Have You Ever Felt Like You F****D Up?
I'm sure I'm not alone. Has anyone ever looked back at their path so far and been grossly unhappy with it and been able to right the way?
Don't get me wrong, there are parts of my past that I'm proud of can't help looking at it desiring so much more. I wish I went to a better school. I wish I chose a more exciting major. I wish I never went into public accounting and grinded my ass off to get into IB. I wish I would have believed in myself when I was younger like I do now.
There have been so many times that I think to myself that I've f***d up. I struggled with what I wanted to do until about 18 months ago, I discovered my dream. My dream is to join a social impact investment fund with a focus on investing in growth stage healthcare startups. I'm not naive enough to look at my resume and think I have a shot getting into a fund today.
While I haven't taken the a good route to achieve my dream (non-target state school accounting -> Audit>TAS>CorpDev), I plan to carve my path forward the right way. Make the right connections and gain the right experience.
Has anyone else ever felt like they've take a few too many wrong turns and have been able to right the way?
I think a lot of it is changed luck/changed circumstances. I was a petroleum engineer major graduating between 2015-2017. What was a genius move turned out one of the worst moves possible.
What went wrong? How did you pivot?
That was during the oil pricing collapse when the Saudis decided they weren't going to limit their output and oil prices plunged. It forced a lot of oil companies out of business and Houston (and other oil centric economies) basically died.
oil prices went from $100 to $35. No jobs. I started slangin software
Do you at least like what you do now? That's pretty rough timing.
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