Recently, I've started interviewing with investment banks, and in doing so, I think I've come to feel the weight of the infamous words of Mother Night: You are who you pretend to be. Preparing answers for questions like "Why do you want to be an investment banker?" is starting to actually make me want to be a banker. Well, kind of. I feel like my answers make sense, and that I agree with them, and that I really can relate to them. Which seems kind of silly to me, since I come up with these answers by reading blogs which tell you how to answer these kinds of questions. So it seems like it's completely external - I wasn't even the one to come up with these reasons! But I guess I've slowly been internalizing these lines as I prepare. After all, I have to believe myself first, if anyone else is going to believe me, right?
And, well, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm not sure I like what's happening. I feel like I'm getting tricked or something.
Although... one aspect of banking has unexpectedly turned me off. The fact that my interviewers were so young.. and wearing suits... It's weird - in my head, I've always liked the idea of being an important person in a suit. But do I really want to wear a suit to work everyday? I like how this is what my concern is. And by "like" here, I really mean "can't believe/wth is wrong with me?" I am such a weirdo.
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