Can you not graduate and still work in Finance?
So I meet this guy who left my college a few years ago and now works for a small Accounting company.
Now, he tells me he never graduated because he never fulfilled his core requirements but finished all the requirements for his major and got the 120 credits needed for an UG degree.
And he's International and working on a H1 right now, and you definitely need a Bacherlor's degree for that.
He tells me he did not graduate though.
Something is not adding up. Is this guy lying?
I know a trader who dropped out of university and is now making over a million a year and is very high up on the ladder of a MM canadian bank, so I would believe it.
Who cares
i didn't graduate from my grad program. best decision of my life. most firms and interviewers respect my decision.
this is complete bullshit, I'm pretty sure most if not all offers are contingent upon you actually graduating your program that you claimed to be in on your application/resume. Stop dreaming and finish whatever it is that you started.
You need an 8th grade education to be a trader, but calculus and probability- and some experience using them in tougher courses- never hurts all that much. (Then again, given the current state of the industry, why would anyone ever WANT to be a trader if they could be an engineer or work for an F500 firm?)
IMHO, college has very little bearing on how competent of an employee you're going to be 10 years out. Obviously it means more opportunities, and some fields- like engineering, accy, and maybe production-level programming- require a certain level of training, but where you go to school and even whether you graduate in many cases doesn't have a huge bearing on your competency or skill. It does affect your opportunities- for better or for worse.
99.9% of the time you will need a legitimate 4 year degree to work in finance unless you're a rock star trading s&p e-minis out of your mom's basement. Finance is all about the aesthetics.
Most large companies have the HR department fact check resumes and make sure that they finished school. smaller / private companies don't seem to care as much....you do the math
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