<p>I'm wondering why you're even thinking MBA when you want a 9-5 job. You will not meet many in B school who share that goal. Now many want to retire by 45, but they know they'll work like dogs until that point.</p>
<p>Los - who get into what? Top B-schools, and then an Associate position?</p>
<p>The answer is, people whose undergrad major was "Business" tend to be less analytically-oriented and less high-achieving. It's a statistical fact. If you want to end up at a top investment bank, and/or a top B-school, there's a relatively prescribed manner in which you do that. There are many paths, of course, but by far the most common is:</p>
<p>1) Attend a top-20 undergrad school (top 10 helps more, HYP helps even more)
2) Major in a heavily-analytical field (Economics, Mathematics, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, any other engineering major.
3) Get a 3.6 GPA or better
4) Get an internship in finance the summer after your junior year. Be presentable, articulate, have good (even if canned) reasons for wanting to go into finance. In your internship, work your bloody ass off, yes-sir everybody, be both liked and respected.
5) Get an offer from your internship firm. Senior year, interview at a bunch of financial places. Take a position.
6) Work your ass off at the ibank position you take (we're talking 16-hour days on a regular basis, if not more), for 2 years, possibly 3.
7) Write a compelling case for admittance to a top B-school.
8) Get in, attend. Make connections. Interview for a million awesome jobs.
9) PROFIT!</p>
<p>10) Commit suicide at age 30.</p>
<p>Just had to lighten the discussion a little bit. :)</p>
<p>That step would fall in somewhere in the middle, not after #9.</p>
<p>True.</p>
<p>6.5) Commit suicide.</p>
<p>Why kill yourself when you're about to reap the benefits? I say if you're gonna commit suicide, do it much much earlier in the process :p</p>
<p>10) Marry someone who can really enjoy the money because you'll be at the office 18/hrs day! Did anyone else see the story of the milkshake murder? Beautiful wife kills IBer husband because she didn't want to share the kids or the $18 million.</p>
<p>No, don't do that.</p>
<p>10) Marry someone who makes even more money than you, buy a huge condo at the Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park City, and live happily ever after.</p>
<p>Someone asked about marketing.</p>
<p>Marketing still requires decently long hours and your days will vary. It could be 40-70 hours a week, depending on what you are working on and what type of project, brand, event, etc.</p>
<p>Tons of fun might I add.</p>
<p>What exactly are job titles for "marketing", "consulting", or "sales"?</p>
<p>Marketing:
- Assistant Brand Manager
- Brand Manager
- Associate Director
- Marketing Director
- Business Analyst
- Marketing Manager</p>
<p>Sales:
- Account Rep
- Account Manager
- Account Executive
- Senior Account Executive
- Category Development Account Executive
- Associate Director
- Director
- Customer Business Development Manager
- General Manager
- etc.
The Majority of jobs in business are sales so there is tons of variation and the list can go on and on. These are jobs from my company.</p>
<p>Ooohh.. So what do those people do on a daily basis (janitors clean, accountants number crunch, etc).</p>
<p>Consulting:
- Analyst
- Associate (occasionally Junior and/or Senior Associates)
- Manager (or Engagement Manager, or Senior Manager...)
- Partner (might be Junior Partner / Principal, & Senior Partner)</p>
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<p>See, now that's a good wife - she even does the suicide for you!!! :p</p>