New Here...Is it too late?!?
Good afternoon, I am new here and wanted to say I love the site and all the information that is available here. Now I'd like to ask for some of your opinions. I am a 27 year old business/finance major, I had a child at a young age so I had to postpone college for awhile.I am also studying to take the Series 7. I have always been very interested in business and investment. My goal is to work for an investment firm and then eventually start my own. Part of me feels like its too late though. I look at most people my age and they have already been in the business for quite a few years. I get very down on myself at times when I think of where I should be in relation to where I'm at. Is it too late? Am I wasting my time and effort?
Nothing is ever a waste of time - we gain something from whatever we do, whether it's the ultimate fruit of success or the experience and knowledge that comes from failure. It's important to know that, as there will be plenty of failure along the way to any goal. Moreover, the state of your personality is the gauge by which you measure your progress on the way to any goal; if change is what you need to succeed, you will not be the same person upon reaching your dream as you were when you started.
All that said, simply assess where you stand in relation to where you want to be. Can you make it? Yes - anything is possible. Will you make it? That's a function of how determined you are to make the necessary sacrifices, of which there are and will be many.
How will you make it? That's for you to figure out. This is the part where you swallow any pride you have and set aside any fear you harbor of being told that you can't make it and to give up, because people will say that. So, figure out where you stand (perhaps posting your resume on this site would help), learn about where you want to go (whether it's a career in banking, trading, or anything else), and plan how you're going to get there (networking into a job, doing a MSF/MBA/CFA/whatever, etc.).
And may the force be with you...
agree completely
Thank you for your input FSC! It is greatly appreciated!
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