How to get there? As always it’s more about your networking ability than specific technical skills.
The best paid people I know have those jobs because they chatted up some random person outside a restaurant, at the airport, on the plane or at some event like Serpentine gallery’s “future contemporaries”.
London of all places is full of ludicrously good networking opportunities. Anyone with basic social skills who can create websites can hustle their way into an Annabel’s membership.
The people who actually put in some real effort will land those jobs, often regardless of their actual skills.
I’m an eastern European tech worker from a poor family that deliberately forced my way into situations where I’d be surrounded by the rich and powerful. After a few years most of my friends were such people, after a few more I found myself married to the daughter of a billionaire.
A lot of tech people just don’t understand is that this kind of bullshit is exactly how you win. People working in finance or law mostly seem to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> I’m an eastern European tech worker
> I found myself married to the daughter of a billionaire.
dude, you don't exist
No, but there sure are a plenty having lunch at LPM, dinner at Coya or Zuma.
> dude, you don't exist
I think this is something you’ll only hear from people who have never put in the slightest effort to infiltrate such circles.
Turns out that being the guy that bullshitted your way in automatically makes you the most interesting person in the room.
I’m just a regular gold digger, just like ~30% of the people in my post code.
That said theres a weird schism between finance and everything else in London. Whats normal for finance isnt normal elsewhere and finance is often a bit insular.