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Originally Posted by activeStick
I meet many of the new hires every year when we hold a welcome session and every year during cocktails I'm told by some that their goal is to become a partner in our firm in 5 years. Great to have big goals, but let's be realistic!
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This really cuts both ways. You're probably getting a lot of people with delusional expectations, because those are the only people entering certain types of employment.
When people actually break down the numbers for many professions like lawyer, accountant, etc.. they are so overwhelmingly bad, only a delusional person would ever pursue those careers. $80-100k/year to work 70ish hours a week and you're expected to do that for 5-10 years before seeing any kind of significant pay raise, and even then the partners in many of the firms are only making $140-180k.
You'd have to have a pretty big ego to look into that abyss and see yourself getting ahead.