Non-traditional Student
Aloha,
My background:
I'm 27 years old and next year ill be applying for transfer to Berkeley has, hopefully with my 4.0 still intact.
Instead of going to school right away, at 19 I began training martial arts, eventually traveling the country competing before landing the dream job as a full-time instructor for the headquarters of BJJ's largest organization. While I still teach full-time (along w ft school) I now manage the facility and act as it's franchise consultant.
Martial Arts has turned me into a day-in, day-out grinder, and I want to take my talents to investment banking.
On top of work/school I am 2/3 the way through the excel courses necessary to get a certificate and test for the expert level exam, which I plan to complete before transferring.
I'm working on gathering as many contacts I have related to Investment banking in order to somehow leverage my way into an internship when the time comes.
Can anyone offer up some advice for a non-traditional student who is heading down the traditional (target school, internship searching) path?
Haas*
welcome! interesting background - best of luck on your journey, hope WSO can help you out!
as far as advice, you're making the right move by transferring to a target school - don't worry about your age and don't even mention it (illegal to even ask :-)
-Patrick
Haha. You read my mind.
Thank you Patrick
Really awesome background. Feel free to PM me if you have any specific questions.
Thank you Cash. I'll PM you now.
If anyone else has any advice, or as Cash has done, can offer some time to work with me personally, whether by email or even a phone interview, this would be worth more to me than gold.
To elaborate on my situation, as I said above, I currently work the dream job, but I have reached the ceiling for martial arts pay scales. That said, the decision to move into IB has very little to do with money. I see a potential analyst position at a BB as the fastest way to learn finance, an industry that has peaked my interest for some time now and has given me that giddy feeling of being a white belt all over again.
Discounted Cash Bro: I tried to PM you but I don't have enough juice around here yet haha (I need 10 bananas). If you could, shoot me your email. "Brearin.Land" at gmail dot com
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