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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much of this is relative. I started working for GS out of college and remember being PISSED when I made $200K at 22 years old. Like royally mad, because all my friends were making $300+. Never mind that most of my college friends were making $50K - that didn't matter. The relevant comparison set wasn't them, it was peers at other orgs. And in the world of finance, the ultimate measure of your self worth is your income.

The same has proven true since (I left finance). I now make "only" $400K or so - and have to constantly remind myself that it isn't normal. You end up friends with people in similar jobs and industries, so you completely forget that you live in a total microcosm.

Also, the hours are fucking god awful. Relationships become sex in a bathroom because when the fuck else are you gonna find time? Also, depending on where you are, drugs are rampant. I've had more than one friend leave because they just were getting out of control. [/quote]

I also had a friend working in finance who developed a drug problem so severe he had to leave NYC and move upstate with his parents.[/quote]

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