<p>True. Your income depends entirely on you. People of an ivy-league calibre will get more income over the course of a lifetime on average because those people tend to have a better mix of intelligence and work-ethic than your average state school student.</p>
<p>Speaking of investment banking, what a profession, especially these days. I certainly wouldn’t like to be an ibanker today.</p>
<p>I don’t see why people work so hard to become one anyways, they max out at what…$200,000k on average? 300k? There are better ways to become financially successful than managing and losing people’s money.</p>