Quote: (12-13-2016 02:48 AM)Secrenis Wrote:
A quick look on Linkedin shows what he's been doing for the past ten years.
- 18 - 21 : MIT Math grad (+econ minor). Graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
- 21 - 27 : Trader at D.E. Shaw.
- 27 - 28 (now) : Portfolio manager at Citadel.
A dumb person can't graduate Phi Beta Kappa from MIT (i.e. top 2% of class, roughly 4.8-5.0/5.0 GPA). Nor can they get a trading position at D.E. Shaw or
keep if for 6 years. Soooo we can conclude that:
- he is not dumb. In fact, he is obviously very intelligent and hard workign
- he kills what he eats : You can't bullshit your way through MIT or the trading floor. If you're good, you get compensated. If you're not, you get sacked.
- he has been consistently performing at high level for the past ten years. Fifteen to twenty if we include pre-MIT.
It's not clear to me why you think he's dumb or why you attribute his success to nepotism. All I see is a high performing individual, who has made one
good decision after another, suddenly making a mistake.
I'll admit he likely didn't get those positions on charm, but it does remain that you can be a high achiever in your job and still be utterly fucking clueless when it comes to women.
Bear in mind he's making the kind of mistake he would have seen and been warned about in his job for years. As you say, he kills what he eats: the trading floor is not exactly a SJW paradise, mainly because it's brutally results-oriented. The men there work hard (admittedly to little social purpose, but hey) and they tend to play hard too. He was only able to bag former models because his job allows him to move in those circles.
His problem was his approach. As armenia said further up: make your intentions clear from the start unless you want to get taken like this. This guy was playing the classic, old, high-resources-beta-provider method of keeping his mistress: keep stringing her along on a promise of eventual marriage -- eventual legitimacy.
I say it was the old approach because high-end, old-school mistresses valued discretion and ideally legitimacy more than money: producing a bastard was a guarantee of social exile and therefore the casting out from paradise, so they instead used the threat of revelation of the affair to the wife, and they were better at seducing husbands away from their wives, too.
Not so the unmarried thirtysomething in a society that doesn't care about legitimacy of birth or marriage, not in a society where the divorce rate hit or is still close to 50% and therefore every second person you meet is statistically likely to be a single parent or a child with only one parent in its life. Such women are unrestrained by social exile: there's plenty of well-off divorcees now, and the social set is wide enough that you can get by even if you're disinvited to certain parties in the Hampdens. There's no wife to complicate the picture and she has the state behind her.
But as said, if he'd paid attention during trading bull sessions anyone could have told him that. Someone of reasonable intellect in more than one area of his life would have appreciated the risks.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm