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MikeStreeter

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Currently landed an internship for junior year summer doing Corporate Banking in NYC. I know living in the city isn't for me but I can handle it. I would rather live in a place where I am able to ski and mountain bike. I have skied 37 days so far this year and cannot live without skiing for more than 30 days a year. Has anyone made a transition to living out west from the city and doing finance? Also what was the change like and are you doing the same job? The only company I can think of based in these states is D.A. Davidson and partial of Goldman Sachs.
 
I'm a relationship manager for an independant Macro research firm and I work out of Sun Valley - I wouldn't put my role in the basket of traditional finance positions, but I talk to guys everyday in IB, Cap markets, PE, HF, the whole array.

I think going straight from an internship / graduation and trying to secure a solid job out west will have you landing at a pretty low tier shop compared to an NYC experience. Low tier in the sense that you'd make a great living, but not nearly the trajectory that a foundation of 2 years at a BB bank in the city would offer.

If you can spend 1 or two years as an analyst for a big name, you'll be set to take any variety of entry / associate level industry jobs out west. Lots of PE, VC, Family Office type stuff out here.

With that said dude, if you really wanna get out here, then do it. I skipped NYC and turned out just fine. Super happy with my decision.
 
Both Denver and SLC would offer jobs you might be looking for, both have a few bank skyscrapers, obviously nowhere near as much as NYC but those would be your best options. Seattle could be an option as well.
 
14387237:Willgum said:
I'm a relationship manager for an independant Macro research firm and I work out of Sun Valley - I wouldn't put my role in the basket of traditional finance positions, but I talk to guys everyday in IB, Cap markets, PE, HF, the whole array.

I think going straight from an internship / graduation and trying to secure a solid job out west will have you landing at a pretty low tier shop compared to an NYC experience. Low tier in the sense that you'd make a great living, but not nearly the trajectory that a foundation of 2 years at a BB bank in the city would offer.

If you can spend 1 or two years as an analyst for a big name, you'll be set to take any variety of entry / associate level industry jobs out west. Lots of PE, VC, Family Office type stuff out here.

With that said dude, if you really wanna get out here, then do it. I skipped NYC and turned out just fine. Super happy with my decision.
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Yeah, I just really in between both getting out west and living in the city. I think it may be best to get good career progression and live in the city for 1-2 year post grad. I just don't want to get trapped in golden handcuffs and the rat race of NYC. Might just have to lap Big Snow AD in the mean time.

How do you find the time to ski while working? Do you mainly ski weekends?
 
14387262:MikeStreeter said:
Yeah, I just really in between both getting out west and living in the city. I think it may be best to get good career progression and live in the city for 1-2 year post grad. I just don't want to get trapped in golden handcuffs and the rat race of NYC. Might just have to lap Big Snow AD in the mean time.

How do you find the time to ski while working? Do you mainly ski weekends?
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The golden handcuffs is a real thing, especially if the city starts to become your culture (pretty easy thing to fall into). But living in NYC is pretty formative, and as long as analysts save their bonuses and don't buy into the consumption culture, I'd say it's a pretty sweet launch pad to jump west.

We have an office in Sun Valley but most of our work is remote, so I basically just ski whenever I have a few hours without meetings. I'm lucky that I live about 2 minutes from the lifts, so being somewhere like Denver would probably mean weekend warrioring.

The alternative is to go fully remote and live in a true ski town, but I'm not familiar with how many firms are still fully remote like that. Front office roles, not so much. Back office, support roles? Definitely more remote friendly.
 
Just work somewhere like NYC to get decent experience in finance (markets, investing, banking, etc.). Then when you have some connections and experience apply for those jobs out west and make the move.

Take a big ski trip every season (you could get finance bros to lend you

a jet) and when you have the experience move out west. Mountains won't

move.

As a guy who has ski bummed most of his 20s out west, I don't regret it but I don't own house at 33 and that kind of blows. Everywhere I try to live I can't afford cause rich fuckers want a 5th and 6th home.

The life investment of working a few years in (fancy place name here) will help your career and will pay off in ridiculous dividends of fun later in life.

Ridiculous dividends of fun.

Just don't have kids. Thats when fun dies.
 
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There’s like 4 banks in all of Montana.

Most people here keep their money under a mattress instead of putting it in a bank.

I’d definitely suggest maybe peeping a larger city where you can still be close to outdoor recreation, as said above SLC or Seattle would be great for you if a good job/life balance is what you seek.
 
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