Friday, April 09, 2004
Why am I here? It's a question I kept asking myself repeatedly this week as I missed the Wharton NYC gathering, and much else besides during this week. As a second-year analyst at an investment bank, life is supposed to get better. At least that's what the lore is. Alas, for me, it has taken a distinct turn for the worse. It must be Murphy's Law - anything that can go wrong will do so. And so today, on the Good Friday, one of the 2 days of the year when the Merrill Lynch copy center is not open, the client had all of a sudden decided that they need 30 color copies of 40-page presentation - in 2 hours. After a collective "hmmm", my associate and I started frantically evaluating alternatives, finally settling in subjugating the graphics department and their fast(er) color printer to our needs. It was a fitting start to a thoroughly difficult day. During days like this, Huntsman Hall looms larger then ever in my future and West Philly seems much more welcoming then it usually is.
Such is the nature of the beast. That's why, I frequently think to myself, I need to work in a process based position - general management or marketing for example. I have to admit, I do sometimes get pangs of envy when my fellow analysts who decided to take the PE route disclose their future salaries, but once I mentally adjust those for the general misery of the experience, management is not all that bad. I am really hopeful that by the time I graduate, in 2006, Wharton will have thrown off its "finance" shadow completely and management jobs will be just as plentiful as the investment banking offers.
If anyone reading this has a perspective on what's it like to try and get into a general management/marketing program out of Wharton, please leave a reply or email me at db509@stern.nyu.edu.
Such is the nature of the beast. That's why, I frequently think to myself, I need to work in a process based position - general management or marketing for example. I have to admit, I do sometimes get pangs of envy when my fellow analysts who decided to take the PE route disclose their future salaries, but once I mentally adjust those for the general misery of the experience, management is not all that bad. I am really hopeful that by the time I graduate, in 2006, Wharton will have thrown off its "finance" shadow completely and management jobs will be just as plentiful as the investment banking offers.
If anyone reading this has a perspective on what's it like to try and get into a general management/marketing program out of Wharton, please leave a reply or email me at db509@stern.nyu.edu.
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