What to do if you don't like financial modeling
For those who did IB and realized you did not enjoy financial modeling, what did you recruit for?
I assume corp dev/strategy roles are off the table since those require modeling too
What don’t you like about modeling?
Bump.. I just fkn hate looking at a dumb spreadsheet all day and analyzing numbers. Prefer discussing impact of the numbers and bigger picture
Try tech sales
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Very early stage VC - potentially pre-revenue as well seems logical to me
I mean pretty much anything finance related is going to require modeling lol. Maybe not DCF / LBO, etc. but certainly financial forecasts, planning, etc. I don't see a way around this unless you do some buyside role where the entire job is sourcing (e.g. early stage VC, a few PE funds idk).
With that said, a large portion of my friends started off as Finance majors at Wharton, hated it with a passion, and have swapped to other jobs. I've seen:
-One went into product management at a startup (had to self-learn coding)
-One took a semester off to go to Horizons coding bootcamp and secured a Bloomberg job after
-One went into management consulting (still some excel work, but less than finance)
-One went into marketing at F500
-One said fuck America and went back to South Asia to start his own impact startup
-One went into sales at a medical device startup
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