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And you're okay with working 100+ hour weeks?
As a finance major and friends with many investment bankers, I'm perplexed why anyone with an engineering degree would want to leave engineering to be an investment banker. Engineers can make just as much money as your average banker but with better work/life balance while also having known that they were really adding value to the world. Tech startups in Silicon Valley are paying engineers enormous amounts of money along with exceptional benefits to attract and retain engineers. My best friend has an electrical engineering degree and worked for Microsoft then became a banker and I think he regrets this decision every day when he's coming home at midnight and working Saturdays and Sundays, always on call, and feeling like he's not really working on anything that challenging.
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