<p>"What do you want to be when you grow up?" More importantly, what do you want from it? </p>
<p>Would you work 70 hours a week as an investment banker (or whatever else) and make a ton of money? Or would you do something you love but make very little money?</p>
<p>this is a little blurb from a "where do you see yourself in 20 years" essay. </p>
<p>To spend most of my waking hours in a corporate office writing routine memos all day would be insufferable to me; however, that is not how I plan to spend my days in the corporate world. Instead, I plan to study international business as well as business related law before working as a consultant to the largest firms in the world. I want to use my talents in mathematics and logical thinking to influence mergers and acquisitions affecting the economic stability of countries all over the globe.</p>
<p>"Would you work 70 hours a week as an investment banker (or whatever else) and make a ton of money? Or would you do something you love but make very little money?"</p>
<p>I've always hated this generalization. It is always: "Would you rather work your ass off an make money, or do something you love?"</p>
<p>Who's to say that people who trade or do i-banking don't love their jobs as much as a teacher or journalist? Different jobs for differently dispositioned people.</p>
<p>Personally, I want to do i-banking and eventually prop trading.</p>
<p>Can't I have both? Why can't you make a lot of money and love your job too? It doesn't always have to be either or.</p>
<p>I certainly plan on doing both</p>
<p>Corporate lawyers make large amounts of money, and it is a field I will enjoy. I, like others, don't see why this has to be framed as a choice.</p>
<p>Of course, when I introduced this topic, I was going to add "of course you could have both." But this is a discussion topic where tradeoffs must be made. We would all like to make a lot of money and be happy but face it, they are the lucky people.</p>
<p>big money and then retire and enjoy myself > work at a decent job i enjoy for entire life</p>
<p>Of course I would like both...but I want to do print journalism and I was just looking up salaries for editors wi****lly...not that high. I can't force myself to do something I don't like though -- I don't produce. Not enough self-disipline I guess? So I'll probably just be poor;)</p>
<p>someone want to explain how that's a swear? the word was wist fully</p>
<p>s t f u stands for shut the ___ up</p>
<p>there you go, fortune</p>
<p>Not to be pessimistic, but we all have this dream job, yet it is true that only a few of us will succeed to this. We all hope that we'll be able to be completely satisfied, and well paid, yet I think that we'll have to compromise with ourselves. This we have to accept.</p>
<p>As for that swear...wist fully...has st fu in it..which means... "shut the...etc"....</p>
<p>Indy..I would edit your post..the mods wont appreciate that.</p>
<p>yes, I change my mind so much about my future occupation I doubt I'll be disappointed with what I become because chances are I wanted to be that sometime along the road (currently it's a physical therapist)</p>
<p>what does a corporate lawyer do?</p>
<p>ah that makes sense...not thinking very clearly right now. it does seem kind of weird that they'd edit that out, but I guess they're thorough</p>
<p>corporate lawyers advise business on legal issues. there are tons of laws regulating bussinesses and nobody wants to be sued (or miss out on a chance to sue). Merk is in the crapper and corporate lawyers are getting rich.</p>
<p>I would hate to be a corporate lawyer. I once wanted to be one until I realized traders make more money and have more thrilling work.</p>
<p>you get to travel a lot as a corporate lawyer and you also make tons of money. i think it is a very nice career. i'm looking into investment banking.</p>
<p>don't investment bankers have to work ridiculous amounts of hours? i don't see the point of doing something just to make a lot of money if you never have the time to make use of that money.</p>
<p>That's the point. You make so much money that you have a big fat bank account and no time to spend it. Then, after the first five rough years, you'll have tons more and can have lots of fun with it.</p>