If only you knew earlier
If you could go back and start over in the world of Finance, what would you do?
Whether it’s stay out of finance in general, change careers in finance, apply for certain jobs, etc…. now that you’ve gone through it what would you do differently?
I’ll start… I wish I would’ve cared less about my college GPA and more about connections & real world experience. I should’ve tried to land an entry level position in PE, HF, Big PWM firms, instead of going the paths I went down.
Ahh the old "what if..." I'll bite.
I wish I started banking straight out of school. Spent two years after graduation building my own business and travelling. Learned a ton about myself, and I couldn't see myself in banking without first going out and doing my own thing. Otherwise I just know I'd be sitting at my desk wondering "what if...?" for the rest of my life. That being said, I love my job in IB, and would have been happy going into it straight out of school.
Knowing what I know now, I would still go into IB and my coverage group… but I would’ve taken fewer quantitative classes in college and taken more courses on history, psychology, policy, etc.
And instead of the all the theoretical quantitative classes I took in math and statistics, I would’ve taken some courses in engineering and applied science.
I spend all day thinking about finance and numbers and deals now… wish I had spent class time in college learning about how the world works, and how it got here.
Wish I had thought more about whether or not I like finance. Being good at something =/= enjoying it. Regret not going into tech sales or consulting for a better WLB and different type of work.
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