superior to someone who works in high finance. Instead of having to work 8-12 hours, sometimes 7 days a week in my late 30s, and spending tens of thousands of dollars and do extreme things to feel happy and excited, I work 8 hours a day, enjoy my time with my family, protest for socialism, wait with excitement for a trip that I will take once year, wait in line for hours to buy the new Iphone, and have vanilla sex with random girls to feel happy.

If you didn't waste, and are not wasting your time in high-finance post-2008 with one of the lowest salaries in the history of finance, you deserve to feel more superior than them. It was already hard for them when they were making over a million after 5 years in IB pre-2008, now they're working 80 hours for what 300k-600k ? There is nothing wrong with feeling superior while avoiding that shit.

Use your money to help others too, don't be a useless douchebag. If you know a poor family, help them, and don't give a single cent to IOs.(idk what IOs are)

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weird....

Agree that this seems like a troll post, though there may be a hint of truth.

在我看来,如果你说没关系(或夜n great) to feel superior precisely because you feel inferior or are insecure in some ways. I've achieved all these magnificent things, I deserve to trample those who haven't done the great things that I did. Who cares man? We're rewarded for our ability to allocate asset pretty much because we were born in this day and age. Born pretty much any other time, our heads could be on a spike for any reason. We need to realize how fortunate we are to be born in the right place at the right time. There is no reason to feel superior because the foundation of your success was predicated upon a string of fortuitous events.

大讽刺...

Everything else aside, there's nothing wrong w/ paying for whores (as long as they're unaffordable for most) or popping adderall / doing some nose clams whenever you drink.

Agree that you set yourself up for success but why feel superior? Like in the event this is real (and if it's not then oh well I've wasted time), making tons of sacrifices is an entirely personal and self-serving choice while has probably yielded you a great income/network/apartment/future but like if other people you're interacting with haven't done the same, then it's all good. Doesn't make you better and certainly doesn't give you the right to be a dick. Different strokes for different folks and I wholly believe in treating all folks as equals. Rarely a bad outcome with that.

I feel superior to whoever wrote this post, tell ya that for free

The reason you feel inferior (and are thus making this post, seeking validation of your philosophy from strangers on the internet) is precisely because you are trying to logic your way into "why I'm superior to others". Meaning you implicitly assume that certain people are more or less valuable than other people.

Judging others in this way also implicitly condemns yourself -- internalizing the belief that your value as a human is not inherent, but instead relative to the competition. And in this totem pole of human's worth, there will always be people "more valuable / more worthy" than you. And you will likely always be angry at "less worthy" people who have things that you do not.

Counterintuitively, you will never find happiness until you realize that people are inherently valuable. We're all just here. We're all just searching for what matters. And we all need to do the best we can with that limited time.

Decide what matters to you in this world, rather than pursuing a perpetually fleeting feeling of superiority. Happiness and meaning are not a zero-sum game.

I don't care if I get crap for this because it needs to be said.

Choosing to work in finance and putting in the time and energy to succeed was your choice based on what you valued in life. To think you're better than someone else making far less than you, but has time to enjoy their lives is conceited and narcissistic when you remember that others don't think about you.

The whole post sounds as if you're trying to convince yourself that you made the right choices as you remanence of all of the things you never got to do and live a "normal" life. What even is that? Everyone has their own struggles, they differ by the individual. Social work undergrads struggle paying bills or landing in their field since it requires Masters.CSStudents have to compete just as intensely to stand out and differentiate themselves to place in FAANG. Law students work comparable hours to Bankers and Accounting students, although work less hours, earn slave wages. It's as if you're generalizing every one who you deemed to be "less successful" as if they didn't put in their effort in their own right in their own fields. Sure, not everyone is driven to chase their professional goals, but to think yourself superior simply because of your perceived success of others is just unsubstantiated and baseless.

How do you value success or superiority? By the number in your bank account? the financial security you amassed? By the times you've been rewarded in your pursuit to enter and thrive in the field? Not by the meaningful relationships you've sustained, or by simply feeling happy for the little things? Is that too vanilla of a happiness for someone in high finance?

最后，当您说服自己在银行业“为了更大的善利”中工作时，想回馈我的功利基础使我感到震惊。尽管我钦佩任何愿意捐款的人，但听起来听起来更加自我实现，并重申了您所制造的这种优越感。

Feeling superior and being superior are two different things. This right here... is small dick energy.

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I'm not sure you realise how sad this post reads..

feel however you want bubba. no one gives a chit.... whatever you need to keep fighting the good fight

Traditional "high finance" has not retained even a modicum of prestige since the 80s (all semblances of prestige were torn apart in 2007). Nowadays, any Tom, Dick and Harry who matriculates from a top 50 institution with above a 3.0 gpa can land any "high finance" job they want.

The only remaining bastions of prestige are also WASP playgrounds, which pretty much means you need to be a big boy with loaded and connected parents to access this prestige.

Havefun inIBD, S&T,ER,AM,VC,HF,PWMor whateverother low-paying role you were deluded into thinking by financial institutions into thinking are prestigious.

没关系。我感觉比你优越，所以你被允许比我优越

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Isn't getting pussy the ultimate validation of your success?

At least 9 people sb'd OP lol, bunch of single lonely losers

Shut it bozo,HFisn't nearly prestigious enough to feel superior, you better become aPEMFprincipal+, a corporate raider targettingMM/UMM (at least) or some founder of an advisory shop/HFto be as big ego'd as you sound

Also bozo, I was fucking mad broads in high school, undergrad AND myMBAand currently rake in 8mm total comp annually in my mid-20s, sounds like you were literally too braindead to have a social life while getting a 3.5+ gpa

Guys...This is a troll... This is the same guy who's posted about his fictitious sigma male nephew

What the fuck is this thread, lol?

The people who land topBB(MSGSJPM) in Investment Banking and absolutely go in and crush their 2 year stint, get really really fucking good exit ops (e.g.MFPE) and move on to subsequently keep crushing it afterwards. A lot ofBBbankers I know are good looking, helps if you played sports in college man.

Also if you have a chance to move toPE, you'll get a heck lot more sharper real fucking quick.

Finance is a long game - if you think you did banking and won the fucking lotto, you will be out of the industry in no time and won't hack the 2 yrs.

...also not every bank has you formatting logos... and if you're working 80-90 hours, surely some of those hours you're going to be learning something.

Either way, once you land inPE/HFor choose to go corporate, your skills will skyrocket. That's why it's a long game

You a pussy for that one

Hahahahhaa I could have this I could have that. NO you couldn't have dude shut the fuck up. That's what everyone says that's a fucking loser.

You couldn't have fucked shit whether you tried or not dude. Don't try and make any fucking excuses for yourself lmao. That's cool and all, you're inIB, and you're probably a fucking nerd, but no dude, you probably could not have fucked shit either way

I hate to say it but so many of you kids on here think that if you didn't pay so much attention to your studies that you could've fucked ass but that's just not true lmao.

The real ones can get a 3.5+ (myself) and still fuck tons of ass. It takes a different breed to live the best of both worlds lmao, I'm sorry that couldn't of been of you, I'm no trying to be a dick I'm just speaking facts

我可以我可以关闭the fuck up and live your fucking life with no regrets pussy.

You sound like such a bitch dude, go fuck lmao you only have ONE life ONE fucking life man. Relax on your stupid gen ed class and go try and fuck some ass dude.

I'm just being real with you man. You need to fuck some pussy before you consider yourself to be a legit man.

There's gonna be kids on here going against me, probably because they're fucking virgins too.

But I'm telling you man, life is TOO short to focus on only school and work.

Go get fucking laid buddy. Work and money isn't the only thing in life

ok seriously, how tf did the ravens lose to the dolphins last night

SOMEBODY...ANYBODY

weird flex but okay !

not too difficult to find the balance between partying and studying/working hard if you find the right crowd

AAA cringe, thanks.