First, there are so many related households. In the first 30 years, the industry was almost established by related households. In the 90s, when a group of people who returned from studying abroad gradually established China's capital market and gradually formed the basic model of China's capital operation, an important reason why this group of people were able to succeed was that they had a relatively strong background. Let's take a look at the main members of CICC back then, and it was the system reform system of the year that year, how many amazing family backgrounds were accommodatedMoreover, many of the people who carried out investment and financing business around the 90s had strong family backgrounds. After 2000, a new batch of second-generation people entered the expanded financial industry, especially the most prosperous investment banking business at that time. About a dozen years ago, an overseas ** finally exposed the "secret" of hiring employees in China of large investment banks, that is, the children of so-called key tasks. This is the tip of the iceberg that has long been unveiled of the unspoken rules. And that's just the tip of the story. A large number of people with various relationship backgrounds and family backgrounds work in investment banking, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other fields. As long as you do a little higher in the financial industry, you will immediately be able to encounter information such as whose son, whose daughter, whose wife or little wife and so on. The proportion of such characters, according to my experience, is much higher than that of any other industry.
Second, it is a great test of human nature. A few years ago, a famous male host was arrested, and after being arrested, an article wrote that when he approached too many powerful figures, he felt as if he had become a member of the power class. In the financial industry, it is too easy to give people such illusions. The business you talk about is hundreds of millions, billions or even tens of billions, the customers or business partners you contact are all in the Forbes list, and the relationships you contact are all at the department level, and it is common for you to be at or above the ministerial level. You are "fed" by such an environment, as if you are in the subway, but you are leading the times, drinking coffee, you can also guide the country, catch a taxi, and worry that the world will be chaotic because of you. Moreover, if you talk about hundreds of millions of billions of projects all day long, then it seems that tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands are not much money, just sprinkling water. But in fact, the glamorous migrant workers are still migrant workers, and when they take off their high-end suits, they are actually monkeys. Other people's money is not your own, if you want to cross the thunder pool, you will have to pay an unimaginable price for ordinary people, and it may not be available. So, when you are immersed in this environment for too long, your happiness "threshold" will be set very high. Without strong self-control, it will be difficult for you to adapt to the normal life environment and rhythm. And this kind of impact on human nature has made many, many practitioners lose the ability to experience happiness.
Third, the industry is changing so fast. This industry is a typical industry of morning flowers. No sub-industry can dominate for a long time, no institution can be in the lead, and no one can really develop steadily. The vast majority of people are like waves, one wave after another. To put it bluntly, many people grabbed a little bit of food inside, and then they disappeared from everyone. In the past decade, the financial industry has become more stringent, and many industry practices have been broken and cut off. What you can do today will become a violation tomorrow. In addition, this industry is the most emphasizing the continuation of the cycle, once the cycle is broken, then it will inevitably bring a deep pit, that is, the risk of thunder. Therefore, when the original policy changes, the industry can only be in deep trouble in risk disposal. This industry is very special, but in the long term, there is nothing special. When you are in it, you feel that the world changes because of you;When you jump out of the circle, you see that you think you are playing monkey, but in fact you are the monkey.