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[quote=Anonymous]I am at an Investment Bank and I love it but I got there kinda of randomly and I can't imagine having gone through the normal path - grueling. It's bananas how many college kids think they want that path. Most will change their mind in a few years. I would tell your kid there are 3 groups at these ivies (I went to HYP and see a lot of the kids coming through now). 1) kids who truly know what they want to do - pre-med and or history professor or prosecutor and some others; 2) a larger group of kids who say they know what they want to do but a pretty much just making it up - I want to be an Ibanker or a consultant and I have a fancy summer internship. They aren't that likely to stick with it but they sound confident and assured now; and 3) the group of kids who really admit they don't know what they want. The trick for group #3 (which is what I was) is to NOT be intimidated by group #2. Just bc they sound like they know what they want doesn't mean they do. If I could have a dollar for everyone hour I stressed about feeling behind bc of their confidence, i could have skipped finance altogether and retired And if you had told me then that I would be the one asked to speak at all the reunion panels, well no one would have believed that.  And of course others succeeded in big tech and in industries which barely existed at the time, so who knows. Private equity can be a kinder path if your kid is into finance, so sounds all going swimmingly. But they are not supposed to know now and you certainly haven't failed them. 
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