<p>A friend of mine graduated from MIT 2 years ago. He now makes 500k in investment banking.</p>
<p>find something you'll like to do and you'll never work another day the rest of your life...</p>
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<p>find something you'll like to do and you'll never work another day the rest of your life...
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<p>That's pretty true.</p>
<p>Exactly, soccerguy.</p>
<p>All people who work only for the money are fools, trifling idiots who end up wasting away their lives and wondering what they could have better spent time on.</p>
<p>Make something of your life... money is nothing. If you like what you do, the money will come, so long as you are willing to dedicate yourself to it.</p>
<p>Such a damned materialist society we have!</p>
<p>Yep. But the pressures of the world today create this materialistic mindset. My inner wittle boy is probably not like this, but the world has shaped me this way.</p>
<p>Anyway that's some great advice you guys gave, an it's true, a crappy job, no matter how high paying, is really wasting your life. But see my plan was this:</p>
<p>Go to a prestigious college and university, become a rich guy/lawyer, retire early and become a buddhist who plays electric guitar. On his yacht. In Hawaii.</p>
<p>Can't go to a prestigious college with grades like yours, Nick, sorry.</p>
<p>Investment banking is so hit or miss though</p>
<p>To be succesful in that, major in econ or finance, but I think prestige of college doesn't matter as much as for investment banking as most professions</p>
<p>hyp2010: "A friend of mine graduated from MIT 2 years ago. He now makes 500k in investment banking."</p>
<p>I find this extremely hard to believe since your friend would still be an analyst. Is your friend a banker or a trader? </p>
<p>thoughtprocess: "To be succesful in that, major in econ or finance, but I think prestige of college doesn't matter as much as for investment banking as most professions"</p>
<p>A major in finance or econ. can give one an edge in certain aspects of the recruiting proess, but it is not required in any sense. Furthermore, I think the prestige of the school is extremely important as most investment banks recruit heavily from certain schools. This is not to say someone from a non-prestigious school cannot be an investment banker at a great wall st. firm since they most certainly can if they are stand outs, but it will just be harder to get the attention of firms.</p>
<p>JWblue, i meant that usually it depends on your skills as an analyst, which depend more on your ability rather than prestige</p>
<p>and majoring in econ/finance always helps just because it gives you a background in looking at data and analyzing it (though you have to relearn everything anyways)</p>
<p>It is correct to say that once you're in an i-banking job, the prestige of your college will mean a lot less (though it may still count for something, I can tell you that old school ties on wall st. don't hurt). However, my point is that getting the job from a school which is "prestigious" (ie one knows to attract a lot of investment banks to on campus recruiting) is much easier than one not on the recruiting list. </p>
<p>And yes, to be a successful banker, one would need a firm grasp of certain finance and econ. concepts (though this can be achieved without having a college major in such).</p>
<p>i found a list in the book "Cool Collegs for teh hyper intelligent, strange, independently minded, or just plain gifted" (the title is something along those lines) (its a great book, any soph and juniors out there should pick it up) that has the 5 highest and 5 lowest paying college majors. (apparenlty somebody actually did a study of that, i guess it must be based on lifetime assets, or maybe average salary ten years after grad.. anyways. 4 of the top 5 are _____ engineering, and the other is some business thing. The lowest are education, physical education, environmental studies, and two others that i cant recall, but which wouldnt suprise you either.</p>
<p>i plan on doing some math/econ undergrad, then doing some MBA/actuarial sciences at grad school and starting off as an actuary, maybe move up the corporate ladder. makes money, but still a 9-5 job, little stress.</p>
<p>i-banking sounds so risky it scares me. maybe i dont understand it but moving around big sums of money is def. not my thing.</p>
<p>Math/Econ is actually a great, sort of typical combo for finance people as well as actuarials.</p>
<p>Too bad the original poster only wants an easy job, because these things aren't easy.</p>
<p>Nothing in life is easy.. I guess it'll be a struggle to survive until I get run over by a bus or get a heart attack or something...</p>
<p>And yeah seems like a top college is out of the question for me... Although my grades have significantly improved in the past month and I'm only in 10th grade.</p>
<p>howabout wait til you research stuff in college or try out fields dont ask CC ppl....no matter how much advice they may have in 4-5 yrs the job scene may change</p>