"Working in a low paid job is incompatible with my personality"
Today's article on Deutsche Bank's analyst hiring spree has elicited an 'interesting' (and anonymous) response from an 'analyst.'
According to the respondent, working in a 'low-tier' occupation paying less than 50k per annum is "incompatible" with his (we imagine it's a he) personality.
He continues as follows....
"It is unreasonable to expect someone who has worked in the front office to suddenly be able to adjust to working with people who have very different personalities. For example, could you talk to people for whom the idea of going to the pub after work for drinks is considered fun? Of course not. What would you talk about? Sport, TV, relationships? Unfortunately, for someone who is intelligent, such conversations are intolerable. Also, would you be happy to work on projects which you consider beneath you? Projects that you could complete yourself in 5 days but which have been allocated a budget of 4 weeks? It is just not possible.
And so many candidates are faced with an unpleasant dilemma: accept a job that is beneath them...or remain unemployed until the market improves!"
Is this truth or exaggeration? Notably, a study published last year by the US National Institute of Health, found personality is a key determinant of career prestige and income.
The main elements of their findings are presented in the table below (click to access the link).
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They show that assertive, active, trustworthy, competent, dutiful, achievement striving, self disciplined people tend to both earn the most and do the most prestigious jobs. The opposite applies to neurotic, anxious, depressed, tender-minded people.
'Analyst' evidently falls into the first category.
