TLDW, i think i read this in Daily mail earlier this week. The gist was she had to work 5:30 am to 9pm. Or something like that, for the 10 week internship. These kids/snowflakes are happy to play video games 16 hours a day for years on end, but not hard work for 10 weeks that will set them up for life.
26 minutes??????? She knew what she was getting into, so why the 26 minute rant and articles about this? She should have left the first day. No one was forcing her to stay at the internship. Anyone in this industry knows the work is not an 8 hour day, the mental and physical attributes it carries are widely known...... She says: All these hedge fund people are millionaires or billionaires who have made a lot of money already and want to make even more money,' she said. 'So we are helping billionaires who want to become ultra-billionaires. So if you really think about that, how meaningful is that?' Hahahah really? This is just too funny. What garbage she spews
Its not really funny. That is what they are brainwashing the kids with at college these days. Left wing marxist stuff and identity politics.
When I worked for a hedge fund I wanted to axe murder everyone there , balding screaming idiots who were miserable and tried to make everyone else tense and miserable too. I found a guy who was so happy about my work and also a genius on stochastic processes and wanted to join... they had the audacity to offer him an unpaid internship... to go work in the heart of hell (manhattan). If they would have even offered a paltry salary our work would have produced thousands of times value of the investment. As it was, i had to apologize to him and felt ashamed at the shitbags I worked with. Shes right, and according to the ancient philospher Seneca she is doing the right thing. I can imagine you old bastards haven't trimmed your nose hairs in ages looking down at these "marxists" because they dont want to dedicate their lives to some finance douche
I've worked in schools for a number of years mostly the prep school, boarding school, and most recently the university level. It's always an entertaining endeavor to ask students about the future they are after and then to follow up with the question "why?". It's interesting the students from the humanities all seem to have something noble in mind as well as the engineers, nurses, etc. Most of these kids are one percenters especially the boarding school crowd. When I have lunch with the business and finance students the answer is usually more honest and direct - Money. But when followed up with, "why? or what will you do with your money" I'm usually met with blank looks. One honest fellow over a beer at the end of the semester said hookers and blow without limits. A good way to end up drying out in the Arizona desert with a case of Herpes I responded but I'd agree fun on the way there. So anyway I guess we all have to struggle with that question what is the purpose of our wealth and what do we want to do with it. We leave the world with as much as we entered. Indulge our children and spoil their character? Have it end up with that young second or third wife? Or really figure out something important and meaningful to do. Nice things are nice things but have a diminishing return on happiness. The rolex feels good against your wrist and you stare at it a lot the first few weeks after you buy that sucker but it fades. Same with the car the yacht and yada yada yada. And then we up our friends and only compare our wealth to theirs and always want more. I don't think the rush to the bottom with marxism is the answer nor do I think economic equality is something that can be maintained. Spending the last few years working mainly in the philanthropic area it is a little inspiring to see what great wealth passed on wisely can do. I try to think of who the happiest people are that I know and how much their wealth has to do with it? Having money certainly takes away a good deal of stress but makes it's own. I will leave my rambling at the happiest people I know often seem to be the holiest. I don't mean overly religious in a cheesy kind of way but focused on the simple pursuit of truth and beauty while being honest with themselves and others about who they are and what they want.
Internship from hell vs The Horrifically Dystopian World of Software Engineering Interviews https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...ld-of-software-engineering-interviews.354860/ Which is deadlier?
The girl actually made it into GS and then said fuck this. Nothing wrong with redefining your goals and priorities. Some people chase admiration and social status their whole live. I for one am only here to be financially independent one day (and thus independent in general), if a job at a prestigious firm will get me there, so be it, if it's a beautique fund, I'll go there.
Almost the same, like the Buffet said : (~something like that~) ,,The best thing that money provides, is the ability to choose, who do you associate with'' Especially after recent events, where people went bunkers. And even more so, when one is introvert. Like the singer Enya, somewhere, in Scotland, in an old castle. (Those do not cost that much) I liked the insight into the system of GS choosing/filtering process, since IQ tests are banned. Might be plenty of pre-designed questions, during those hundreds of coffee meetings that she had. An invisible way to over-come the ban. Each person drops a question, then, after she/candidate leaves, writes down the time that took to answer & if the answer was right at all. The nick names like ,,stool'' and pushing around, lack of sleep, all of it - testing EI. Navy Seals - GS rendition.