I’m soliciting advice from Wall Street businessmen on how to maximize earnings, and they’re telling me I shouldn’t worry about money and should just follow my passion in life.
I expect they see a lot of people who are interested in maximising earnings in order to become rich. They infer that this is because the person believes that will make them happy, and they are trying to steer them away from that error by recommending following one’s passion (a reasonable heuristic for personal happiness).
I work on Wall Street and have a strong instinctive negative reaction to your question. You sound crass. People who want to get into finance have to pretend to be in it for reasons other than the money.
If you actually want advice I will overcome that visceral reaction and try to help. Could you tell me a little about yourself? Age/Sex/Education/Work Experience/Interests/Computer Skills etc,
You asked them what to do to have an impact in the world? If they don’t share your values, their all-things considered advice isn’t automatically valid.
No, just maximizing earnings. It’s hard to get people to answer specific questions like that, they prefer to answer the questions which they want you to ask them.
I’m soliciting advice from Wall Street businessmen on how to maximize earnings, and they’re telling me I shouldn’t worry about money and should just follow my passion in life.
I don’t know who to believe anymore.
I expect they see a lot of people who are interested in maximising earnings in order to become rich. They infer that this is because the person believes that will make them happy, and they are trying to steer them away from that error by recommending following one’s passion (a reasonable heuristic for personal happiness).
I work on Wall Street and have a strong instinctive negative reaction to your question. You sound crass. People who want to get into finance have to pretend to be in it for reasons other than the money.
If you actually want advice I will overcome that visceral reaction and try to help. Could you tell me a little about yourself? Age/Sex/Education/Work Experience/Interests/Computer Skills etc,
You asked them what to do to have an impact in the world? If they don’t share your values, their all-things considered advice isn’t automatically valid.
No, just maximizing earnings. It’s hard to get people to answer specific questions like that, they prefer to answer the questions which they want you to ask them.
So you asked them how to maximize your earnings, and they objected to the question? Did they say why?
Is it publicly given advice?
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