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Degree : information technology
Career interests : software developer/ owning telecom! Company
Salary: 20K

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Original post by Jesus_cock_lover
Degree : information technology
Career interests : software developer/ owning telecom! Company
Salary: 20K

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How the heck did you get away with that username?

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Original post by KatieBlogger
You won't get funded for a psychology degree and it would be useless anyway since you couldn't even be a counsellor (never mind psychiatrist) with that degree alone.
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I doubt he wants to be a Psychiatrist... Psychiatry and Psychology are very different fields (you're right though; he certainly couldn't be a Psychiatrist without a Medical degree)
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Why do so many people want to go into Investment Banking??
Original post by chopinfan
Why do so many people want to go into Investment Banking??


money team
Original post by chopinfan
Why do so many people want to go into Investment Banking??


- Learning curve
- Solid formal and on-the-job training
- Interesting and challenging work environment
- Fast paced, varied work
- Working on deals that will shape the business landscape alongside the executives of large scale companies
- Solid network of smart, high potential co-workers
- The upward trajectory is very fast (if you stay)
- Tonnes of responsibility
- Build a core set of both hard (modelling, analysis etc) and soft (communication, work ethic etc) skills
- Exit opportunities to other jobs
- Pay
- Preftige
- etc..
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*Reasons may be given in ascending order of importance.
Original post by chopinfan
Why do so many people want to go into Investment Banking??


Money driven robot-slaves to the system.
Original post by KatieBlogger
Money driven robot-slaves to the system.


Have you met any bankers or are you just regurgitating what you hear in the media?

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Original post by Princepieman
Have you met any bankers or are you just regurgitating what you hear in the media?

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Why do you assume I listen to any of the drivel spouted by the mainstream media?
Original post by KatieBlogger
Why do you assume I listen to any of the drivel spouted by the mainstream media?


Because then you'd realise most bankers are pretty normal people, not 'robots' as you so aptly put it.

Are you one of those news hipsters who's convinced all mainstream media is conspiracy?

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Original post by Princepieman
Because then you'd realise most bankers are pretty normal people, not 'robots' as you so aptly put it.

Are you one of those news hipsters who's convinced all mainstream media is conspiracy?

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With their way-above-average salary and the lifestyle that it entitles, I wouldn't consider them normal in relation to the rest of the population. Note that I am not using the term normality with moral connotations.
Degree: Biochemistry
Jobs/Careers of Interest: Any job where introversion is acceptable.
Graduate Salary Expected: 21-22k. 40k in 10 years. :u:
Original post by KatieBlogger
Money driven robot-slaves to the system.


For 15 years. Then they're out of the system. And everybody else is still slaving a 9-5 for another 30.
Jeez why does every thread on TSR end up being about banking
Degree:
Civil Engineering

Jobs/Careers of Interest:
Pavement Engineering (only because my YINI is here so it's a free pass)

Graduate Salary Expected:
30k (judging that the 26k offered by AECOM right now probably increases)
Degree: education studies
Job: primary school teacher
Expected salary: 21k
Degree: Information Management for Business (Computing and Management) Jobs/Careers of Interest: Tech Division of an IB, Blue Chip company as a Tech Analyst
Graduate Salary Expected: 30-35K
Original post by Daniel9998
Jeez why does every thread on TSR end up being about banking


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6t47RI4bns
Original post by Juichiro
With their way-above-average salary and the lifestyle that it entitles, I wouldn't consider them normal in relation to the rest of the population. Note that I am not using the term normality with moral connotations.


They actually work very hard for their money. The lifestyle is not really glamorous or lazy like a lot of people think. I wouldn't even say they are overpaid.

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