No skills gained at work - no fin modeling
Hi guys,
I'm currently in my first year at Associate 3 level at one of the Big4s. It's not in the EU, I'm in one of the frontier market offices.
Let's start with the intro: I got back in Finance after couple of years of travelling the world, doing backpacking, volunteering at UN in East Asia, taking language classes - I did everything I love doing when not at work. So, it's been 9 months since I'm here at this new job and not even once I ever did anything close to financial modeling. In banking I did, in consulting - not doing it. The thing is, our Advisory practice here is new and we're sort of a young team, so most of our projects are done in collaboration with other stronger offices.
I feel like, I'm only doing feasibility, marketing etc nonsense work and nothing close actual real work. I'm really demotivated and disappointed. I knew, I wouldn't be able to get back in banking or Big3 after such a long break from career, but still - I didn't expect Big4 to be so bad.
Did anyone have experience with not reaching their potential at work? How did you resolve it? Should I think about quitting? Should I stay and wait? I'm stressed about it and really feeling like I'm wasting my life and time here..
Any input from wiser and mature colleagues would be super appreciated.
Off the topic, I think financial modelling is a little over-rated on this forum...Everybody thinks it's the end of the world if he can't get exposure to financial modelling. In fact the stuffs we learned from Breaking Into Wall Street account for just a small portion of finance, maybe a large portion of banking, but not the case in the entire field of finance.
Hi, thnx for your input! I just want "transferrable skills" - it's rather better to have real practice in fin modeling than not. Of course, agreed, it's not everything, it's just another important part of working in Finance. I have managers with great sales skills, not very technically genious, then I have fin modeling geeks who have bad team relations. I'd personally trust only the manager who has both skills on set..
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