When You Reach the Point of Putting Yourself in Places You “Don’t Belong,” Your Entire Life Changes
Far too often in life, we are told some version of “sorry, you don’t belong.” It pisses me off. It forces too many good people to give up instead of keep trying. Often these people who tell us we don’t belong are afraid. Or they’re pissed off that we want to join their world.They’re hoarders. They want to keep all the opportunities for themselves. This is how a class system is constructed. It’s also why elitism thrives and the economy has run like a permission economy for decades. Strange things happen in life when you go where you don’t belong.The secret world I’m going to tell you about is investment banking.When I walked away from my startup at 26, I felt lost. So I did what many lost people do and followed the money.Money was how I could gain significance once again.
Several of my close friends convinced me investment banking was the best way to find the drug of money.So I got a low-level job in consumer banking to start with.Five years in, I reached a level where I could start to migrate over to the more glorious world of investment banking. I got to know one investment banker through a friend. He drove a bright yellow Ferrari that cost $650k.Everywhere he went in that car you could hear him. As I got to know his story, I learned he did huge amounts of coke, cheated on his wife with high-class hookers, and wore Armani suits.Despite the downsides I still wanted to be an investment banker. I rationalized my decision by swearing I’d stay away from the fast lane. So, I began doing interviews at investment banks.
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