17-02-2005 03:47									#31
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Will, will, will, will, will

	17-02-2005 05:02									#32
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Investment banking is a shot load of fun once you earn your stripes. Long lunches, nice wine, invites to all sorts of functions (including private boxes at the cricket, rugby, football etc) big bucks and if you play your cards right, enough time to do the things you want.

Having worked in the field, my advice is work hard, then party hard. The effort will be worth it.

	17-02-2005 05:24									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison 60 hours is one hell of a week Will. You're young, and although this would see you financially OK, you'll soon find your youth has slipped between your fingers in your corporate slavery. Be warned...

Very true, which is why I'm not sure it's worth the time to get the capital up. However an internship sounds like an idea to see what it's like.

quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison And do tell, what the hell are you doing all that time? It is a relatively quiet year, you should have loads of time...

Well, I spend most of my time working for AIESEC, a charity that aims to promote cultural understanding by arranging for people to work in other countries, to experience culture first hand. I'm currently organising a project to send 15 politics students to Romania to teach civic education, citizenship and EU politics to high school students around the country, as part of a project to get young people in Romania interested in democracy. I've also started a management consultancy program, that developed people's knowledge of business and it's working, and will send 5 people each year to a developing nation to work with businesses, help them export to developed countries and help them run their businesses better. This is all without considering the jazz band I play in, Oxford Entrepreneurs who I'm hoping to do a project with, the chocolate society I'm in the process of starting, and, ohh, the 30+ hours a week I need to spend doing university work. Plus I have a social life, and a girlfriend I don't get to spend nearly as much time as I want with.

Let no-one claim I'm not making the most of my time here

	17-02-2005 05:25									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Will, will you have time to study, or will it be a full time internship?

It's full time, but it's during the Easter holidays, and only for two weeks. I'll still have time to do my holiday work even.

	17-02-2005 10:34									#35
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That is short, I'd have thought it would have made more sense to do one over the summer for a bit longer...

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quote: Originally posted by atomant Investment banking is a shot load of fun once you earn your stripes. Long lunches, nice wine, invites to all sorts of functions (including private boxes at the cricket, rugby, football etc) big bucks and if you play your cards right, enough time to do the things you want. Having worked in the field, my advice is work hard, then party hard. The effort will be worth it.

PH - We aren't leeches; in fact, IB's add a lot to the well being of society. You're very quick to judge and get angry.

	17-02-2005 15:45									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Drogue It's full time, but it's during the Easter holidays, and only for two weeks. I'll still have time to do my holiday work even.

Good experience, looks good on the resume, not an overkill time-destroyer, and a less-than-shabby money. What's not to like

	17-02-2005 16:13									#38
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Being a galley slave to teh evil illuminati capitalists?

	17-02-2005 16:30									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Saras Being a galley slave to teh evil illuminati capitalists?

AFAIK, he doesn't have a problem with capitalists.

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Well done Drogue - now lend me £20 so I can buy Kotor II.

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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison That is short, I'd have thought it would have made more sense to do one over the summer for a bit longer...

Yes, but they're only for second years. This is about the only first year internship I know of. Besides, most of my summers are booked from now until I graduate

	17-02-2005 20:59									#42
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You're mad, you should chill out a bit more...planning that many summers ahead is insane...

	17-02-2005 21:58									#43
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quote: Originally posted by Drogue Besides, most of my summers are booked from now until I graduate

oh, the spontaneity of youth...

	17-02-2005 22:54									#44
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You never get any decent opportunities if you don't enter before the deadlines. I decided I want to run a project that gives me the opportunity to travel to a developing nation my second year summer. Not really sure where, but it's quite a project.

And you only have two summers at uni, it's not that far ahead.

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quote: Originally posted by Spiffor AFAIK, he doesn't have a problem with capitalists.

Naw, just get a government job then you get to screw the capitalists back through higher taxes.

	17-02-2005 23:03									#46
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Um, I suggest you track a few records of former interns and what they are doing now...

...it's not a GUARANTEED route to success, although it works for some people.

Just don't go mental before you're even in, eh?

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Hehe, I'm not. I know a lot of people that went on this, it's the main reason I applied - a recommendation. If I want to work in finance, whether for charity, entrepreneurship, government or business, a brief insight into the workings of investment banks will be very useful.

Of course it doesn't guarentee success, that's what my degree, extra-curriculars, contacts and blagging skills in interviews are for

	18-02-2005 00:27									#48
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GS is reputed as the most driven IB in the world. Who knows, maybe the internship will awaken your inner greedy workaholic

	18-02-2005 00:29									#49
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Drogue is so lucky he didn't make a thread by this title at certain other web sites. He'd have been eatten alive by half a dozen hilarious copy cat threads.