Which Big 4 did you turn down and why?

Dude, wait until you hit the real world.

I had a similar life in uni. Committee appointments, managing ~75k for various people, sport, running a bar, that kinda thing. Nevermind the study. M days were pretty rammed. But doing something i loved, enjoyed and wated to work on until 2am.

When your AD tosses you a list of companies to find comparables at 6pm and you know you're only doing it because it's needed to fill X pages of a pitch and will have little impact on the deal outcome...it's very different. Or checking debtors, payrolls, referencing stuff and checking sums.

60 hours of work delegated to you, and 80 hours of 'self driven work' are SO different. I imagine that's why people are willing to work their balls off in their own business and prefer it to an easier (yet deathly dull and zombie like existenece) some '9-5's' provide.

On another note, comparing accts/tax/cf to trading is pretty dumb. The people in both camps are very unlikely to ever want to find themselves in another of the camps after a few years. Traders wouldn't want to do CF, i image auditors would hate trading and tax might just get that kick out of evading gordon that audit nor trading could provide.

This place seems like kindergarden. :-)

All this talk of 60 hour weeks - wake up and smell the coffee - do a 36 hour week - get paid a lot less but have an extra DAY of free time to enjoy at home etc!

LBC:

CLS > S-Class

LOL, not really.

Errm, yes?

Only the thing is, it never quite works out that way. You still have to do the 36 hours spread over 5 days, and you still have to commute to work, you still have get to bed early to get to work on time, you still have to stick around during lunch etc. The chances are that if you are taking home little than you are also living further away from work and probably depending on public transport to get there, which will eat away at your "free" time.

This is a question someone from GS asked me (not an interview question, lol):

Theres two people who work at GS. One wears raggy type clothes that if you saw him on the street you wouldnt even think that he works at GS. He has been living with his parents in East London for around 20 years and commutes home using the tube. He doesnt drive a car.

The other one wears flash clothes, really nice ties and comes to work in an expensive suit. He drives a BMW 5 series and has a house in Kensington.

Who is a Sales person and who is the MD?

Whys that? Barcelona is just like any other place on the planet, its different, but that doesn't make it better than anywhere else, unless you're comparing on the basis of how much it costs to get there, and how much you'd need to earn to go there regularly, in which case, of course, Barcelona is better

Like I said, you need to stop comparing what you wanna do and what others do in terms of which is better, because not everybody sees things the same as you - "success" as you put it, is subjective.

I really like my job, but theres other things which I like more, and the difference between the two is definitely huge.

I never knew they measured the heart-rates of every single person in every single car to determine that your heart-beats 5bpm less in an S-class than any other car? That really is an amazing stat ^o)

I like the way you change the facts to suit your arguments - have you ever been to Barcelona? I think I've been about 6 times now, I certainly prefer the woman that walk around the streets of Norwich to those that walk around the streets of Barcelona, but I guess taste in woman is yet another subjective argument which we'll no doubt disagree over.

I think most people drive a car to work LBC, certainly the car park at the local PWC office is always full - so I don't imagine that many of them are taking a bus?

All that aside, Mercs are made of tin and driven by grandads, so I'd rather get the bus to work, actually.

The thing is its all nice and well for saying that IB is a better job than accountancy its just some people are being so harsh than it. When your mate gets into a uni that isn't as good as yours you don't go "Lol your ****". And bankers probably wouldn't like some self employed business man whose earnings millions going wow your job is a pile of monkey spunk. I cant wait for some of the IB addicts to not get jobs at the end of uni and have to go to the Big 4. Although ill probably be one of them.

SOME bankers, some footballers earn 100k a week, 99% earn less than 1% of that.