It's Friday. Flashback memory when I worked at JP Morgan, I was SO looking forward to Fridays because... it was "dress down Friday!" Did not have to wear suit pants, suit shoes and a shirt for work, as a dev. Could wear jeans (but no T-shirts!) Put up with it because... money

When I moved up to London, job ads showed salaries and nothing paid more than banking at the time (they paid about 20% more than startups). And so I went for it, and got the job. 1.5 years later I got a job for the same pay at a tech company (Skype). Where people lived and breathed tech (not finance!) and the thought of being told what to wear at work was laughable. It was the most refreshing-ever move of my career. Made me realize "what was I doing in banking?"

Btw reason for needing to dress formal is 1. we were in the same building as traders 2. I was front office, occasionally interacting with traders 3. anything client-facing is formal, and we worked with client-facing ppl - aka traders/marketers (but were not client facing)

FWIW I am not regretting working at JPM. Looking back, it was the job where I was the most "misfit" (I did not click with the job and it didn't click with me) but I saw a lot, learned a lot, and saw an environment most people working at "tech-first" companies never see

I also learned SO MUCH about finance! JPM had internal self-paced training... most was on finance. So I spent a year doing a lot of it. My team worked on exotic derivatives products like delta one swaps and I was determined to understand it all I did so and realized... I just don't care too much about any of this?

I also learned SO MUCH about finance! JPM had internal self-paced training... most was on finance. So I spent a year doing a lot of it. My team worked on exotic derivatives products like delta one swaps and I was determined to understand it all. I did so and realized... I just don't care too much about any of this?