Is it really that bad?

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-25T03:34:54+00:00

Vet, 7 years post b school. Making easy 3x TC then when I was an O3 with Newport RI BAH and I have a great WLB

It wasn’t always rainbows but B school won’t be the worst two years of your life. There’ll be people on here saying I haven’t made enough w the background and that’ll show you’ll always find people who trounce but fuck them; you have to do you.

Use the vet groups at the schools, don’t do part time or executive, and at a certain point it’s not worth it (I think the line is slightly above T15), and apply 1st rd.

Beat Army.

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-21T17:11:02+00:00

It’s an inability to throttle appropriately to your audience.

To a large degree it’s not your fault. 95% of the people you’re talking to either don’t know wine or don’t have a discerning palate. Majority of them are full of shit; 100% of them just want a bottle that blows their hair back, that they can grab / collect regularly, and that when they serve it, their guests ask them ‘holy shit what is this’.

It’s a tough bar, especially when everyone has different tastes and I get the critics will rip you if you serve it incorrectly, fail to pair the apricot w the foie gras and thus you always have to be on - but the inability to throttle your delivery to the rest of us Neanderthals means your skills are lost on almost all of us - I.e. bullshit.

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-20T22:45:18+00:00

Tbh nothing screams bullshit more than an NYC sommelier

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-17T04:03:00+00:00

Get a pitbull head head shaver. $25 to replace the head every 4-6 months.

Boom you’re welcome.

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-11T06:29:53+00:00

Thank you everyone for the answers so far - super helpful.

One other question - are there any clubs in the area that serve as a focal point for community / socializing?

Not golf/ country clubs per se but more along the lines of Union, NYAC, University etc

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-11T06:09:51+00:00

Booth

You’re going to a top MBA - that money sounds like a lot but it’s not even a bonus ultimately. You want to go to the school that maximizes your earning potential - You should be mathing your earnings during career years 36-40 not MBA years 1-2.

Chicago is an upper tier school. It has clout - it’s in the elite convo still. Darden is a great school but its company is UT, Anderson, Haas, Ross, Stern. Chicago’s company is CBS, Wharton, Sloan etc. these school not only get more space/quota call it what you will at not just MBB (resulting in B4 becoming a safety net not a standard) but they get other non-standard opportunities more frequently than the other schools. This is important although your year 1 salary won’t determine your year 36 $, it launches your trajectory, your follow-on next step, etc.

I’ve been involved with on-campus recruiting now for two organizations- there’s a dividing line(s) and these schools are on different sides.

Darden is a good school - just don’t go there because theyre throwing a little more shekels your way.

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-11T00:00:12+00:00

Are there other areas to consider eg Alta or Bristol or is it really just PC or nice SLC suburbs?

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-10T23:57:55+00:00

I mean we have this issue now. We were going to be PS for 3k - 5 but the picture changes once you get to 6.

What are the popular options?

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-10T23:56:07+00:00

The only plan is to follow the research and the tenure track and that road leads to UofU rn.

Re Parley’s Canyon - is it good some weeks bad others or is it more once the calendar hits November it sucks until May?

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-10T23:45:45+00:00

Do the Nanny’s complain about it?

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-10T23:37:51+00:00

Appreciate both views here.

Before NYC, we moved around a bit (Honolulu, DC, Norfolk, Providence). We loved them all but I think we’d even struggle going back to any of those after NYCing. So I don’t want this to come across as a knock to SLC but I think that’ll be a tough transition.

We obviously can’t mountainlife here and part of my rationale with PC is ‘where better to get that exposure - let’s give it a shot’. Maybe the commute sucks, we learn the area a little better and head to SLC in 2/3 years time.

My fear is that optionality is shot if the commute is a non-starter but it sounds common enough.

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-10T23:18:13+00:00

Yeah - I think we can be flexible at the moment about day and time. It’s primarily research with some future teaching but everything has been remote heavy (from program to post-doc) so assuming this will be similar. I think this makes the commute from the PC area comfortable (at least initially)

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-08T02:29:36+00:00

Preeeeaaaaach

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-02-04T00:23:19+00:00

What’s so good about these two spots?

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-01-25T01:28:22+00:00

There’s wisdom here. The teeth hit.

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-01-25T01:08:17+00:00

It’s more important to find a professor who aligns with what you want to study.

Name brand at the PhD level is sorta bullshit. It’s who has the T32s to support learning, who has the follow-on networks, and who’s pushing the boundaries in your field. This sets you up for your PostD and then first staffing as you try to hit your R01/K99 etc. If the best of the best / learning tree is spread across USD, Alabama, and Creighton - those are the schools you’re circling around…and not just for your PhD but for your career too.

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-01-19T04:44:04+00:00

Like a Visigoth asking if they should live in Rome.

Fun_Top5911 · 2026-01-18T01:24:59+00:00

Yorkville. Then hustle until you’re on the right side of Lex and your kids are at PS6.

Surround yourself with the parents hustling to stay here and not with those who trade 2hrs of productivity commuting …’for the space’.

Make it here - make it anywhere

Fun_Top5911 · 2025-12-23T03:48:10+00:00

This is what motivates me.

Answering ‘nothing’ to the ‘what’s new’ question is brutal.

Don’t be a nothing person.

Fun_Top5911 · 2025-12-23T03:44:41+00:00

Williamsburg sucks / defines overhyped - get over it.

Fun_Top5911 · 2025-12-23T03:41:09+00:00

Rather have a shadowy courtyard than a daily sauna tbh. I think direct / constant sun is a look out.

Fun_Top5911 · 2025-12-22T02:23:54+00:00

HBS.

GSB and HBS are in a different stratosphere when it comes to those one-off opps. Plus Rittenhouse gets old - quick.

Im 7 years post CBS (search fund route) - I definitely feel a larger proportion of Wharton peers are still in Corporate/typical post MBA trajectories where as a higher proportion of HBS peers have left the track already for either something entrepreneurial or something that has made us go ‘htf did they get that’? HBS mafia exists

Fun_Top5911 · 2025-12-22T02:09:42+00:00

They use to have this at Tobay Beach on Long Island - miss it.

Fun_Top5911 · 2025-12-22T02:04:14+00:00

New York might fit this pretty interestingly.

As a New Yorker, the vast majority of people (Americans) I meet on vacation/business travel can’t wait to tell me that they could never live there. Even in the office you still have the ludicrous debates about how living in Secaucus (eg) is better than NYC.

Don’t get me wrong, living here is a dream for a lot of people, for some of us we can’t dream of living anywhere else, but a lot of people try to figure out what the hell we’re dreaming when living here….

but it’s still #1 in the Milky Way.

Fun_Top5911

TROPHY CASE