I personally think the education and curriculum one gets from biz skwl is pretty much a waste especially for someone who's entering from an undergrad in business. So my question to you all is what graduate programs are there for people who really want to stand out specifically in research. i'm thinking maybe getting into a specific grad program in say geology or oil and gas as this is an area of research id like to get into but I really don't know if this ideas the best call...
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The reason I am commenting here is about your research question as it is sort of my thing. I am not sure that it is the degree you have that matters so your ability to be good at at least one part of the process. If you want to get serious publications you need a degree in the field it is that you want to be published in otherwise you really wont be taken seriously at all. You cannot generalize in research or you will never get published.
You need to be good at: 1. having an ultimate objective theory to test in mind first... or you will get killed 2. collecting massive amounts of information and compiling into a database [Programming and Primary data collection skills like getting rocks or whatever it is that geologists do] 3. manipulating that information and analyzing it [Access, JMP, SAS, Excel, etc, Statistics] 4. writing [tying your statistics back to a logical construct or established theory or question in some manner] 5. theorizing on the analysis and writing if your theory was correct or not
I also hope you like the long shitty hours. :p
what kind of long shitty hours are you referring to... i hope you don't mean banking hours
In many ways it can be worse because you dont have a lot of the resources. Also, it depends the sort of research it is that you are doing. I was working about 20 hour days, but we cranked out a ton of research.
Ideally you might want to try and network or get a masters or get a phd and then try and give reports on "light" research, like ER type stuff on what WTE futures look like and what not. The more heavily you go into any part of the science aspect the more you will be treated like a nerd, the more there is a push to get published in science type journals rather than do finance publications (so less money and more work - yuck), and the longer hours.
It really does sound like you want to do something like ER in mining or oil.
I am surprised no one mentioned CFA.
If you're working 20 hour days you're doing it wrong.
Typical hours are probably 55-65 hours a week. During earnings, that's probably bumped up to 65-75 hours depending on how the schedule lays out. Not much work on the weekends unless you're launching a note/report for Monday morning. All of this is variable on the analyst that you work for quite honestly. Some like to put out more research than others.
CFA MBA MS Econ MS Finance MFE MS Engineering w/ Quant focus
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