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[quote=Anonymous]Hahaha I love this thread.

So there's this joke, I periodically remember:

An MBA is trying to get a job, and an angel appears and says to him he can have a sneak peek at a job of his choice. He says he wants to be a management consultant. So the angel shows him a bunch of people working normal hours, they seem happy enough, there's a few steak dinners, a guy counting Starwood points and a girl attending a "Manicures and Martinis" post project debrief. The next night, the angel appears again and offers the man the chance to wake up as a real management consultant, job offer and all. The man jumps on it - "Sure! That looked great!" The next morning he wakes up and people are crying and screaming, and a divorced 40 year old man is punching a wall, the junior staff are eating snickers bars for dinner... And the man turns to the angel and says "What the fuck? This isn't the same! Where are the steak dinners, the easy going fat paycheck?"

The angel turns to him and says: "Oh that was the summer intern class."

The joke has staying power because its kind of true. The internships are 10 week sales job. The turnover is high at these firms - how else are they able to hire 30+ people across the top MBA programs every year...

And I laugh my ass off when one makes "Working Mother Magazine" or some such bullshit. They always profile the one partner who happens to harve carved out some kind of decent schedule, ignoring the 100+ others who are in golden handcuffs. Then, toss in a stat or two like "90% of staff work a flex schedule" (Since getting on an airplane Sunday night counts) and pinko presto you are normal!

My only regret in not going back is the income it affords. I make $170 to $190 a year now, I'd be at $220 to $250 if I'd gone back post MBA. Then again I'd be a miserable fuck. [/quote]

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