Why lift weights when you could be an investment banker?

>>41143097
why not both?

>>41143097
I lift weights and I'm a day trader, tfw making mad financial and aesthetic gainz at the same time in the gym.

>>41143104
FPBP

OP btfo

The most aesthetic guy at my gym earns 6 figures.

>tfw mimicing everything he does and still look like shit
>tfw also unemployed
>tfw he also has a pretty gf that i see with him at the gym sometimes

How do I know this information? well I look at my gyms facebook page and see him on there, then I found his LinkedIn profile and saw his job title, and that his job has an average wage in this area of $146,000.

>>41143159
what does he do

>>41143097
what's stopping you from being both?

But that is basically what I am looking to do anon

>tfw currently getting a bachelor's at uni
>tfw I have plenty of time right now to focus on fitness

I feel like I made the right choice here honestly

>>41143097
why can't you park, or u american?

Working 70+ hours a week. Hard pass.

>>41143097
Why not marry an investment banker and spend your time lifting weights and cooking?

>>41143265
Yeah fuck that, I work 2 days a week as a fireman cause I enjoy doing it, and day trade in my free time and that's enough to earn me about 120k this past year, will be considerably more next year as I'm dumping more money into trading, but I'm free to do what I want almost all day everyday

>>41143293
Seriously considering a career as a trophy husband

t.20 year old

>>41143097

I invested in a fresh Juice press startup, the machine is pretty expensive at 400$ but im confident i'll make my money back when they start selling.

>>41143148
>I'm a day trader
what platform do you use? What screener? Have you tried long term investing? Or do you eschew any type of fundamental analysis?

Why lift when you could just win the lottery and be born handsome?

>>41143343
I got a degree in mechanical engineering and this shit is boring as fuck.

I was thinking of becoming a fireman myself

>>41144192
Sorry but you're fucked
The market is already saturated and I can by a good juicer for 50-100$
Plus, most people don't juice anymore, and it's not even that healthy
Sorry anon, you got Ryan Howard'd

>>41144448
>Plus, most people don't juice anymore

Did I miss out on a juicing fad or something

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>2008
>+5
>Investment banking
Not gonna make it.

>>41143173
ur mom xdd

>>41144474
Nutribullet and that ninja whatever blew up a couple of Christmases back.

How can I buy stocks when every online thing like etrade wants me to have $50K in their account?

>>41144534
robinhood

>>41143097
Investment bankers will be the first ones marched the guillotines when society collapses

>>41144372
It's pretty rad, I'm 31 so I'm probably only gonna do it for 5-10 more years, I make more in stocks anyways but I love fighting fire, it's a rewarding, challenging and exciting experience, it pays shit but the schedule is so good it doesn't matter, at least most departments

>>41144574
Lmao not in our lifetime you watch too many movies

>>41144542
What's the catch?

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>>41144574
tbqh I'd rather start with hollywood, but that's just me.

>>41144534
Start with Robin Hood, if you do ok get a think or swim account

>>41144598
They sell your info.

>>41144598
It has less options, no decent charts etc, it's perfect for getting your feet wet and I still use it for smaller trades cause no fee is pretty nice

>>41144596
Sooner than you think.
You can't have so many people doing literally nothing and skimming off the top

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>>41144625
Cuck

>>41144192
>>41144448
>>41144474
>>41144525
w-what type o juice are we talking about here bois?

>>41144625
>collecting and analyzing data to help governments and corporations make decisions
>managing the capitalization of new ventures
>underwriting
>connecting large investors to ventures in need of capital
You have no idea what you're talking about. Do you think investment bankers work 90 hour weeks doing literally nothing and magically charging for it? It's a service industry like coaching and medicine, so don't start with some Cletus bullshit about "they don't make nothin."

You must be either a Bernout or a major-league flyover yokel.

>>41144772
I swear some people were born economically illiterate, like dyslexia or something.

>>41144772
All of Wall Street is a scam. hahaha. Underwriters are how many banks and firms make their money. It is inherently corrupt.

>>41144950
>hahaha

VERY impressive rebuttal

B U R N O U T
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>t. yalls future

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>>41144753

This one

>>41145021
Where do i stick my dick in? For $400 it better also give a damn good blowjob.

>>41143097
because my daddy doesn't work in the city and none of my relatives do so it's improbable i'd ever get above "generic overworked quant on low 6 figures no. 463656", plus i don't find finance interesting in the slightest
it's a shit life and only 18 year olds who don't know any better aspire towards it

>Why be a sick shredded cunt when you could be a pencil neck little shitstain who has to pay for sex?

You tell me

>>41143159
pro-tip: he's on test

>>41144487
>2008
>+5
>=Current year - 4
Not gonna make it.

lol you fucking fags think investment banking is any good to make $$$, even worse, some of you mentioned day trade...

at the age of 27 I do marketing and strategic consulting for roughly 20 hours a week as a freelancer and make ~300k a year.

get your shit together and find a job that is actually respected and pays well.

>>41143148

>day trader
>making mad financial gainz

Yeah right

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>>41145241
Fucking newfag neck yourself or lurk more.

>>41143097

Being an IB is a fucking shit lifestyle I don't know why anyone finds that garbage appealing. I'll take 50% of the salary with 1000% less stress in STEM thank you very much

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>>41145424
>1000% less stress in STEM

>>41145396
Tell me how to get where you are, then.

>>41144192
don't worry anon I read HN, I get your joke :^)

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>>41145396
>consulting
>respected

>>41145424
>1000% less stress in STEM

i want you to email me when you graduate and find a job and work for 2 weeks you sack of cunt

>>41144192
You dumbass, I'll just squeeze the bags.

>>41145451

Yes, I'm an engineer and I occasionally work with IB's. 18 hour days flying all over the country does not sound appealing to me in the slightest.

>>41145479

I graduated 5 years ago with a M.S. and have been working since. If you honestly find this stressful you must be pretty fucking pathetic.

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>>41145396
I'm studying a BA in Marketing and have freelanced promotional videos, made 1.5K so far on it, when I have the freetime from part-time retail work and studying. Hoping to score 15K from a academic trust who want promotion.

How do you get into marketing and strategic consulting, what is the first steps? And is that average pay?

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>>41145485
This must be the prop desk at citigroup.

>>41145479
It's not stressful, maybe you're just a brainlet who can't prioritise

t. engineer in a ""stressful"" field

>>41145480

Then why is there a 4 ton press ??

>>41145470
be fucking good at what you do. I spent the first 5 years of my career learning everything about online marketing (including in my free time because I enjoy this shit), still updating my knowledge every week since it's a rapidly changing environment. also networking naturally comes easy for me, that helped as well I guess

point is, modern society rewards specialisation, first specialise and when people see you're bloody good at what you do you can go for the leadership jobs that require you to know the big picture. just never let anybody push you down and tell you to remain a specialist because those on top will do it if they see you rising. be determined, brutally honest and cruel if need be, working ain't a playground and no place to make friends.

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>>41143148
>day trader
Ya ok buddy, I have a Robinhood account too

>>41145511
see >>41145573

some more info:
I worked for the same company for 5 years, 2 during uni and 3 afterwards. made a heckload of connections during those years which is quite easy in marketing I must say, you go around a lot and talk to a lot of people. Me being really fucking good (this is not bragging) at all this online marketing crap made those people ask me for advice, I realized I could make money out of it so I started putting price tags on those advices and the consulting I did after the office hours at my primary job, so it all started on the side really...

then came a point when it was just not feasible anymore to do both the consulting and the fulltime job so I said fuck it and went freelance. My previous employer is still one of my main clients and they pay me 3 times more for 1/10th of the job, it's crazy what companies are willing to pay for honest and sound advice and expertise...

I honestly don't know if this is the average pay, it all depends on the clients desu, you could do the same job and make only 50k a year with shit clients, but I always told them they need to pay good money to get good service and priced myself well above the average so I weeded out the useless crap clients pretty fast...

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>>41145678
Any sites/books/sources for your knowledge in marketing. Would really love to get an insight of knowledge from guys actually grafting in the business. Rather than the drool i'm reading from books assigned to us at uni, multi-channel PR etc.

Real sound practical advice if you have the time man, a website or something

>>41145759
books there are a couple, websites as well, but the best you can do is find a company with a marketing genius, work for them and siphon all the knowledge.

also: don't look for info on what to do, that's all bullshit, look for sites like whichtestwon, beetle, awwwards, etc. these show you what other companies do who are brilliant in marketing. marketing is 90% stealing from the best out there and 10% innovation. also make a separate email address, register with it on successful sites and subscribe to as many newsletters as possible to see what companies are doing, some good ones to start with are amazon, zalando, chubbies, eaglemoss, these are all brilliant in their own way.

>>41145827
Cheers mate, best of luck in your future

>>41144594
Hell yeah man, I'm a single male so I don't need a whole lot of money to sustain myself, plus it seems really rewarding

I am an investment banker (23 yo, analyst), AMA

I wouldn't work investment banker/sales hours even for a mid six figure salary.

No amount of money in the world is worth hundreds of hours of stress every month.

>>41145861
hope my rambling was at least somewhat helpful. good luck to you too pal and don't forget to have fun while working your ass off.

>>41143159
That last sentence is pretty embarrassing, but I appreciate your diligence in citing your sources.

>>41143097
Because to be an investment banker means:
>beginning early enough (start studying with at least 18, never later)
>have top 1% grades
>have contacts in the highest positions
>be able to work over 60 hours a week

Lifting weights is easy, you need only 3 times a day 45 minutes of lifting to look good in 2 or 3 years with a good amount of strength, if you want to be an investment banker, and I speak from a successful one, you must be the top 1% male in terms of intellectual genetics.

>>41145451
Brah, I'm studying a STEM subject. I don't start learning 2 months before the exams and do a magical trick almost every successful student use:

Old exams

>>41143097
Is that natty?

>>41144496
Damn, I've talked with a lot of rich people on the internet before.