Fucking quit today

Sounds great and all, but how do you plan on providing for your family?

based

Congrats on MS!

Chase your dreams man. Seems like the bankers in here forgot they had any before entering the industry

Props to you man

Do something exciting with your lifep

Well done, it’s called courage.

I rage quit one job, but gave them notice to increase my salary by a certain amount by a certain date or I quit. I quit. 

Good for you for the courage and/or wisdom to quit
doing something you hated. You mentioned a doing a 2-year masters proram. What's next for you?

let me guess, you're a spoiled kid and money is not an issue for you

Best of luck dude

I think one thing people tend towards in this industry is the extreme all in grind or bust...it's a false distinction between 80-90hr weeks under toxic srs making a lot of money vs. 40hrs of kumbaya making no money

Plenty of roles that are 50-55hrs per week where you still make good money and work with generally nice people. So don't necessarily quit completely on finance just because you dislike IB and maybe PE. That said, lot of cool things you can do outside of finance too. keep an open mind

He's right. Banking is a dying industry

I'm just gonna say 70s jokes are way funnier 

Typical quitter who wants to instigate everyone else to quit as well. Reminds me of that older post where OP slapped his 'boss' and actually he was referring to himself

Financeabc is the biggest loser on this forum

Enjoy the euphoria of quitting without a backup. Before the wave of remorse drowns you.

Incredibly soft post and bad guidance. Did you not do your research on the industry before starting? The culture/firm politics/etc. really shouldn’t be a shock to anyone who has done some networking and looked at WSO. You just have to play the game, simple as that. Seems like you just couldn’t cut it at your job. It’s incredibly ill advised to quit before having another job lined up in this market, unless you don’t actually need to work. Sidebar, if you have enough money to not need to work, why tf would you go into finance unless you were actually passionate about it? Just ask others who have rage quit. Most people I’ve seen that have quit without having something lined up are still out of a job. You should have continued working while looking. Finance vs many other careers is a trade off of time vs money, unless you are smart enough to achieve a high paying and low hours job. No worries if you just would rather have time vs money, but no need to blame it on how the industry works

Unfortunately, management flaws and office politics is what drives the most hardworking people away from banking. I have seen this time and again. Banking is losing its appeal because of this, as we struggle to hire the best people now.

Otherwise, it is a pretty good job.

EDIT: My first reaction was "This doesn’t make sense. Never quit unless you have your next job lined up."

But in hindsight, only you know your situation. I didn't walk in your shoes. It must have been a bad situation in your last role.

I hope you find something you really like next. My initial visceral reaction was that I've only rage-quit / emotional-quit one job, and I deeply regret that. 

So when I hear of emotions being mixed into decision making - especially around jobs - I get concerned.  

I find without a platform it's much more difficult to function in finance, and moving to a new platform is easier when you are employed somewhere.

It's a frustrating truth. 

People are such haters. Who cares if you quit? you WANTED to quit so you did and now you’re happy and carefree I am SO happy for you. People always act like oh this person couldn’t handle it… who gives AF. If someone is trolling or offended by this comment it’s because they’re miserable themselves and wished they had the courage to do this 🤣. I’m sure in a couple years I’ll be in the same place as you haha life is to enjoy and at a certain point you have to actually enjoy

Great. The vast majority of those In the industry do the same eventually.

posts like these remind me of cod rage quits back in 2010

Nice mate

It just seems like IB isn't for you but you don't want to admit it. Instead you are rationalizing your lack of success by shifting the blame to toxic culture.