What to do when everything interests you?
Going into my Junior year at a non-target school in the North East. I have good grades (3.7) as well as decent experience, WM at a BB bank. One of the heads of an investment group. I network almost every night and have a good network of guys built up at all the major banks in NYC. Everyone tell tells me I am ahead of the curve and that I am doing all the right things to securing an IB position in the following summer. Reading vault guides, M&I 400 guide, and all other tech/ modeling guides.
Here is where the issue comes in:
I am not sure if IB is what I want to do 100%. I have an interest in financial modeling, but I am also obsessed with following the markets and learning about fixed income products and other related market events. The issue I am having is I can't seem to focus on just one thing. Meaning I can't just focus on IB interviewing because I also want to focus on market events and hedge fund related things. I don't want to pigeon whole myself into one area of finance and I am getting overwhelmed with all the information that is out there as applications are going to be due in roughly 4-5 months. I've been networking mostly in the IB area because that is the area that would be the hardest to break into.
To be honest, I also have experience trading and people say I am a great sales man so S&T has interested me as well. But I feel as though because I only have a finance and economics degree the lack of quantitative degree will hurt me. I like looking up and reading about derivatives, CDS, MBS, and following the everyday markets more than I like financial modeling and shit like that.
Would love to know everyone's thoughts.
Do M&A. Do it for two years, then buyside. And then you can obsess about public markets until your heart's content
Thanks for responding man I really appreciate it. Just curious, why you say that? I know IB teaches you a skill set that is second to none and I know I have the work effort to and my old boss at MS WM said I had one of the best work ethics he had ever seen. But I am nervous I wont succeed in the interviews if I cant focus on improving my financial modeling and IB technical skills 100%.
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