Do you believe this? (1 Viewer)

[turtleface]

http://www.cpaaustralia.com.au/cps/rde/xchg/SID-3F57FEDF-F5D1A45D/cpa/hs.xsl/1017_23040_ENA_HTML.htm
There is also a link to the original source, where one respondent has expressed doubts.

I guess the question I'm asking is how they define "Investment Banker"

 

[redruM]

<insert reliance on CPA joke here>

 

[geetarjoe]

You'd probably make enough money to retire by 45.

But from personal experience, those hours are wrong.

A 60 hour week would be far more common. As for a 35 hour week, they're kidding themselves.

 

[Rorix]

They probably mean the guys in Ops that listened to you and got accounting majors

and a CPA no less!

 

[turtleface]

They probably mean the guys in Ops that listened to you and got accounting majors

and a CPA no less!

as opposed to majoring in finance and standing in the recruitment agency line

 

[bukwow]

Just over 70% of those who responded reckoned they would have chucked in banking by the age of 45, with the rest being gone by the time they get to the big five-o. But most don't particularly want to retire too early either; just 40% want to be vegging in front of the daytime soaps before the age of 40.

maybe those who responded to the hours are the people who actually have time to reply to the survey while the others are slogging themselves at work...

or maybe they were forced to lie about their work hours.

come on it has to be something! everyone would be at IB if this is true