Help needed regarding career decision.
Hey Guys! This is my first post, so be nice :)
I am a 23 year old Indian guy, who wants to achieve big things in life. I am extremely confused regarding what I should pursue as a career option. I have lost my interest in computer programming, and find it very boring and monotonous.
I have been looking into a career in Finance, but I am very confused whether I should go for it or not. Here are some of my talents, personality traits.
1. Good with numbers, interested in Mathematics, finds <span class='keyword_link'><a href="/resources/skills/economics" target="_blank">economics extremely interesting</a></span>, mediocre coding skills.
2. Analyses everything to death, from boring weddings to the most complex business situations. Likes
to create strategic plans for almost everything.
3. MBTI Personality Type - ENTJ or ENTP
4. Ambitious, Intense, Driven and Money Minded
5. Looks upto leaders like Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and other leaders who earned lots of
money, leave a legacy and impact the world at large.
6. Often described as pleasant, hard working, and charismatic. Loves public speaking and often
demonstrate good leadership skills.
7. Tends to be opportunistic, sometimes downright greedy and selfish.
8. No problem working hard and long hours as long as it's fullfilling..
These are some career options I'm considering -
A. Executive positions, CEO, CFO, Any position that pays a lot and let me take key decisions ( Although chances of that happening is very slim, since I'm not from an elite college.)
B. Entrepreneur( Very Risky, but a great experience nonetheless )
C. Hedge Funds / Private Equity
D. Quantitative Finance / Financial Engineering
F. Investment Banking as long as I'm doing meaningful work and not creating presentations or doing grunt work. :)
Since people here are much more mature and experienced than me, it never hurts to get some useful advice from you guys :).
Apologies for the long post, and if you made it this far, thank you for your patience and time.
A) Further down your career why not? But no one straight out of university is going to be a CEO or CFO (excluding family & small businesses and start-ups..)
B) Yeah sure if you have an idea, entrepreneurship is the only real way to make the absolute fuck you money (a few exceptions in media and sports, but most billionaires or hundreds of millions are entrepreneurs).
C) Very unlikely as a first job unless you have contacts, more so if you didn't go to a target school.
D) I don't know much about that job area, I met a guy yesterday who does financial engineering and it's his first job but he got it through a friend of his.
E) Good graduate option, not necessarily the most numerical career but very social, you get to work on a variety of projects and all-in-all a very interesting field. It is well paid but not like financial careers.
F) Like most jobs you would start off doing grunt work, it is quite monotone at the beginning but once you work your way up it becomes more interesting and it will open up a lot of options after 2/3 years
You haven't given much information, what are your qualifications? Work experience?
Based on what you have given and the general tone I would say go into IB then move to HF/PE.
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