<p>I’ll agree with monydad and hmom. I spent one year as an investment banker and four years working for a wealthy family in their direct equity investment arm and worked with alot of investment bankers. Aspects of the work were very interesting, though for me the proportion of the time devoted to sheer effort driving things through was higher than I liked. After I left and started a consulting firm that occupies most of my time, I helped start a couple of hedge funds. What the hedge funds did was less interesting for me than the i-banking advisory work so I never was that active in them, except for contributing ideas and talking to investors. [There are areas of the hedge fund arena like global macro that I would probably find fascinating but don’t think I’d be any good at]. I sold my interest in one fund and we shut the other one a few years ago. But, I think there are areas of investment banking that are really interesting. There are others where you just cookie-cutter a kind of transaction and slam them out. The latter areas aren’t for me.</p>