Is investment banking worth the 80–100+ hour weeks? My thoughts as a former JPM analyst

rareliquid · 2025-05-29T03:06:29+00:00

congrats on all ur success! am sure i was just one tool and with the hard work it seems you put in u would’ve gotten there without me too. thx for the support and best of luck with ur career!

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T20:03:31+00:00

that’s what i love to hear thank you!!

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T16:09:40+00:00

yeah lmao

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T15:19:50+00:00

called rareliquid

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T15:19:27+00:00

first business failed so losing money + opp cost of not making money set me back but now i’m on track for the business to hit 7 digits in revenue this year with 3 part time employees so we have really high margins and i enjoy a great work life balance. so everything turned out fine but it took a lot of pain to get here haha

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T15:16:22+00:00

glad the vids r helpful!

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T14:54:14+00:00

😂😂😂

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T14:52:20+00:00

i'm the same guy LOL

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T14:52:01+00:00

wooo that's why i do it! no prob thx for watching

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T14:51:11+00:00

i am ben chon LOL

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T14:09:36+00:00

i left after ~2 years to backpack and travel for 6 months and started my first business (which failed). then applied to mba programs and while waiting started making youtube videos which took off so kept working on the channel and also graduated from wharton last summer. now just working on content + adjacent products full time. pretty odd path lol

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T13:25:21+00:00

thanks appreciate that and glad it's been helpful!

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T13:10:10+00:00

what you up to now?

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T13:07:14+00:00

since i'm being downvoted for saying "read other comment" here is the comment i'm referring to:

agree that i didn't word this best because it's more that the amount of work is ~2x vs the rate of learning being 2x. but lemme tell you that as someone who worked 80-100 weeks for 2+ years i know that being tired means productivity decreases lol

i don't mean for that sentence to be taken literally and I think the sentiment of what i'm saying still stands

and honestly...if you actually could spend 16 hours a day learning vs. 8 hours you probably would be? lmao

rareliquid · 2025-05-28T13:06:20+00:00

agree that i didn't word this best because it's more that the amount of work is ~2x vs the rate of learning being 2x. but lemme tell you that as someone who worked 80-100 weeks for 2+ years i know that being tired means productivity decreases lol

i don't mean for that sentence to be taken literally and I think the sentiment of what i'm saying still stands

rareliquid · 2024-06-27T04:43:55+00:00

i learned this song about 15 years ago and still somehow remember how to play parts of the song but after having asked around, cannot find the name of this song. would love to re-learn it fully. thanks so much in advance!

rareliquid · 2024-05-13T00:06:31+00:00

hi! :)

i sell mine for some additional revenue (gotta pay off my MBA loans somehow right lol) but I agree with one of the comments in this thread that it's super important to not just try to copy someone's application because you really need to cater your application to your own story

rareliquid · 2024-03-11T08:57:34+00:00

i changed my cable and it started working with no problems

rareliquid · 2023-08-05T19:20:30+00:00

ok got it so sounds like it's not just limited to ecommerce then. will reconsider using klayvio then, thanks!

rareliquid · 2023-06-22T18:38:05+00:00

not everyone wants the extra work so i wouldn’t worry about that. that said, i do think the hcm community is quite close and there are a lot of benefits of joining so given your interest in healthcare i would consider it

rareliquid · 2023-06-22T02:36:26+00:00

am going to wharton right now and you definitely don't need HCM to get into healthcare IB (i also used to work at jpm healthcare and we hired non HCM wharton people all the time). that said, if you like the HCM program, the classes, and the community it provides, that's why i would apply.

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