Family vs IB PE

Hey Guys first post here,

I come from a third world country and did my undergraduate schooling in a good school in Europe mainly focused on hospitality (Ranked top 3 in hospitality) got a ba and two hospitality diplomas and a specification in marketing. I then went to work at my family’s firm we own restaurants across the Middle East 13 locations to be exact and mainly franchise. The experience was good I got promoted to directors of finance and Buisness development two departments created when I stepped in the firm. I then went on to studying alternative asset with Cornell and coreperate finance with Harvard I earned a certificate from both. I’m considerig Bschool Harvard or Stanford and then moving into PE or IB I don’t want to stay in the Middle East and since there is no succession planing the job is not stimulating. I have completed an investment banking and deals advisory internship at a Big 4 accounting firm. Any advice on wether I should stay with the family firm or bounce. I’m also on the National team for one of the sports that I played in college and I started an NGO that helps refugees.Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

 
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Charif-Khoury:
Hey Guys first post here,

I come from a third world country and did my undergraduate schooling in a good school in Europe mainly focused on hospitality (Ranked top 3 in hospitality) got a ba and two hospitality diplomas and a specification in marketing. I then went to work at my family’s firm we own restaurants across the Middle East 13 locations to be exact and mainly franchise. The experience was good I got promoted to directors of finance and Buisness development two departments created when I stepped in the firm. I then went on to studying alternative asset with Cornell and coreperate finance with Harvard I earned a certificate from both. I’m considerig Bschool Harvard or Stanford and then moving into PE or IB I don’t want to stay in the Middle East and since there is no succession planing the job is not stimulating. I have completed an investment banking and deals advisory internship at a Big 4 accounting firm. Any advice on wether I should stay with the family firm or bounce. I’m also on the National team for one of the sports that I played in college and I started an NGO that helps refugees.Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

Yeah, bro, if you studied alternative asset with Cornell and coreperate finance with Harvard, considerig Bschool Harvard or Stanford and then moving into PE or IB would be a good move. Go for it!

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