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started. Our next Reddit post is from Department Killer. To keep it vague, my old company is a fairly

large real estate investment company worth roughly $10 billion. I was part of a very niche mergers

and acquisitions team that was typically always the black sheep of the company. It felt like

anything we did was just a hassle overall, and it wasn't really worth the company's time to

entertain these acquisitions anymore. I was part of this tiny team, three people including myself,

the close over 60 deals per year, with 45-50 active deals at any given time. Typically, each deal

took about four to nine months from start to finish, depending on the seller's competence level

and organization. This was my first job out of college. I knew the career path that I wanted to

take was going to be long hours and no vacations, but typically in finance, the salary reflects

that commitment. Well, for this job, I was making $52,000 a year working 80-hour weeks, so roughly $12.50

cents an hour for gross pay. After my first full year, I requested a 20% raise with the VP of the

department, and I was given the basic inflation spiel, and I got a 2% cost of living adjustment.

I think it's important to note here that after I left this company, I found out that same VP

received a $2 million bonus. Fast forward a couple of months. Every year, the company has a meeting

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