Career Advice Needed - 30 years old and feel like window is closing
Dear fellow monkeys,
Long time lurker, first time poster here.
A bit about myself, I have a very non-conventional background - I graduated from university abroad in my home country and started out in a local leasing firm as a credit officer analysing leasing credits for SME companies.
After doing this for three years I enrolled at and got admitted to a non-target MBA program . Post-MBA I have been working for a Japanese bank for 3 years as a strategy analyst. This is a very generalist position where I was staffed on a wide variety of projects including a restructuring/workout of a bond portfolio, originating and structuring several power generation project finance deals, and internal credit research and loan portfolio management and ratings analysis of a wide variety of issuers in my coverage sector to name a few.
I feel that I have gained good skills relating to credit risk analysis and broad energy industry expertise.
I would like to transition to one of the BB banks' M&A, LevFin, or RX functions for a stint mainly for the training aspect and my ultimate goal is to work on the buy side related to energy, or specifically in distressed debt/special situations while leveraging my knowledge of the energy sector.
However, I'm now 30 and I wonder if I'm too old to go in at the associate level or if the whole window for getting into ibanking/buyside fixed income has closed, or how I should channel my networking/search efforts.
Additionally I wonder if bankers are receptive to networking requests from older candidates such as myself and not students.
Do I have a chance?
Bump?
Your experience sounds solid, your best bet would be to go through the individuals you worked with on said projects. Network internally, if they like you they will help whether it's internal or external. Don't consider yourself above the analyst level at this point. You can transition to BB later.
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