Hello,
I am working for a Fortune 10 Energy & Oil company right now and I'm looking to break out. Currently, I am part of a brand new analytics platform which is trying to capture every single Downstream market transaction, which we will quant the hell out of for eventual profit. It's a trickier problem than you might think. Anyway, athough it's nice to be learning so much about the downstream for oil, and although I find some of my supervisors very smart and apt teachers, I am ultimately dissatisfied because the company's pacing is slow and many of my co-workers, while nice, clearly joined the company for the security a large bureaucratic Energy company would offer and not to leverage the resources such a platform offers them. As far as I'm concerned, this slow, bureaucratic pacing is symptomatic of the entire industry. I can go into detail if someone cares to hear about some random man's thoughts on the inefficiencies in the industry ( I swear, I could just automate the company's back office a la your run-of-the-mill trading floor and become the king of the back office but I don't want a Back Office Beefcake shirt... the back office is so frustrating to deal with).
Is there a realistic way I can move into IB from here without an MBA? Aside from my current company and role, my resume includes an internship i had years ago in PE where I did some DD work for a principle and a director, some tech experience including working as a consultant at a technology firm that loves Wall Street and energy, and an econ paper I want to publish once I straighten some things out. If it matters comma I have an econ degree from a state school in New Jersey. I'm 24.
