Career in Commodity Trading: FO Internship + MSc Finance or full-time ABCD?

Tough choice ahead of me...


I will graduate in 2021 from a non-target, undergraduate uni. I am keen to start a career in commodity trading with a focus on oil/gas/minerals/freight  (I worked one year in the trading function of a major European utility), and there are two paths I could follow:


  1. I have secured a summer internship within an oil supermajor's gas trading team (England). This would be followed by the MSc Finance & Investments at the Rotterdam School of Management (#25 MSc Finance by the World University Rankings 2021).

or

  1. Accept a commercial merchandising trainee offer in the agricultural division of a major commodity trading firm (ABCD) to start in April 2021 in a remote town in England.

Any idea?

 

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