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Partner. Wachtell. M&A. Love. Mah. Jawb.
I always thought - who in this world would like to spend their time buried in uninteresting bull shit, when there are so many interesting subjects to study?
In my next 2 years, I started getting praises occasionally because if nothing else, I had speed with me, because I was young and fast and without any worries.
In my next 2 years, I started noticing patterns and the repetitive nature of things I was handling. It made me question many things. It made me feel I hit the wall. I did a lot of soul searching. Tried thinking alternate ways of living to get out of the rut. I started feeling irritable. I wanted to find my place in the pecking order. I started throwing my weight around to find the anchor that sets in.
In my next 2 years, started realizing that unknowingly, for all these years, I had acquired a formidable vastness of practical and industrial knowledge, which my clients started finding useful. Their reactions made it clear to me that now I possess something useful that can make a real world difference.
Now that I know things, know people, know business, know the market - it feels like a game. That's when things get exciting. I absolutely enjoy playing work like a chess-board. In my own way, I am influencing industry practices.
Its mostly financial sustenance, or importance and name( civil services, politics)
Difficult to state since different things work for different people. But at least in the initial months, it’s much more difficult because you are absolutely new and you have no idea what’s going on. You may make the effort to pick up on things, but unless your seniors are briefing you and giving you proper background to matters you’re on, you’ll probably be lost. Sometimes, even after being told, you’ll need information to be repeated to you because you are not used to working with such matters.
I like to think it’s like escape velocity- there’s a lot of resistance initially, but once you reach a certain height, the resistance of gravity falls away. You’ll still have to avoid the rocks in space, but if you hang around long enough, you’ll probably even reach for the stars. It will take hard work and sacrifice, but after a while when you start getting it, you’ll notice the nuances in different matters you work on, you’ll notice your ability to grasp things better. And that’s what will make all the difference.
-A1