When I started my career several years ago, I thought professional success is 90% hard work and 10% luck. As I progressed, I had an opportunity to work with amazing leaders and I assumed that such leaders are the norm and my conviction in the recipe for success further strengthened. Over the last 3-4 years my perspective has flipped. I find that (especially as I reach middle management), long term career success is heavily determined by a combination of factors which may be very hard to directly influence with hard work. E.g., choice of career, manager, culture, economy etc. Long timers - how much of what I am saying is true? Or am I avoiding taking responsibilities for my failures?
It’s not as simple as luck vs. hard work. There’s so many factors. But it’s all opportunities. Either ones you’re given or ones you create. And there’s a lot of ways to get opportunities that aren’t entirely based on luck and isn’t the result of hard work, it’s based on knowledge and intelligence. But one thing is true, the winner of the rat race is the one who has the opportunities to give. Figure out how to be that person.
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Why don't you work in HFT/Fund ?
If you want to be a VP, you got to act like one
Or join a bank like jpmc where every third person is a vp
You must be well connected, brother