High salary, high expectations, hightail it out of there
Lately, we’re ditching the grind and our so-called dream jobs along with it. The hidden tolls of a coveted Wall Street career.
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Show Notes
Pop culture loves to fetishize the world of high finance, but are the perks and the profile really worth the pain? Our guest, Carrie Sun, author of the new memoir Private Equity, describes her disillusioning journey working at a billion-dollar Wall Street hedge fund.
Also, Vass and Katrina talk about what happens when your job doesn’t love you back.
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