You may be undervaluing, or at least under-emphasizing, the idea of strategically ejecting from a maze. If your LinkedIn profile is accurate, you currently make a living as a trader. Your ability to execute on that is likely heavily influenced by your time in (firm’s) maze, both in terms of knowledge capital and financial capital you extracted from the maze.
It is plausible that spending a few years in a maze is +EV for a relevant fraction of people, and that “know what you’re signing up for and plan your exit strategy from day 0” is better advice than “avoid at all costs”.
Agree that it could be +EV to sign on where you would learn specific skills—e.g. I am very confident that Year 1 at my firm is a very good school they pay you to go to! The question is whether you can trust yourself to execute on the exit strategy in light of what will happen to you and the choices you will be presented with. I’d be pretty scared of this failing.
You may be undervaluing, or at least under-emphasizing, the idea of strategically ejecting from a maze. If your LinkedIn profile is accurate, you currently make a living as a trader. Your ability to execute on that is likely heavily influenced by your time in (firm’s) maze, both in terms of knowledge capital and financial capital you extracted from the maze.
It is plausible that spending a few years in a maze is +EV for a relevant fraction of people, and that “know what you’re signing up for and plan your exit strategy from day 0” is better advice than “avoid at all costs”.
Agree that it could be +EV to sign on where you would learn specific skills—e.g. I am very confident that Year 1 at my firm is a very good school they pay you to go to! The question is whether you can trust yourself to execute on the exit strategy in light of what will happen to you and the choices you will be presented with. I’d be pretty scared of this failing.