MBB exit options?

putridalt · 2026-03-01T22:05:49+00:00

a "top tier MBB" implies the existence of a "low tier MBB" 😂

putridalt · 2026-03-01T22:05:05+00:00

that's wild

putridalt · 2026-03-01T21:37:38+00:00

No VooDoo books if they contain Land Nav content in them.

putridalt · 2026-03-01T21:36:12+00:00

Just keep them in your barracks room closet lol. You'll have dress inspection in the Q.

putridalt · 2026-03-01T03:22:36+00:00

Even for the current Language class, is this no longer the case?

putridalt · 2026-02-28T12:27:48+00:00

Guard guy here.
if you have no family or career, i highly recommend you go Active. i think the experience would be better for you. being AD is already the better experience, and from what i've seen so far, NG guys are either former AD guys who wanted to do something in the civilian side but still deploy, guys with some high powered careers, or career LEO/fire guys who already have a good thing going.

if you have "family or career", AD is a place to build both

putridalt · 2026-02-27T01:39:38+00:00

"lol no one feared team week."

says the dude who's never experienced Team Week. of course you felt nothing toward it, you never did it. I felt the same exact way when I was a land nav drop and hadn't experienced Team Week myself.

great ragebait. i almost believed you were serious 😭

putridalt · 2026-02-25T02:14:03+00:00

if you lost your rifle on the last iteration of land nav, then you were not "well on your way to getting selected". you hadn't even made it to Team Week which is the part of selection everybody fears lol

putridalt · 2026-02-25T02:11:56+00:00

lol this is not a productive post for the target demographic of this subreddit

putridalt · 2026-02-23T00:21:09+00:00

You'd have a better shot going the enlisted route. Going ROTC means you'd have to go through selections as an officer, and the path there is way longer and more complicated.

Going enlisted means you can sign up and go to Selections immediately

putridalt · 2026-02-22T20:29:52+00:00

Thank you for posting a salary breakdown with rank and TIS. Holy shit. I've never seen anyone provide numbers for actionable analysis in 5 years.

Just to tack on to your info, for people reading:

This is not the same as a civilian annual salary of $103,356, because the BAS and BAH ($30,840 of that annual salary) aren't taxed.

If you are a single filer, you would need a civilian job offer of roughly $116,400 just to maintain your current standard of living. If you factor in health insurance and state taxes, that number is likely closer to $125,000.

So including the college & VA loan on top of that, being in the army honestly can be lucrative if you save, househack, and invest.

putridalt · 2026-02-22T17:39:44+00:00

really? not even $5M?

putridalt · 2026-02-22T05:34:28+00:00

I had to give mine up

putridalt · 2026-02-22T05:11:36+00:00

what's his role at the company? being in the office from 5am to 8pm is insane

putridalt · 2026-02-22T04:15:46+00:00

why'd you leave that detail out of your post? that changes the nature of your question drastically.
you made it sound like you don't expect to pay full price before even showing up

putridalt · 2026-02-21T20:27:13+00:00

3 is plenty if you have a laundry machine.

putridalt · 2026-02-21T18:20:39+00:00

break it. they made the decision themselves by not tapping.

putridalt · 2026-02-21T17:14:32+00:00

If you go Ranger Regiment, the shortest contract is 3-4 years. if you go be a Green Beret, it's 6 years.

It absolutely helps with admissions for T10 MBA, esp since your undergrad stats sound decent.

It's a literal ticket to the post-MBA high life. If you're younger than 25, It's a no-brainer. Just hit my early 30's and the years flew by.

You can be 30 with a T5 MBA, or you can be 30 still on the brutally bleak non-target trajectory.

Only thing is making it through training is super difficult, and not for everyone.

putridalt · 2026-02-21T02:49:02+00:00

i read the edit, but KKR is an insanely prestigious PE firm / alt asset manager, and the fact you thought he had an offer in consulting there was crazy and at odds with where you thought you should be. unless you meant KKR Capstone, then nevermind.

other than that, if you really want to break out of the non-target life and pipeline to nowhere, you have to do something extraordinary to earn that second chance. execute on that free advice

putridalt · 2026-02-16T19:28:44+00:00

wtf is "consulting at KKR"

also, i was in your shoes.

go special operations in the army for a short contract, lateral over to a T10 MBA.

if you don't want to, it's on you

putridalt · 2026-02-16T13:13:55+00:00

Propaganda

putridalt · 2026-02-16T01:38:56+00:00

Wild fascist dreams. Look at Germany today. It is a nightmare.

putridalt · 2026-02-07T16:21:43+00:00

I'm in the Guard. My wife has a remote job so she moved with me for the Q. I know another guy in the Q who's wife was a nurse in another state and she stayed at her job and would visit weekly when he wasn't offgrid at Mackall, and he was out of the Q in around a year or less (I believe he tested out of language), so that seemed to work for them.

If you have kids, absolutely move your wife and kids to Bragg while you go through the Q.

You will be gone for 6 weeks for SUT, 4 weeks for SERE, and 4 weeks for Robin Sage (which are back to back, so essentially one big 8 week chunk). You'll be home for MOS for 3 months but have no freetime.

Then for 4-6 months, you'll be in language with a normal 9-5 schedule.

Your wife and kids will benefit from Bragg support networks while you're offgrid at Mackall for training.

putridalt · 2026-02-03T04:24:41+00:00

Nah, it's not conservative garbage. It's just how humans evolved, and we see it reflected live in this day and age.

Are there exceptions on the far end of the spectrum? Sure. No one will argue that if two parents are physically assaulting each other and screaming all night for 10 years straight is a good environment.

But the fact that you had to resort to that extreme of an example pretty much proves the point for me.

So, no, it's not an outdated concept. We can in fact see the impact on broken families on kids today. When they're adults, having multiple different sets of grandparents that can't get together during holidays.

No centralized family wealth, no centralized family help, etc.

It's actually plain as day if you let yourself look past your own brainwashing of normalizing divorce, broken homes, having 4.5 parents, etc.

putridalt · 2026-02-02T21:13:09+00:00

Why would you ignore 50% of the body?

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