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Downturn halts students en route to Wall Street
Published: Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
When James An ’08 began spring break, everything was going according to plan. He was almost finished with his senior thesis and already had a job lined up for next year: a position as a first-year analyst in the fixed ...(back to the article)
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@'09, thank you for demonstrating 09's point so effectively.
I love, as you put @'09, that the jobs and corporations which supposedly "provide value" to the world are the same ones that just played the whole country's economy like a poker hand and came up short short. I'd really enjoy seeing the way the other 95% of America feels about 22 year olds who were a step a from making six figures right out of college, but now might have to spend another couple months doing interviews finding a different place where they can make six figures right out of college-- because it just so happens that that first place imploded on itself after after snowballing the country into a recession. I'm sure the men and women just laid off with foreclosed homes and actual, you know, children to feed would be way sympathetic to those "challenges" faced by Mr. no longer future parter of Bear Sterns.
As for me, I'll be working one of those "junk jobs" that "provides no value" and "requires a subsidy from the class of 69 or something" (God forbid, a SUBSIDY! Could their be a more damning thing in the eyes of econ major on the finance track?) And I'm not frustrated about it at all. Quite content actually.
But I would like the University to do one thing. Drop the "In the Nation's Service..." motto already. Before it just felt like bullshit, now it's starting to make me feel dirty.
Hey buddy it sounds like you got stuck with some junk job that requires a university subsidy from class of 69 or whatever. Just because your intended career path provides no value doesn't mean you need to release your frustrations on others who may be facing challenges.
Individually, I have nothing but sympathy, but collectively? Suck it, tools!
RE: Student
"...yet another example of the way Princeton funnels people into two careers: finance and consulting."
I would take the flip side of that coin and say that high school students interested in a career in finance are likely to choose a strong finance-oriented school like Princeton from the outset. That was my thinking as a graduating high-school senior, although after a brief stint at a bank, I chose a different path.
"I took it as an opportunity to explore other industries"...and he chooses consulting. James is a great guy, but I think this is yet another example of the way Princeton funnels people into two careers: finance and consulting.