How hard is it for a person like my profile to get into I-Banking ?
I want to know how I can break into I-banking or any related field to jump start my career.
I'm 26 yrs old college dropout from Engineering (4 year ago). In fact I was kicked out of school for having a low GPA (1.6 Avg).
I have zero professional exp. There are large gaps in my employment history. I intend to go back to school this spring and the counselor said I could graduate with a semester and few summer classes with barely satisfying the 2.0 level.
Financially, I'm much more stable. I have been an active retail trader for a while mostly equity options and fx. Took some long GBP/USD position at historic low which paid of well. I have had a net income of approx 1.8 million in the this fiscal year ending July.
I have been thinking of getting into a MBA once I get the Ugrad finished but I'm skeptical if any decent school would entertain a candidate with a profile like mine.
Any suggestions or ideas welcome.
Thank you for reading this.
continue trading your own money?
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Is this a joke? I don't even think you can apply for banking without a college degree. In order to get in to a good b-school without an undergrad degree, you need to be George Bush's personal assistant.
Also, I don't think you know the difference between banking and S+T, which is clearly what you are leaning towards
Assuming you're not completely full of shit, why would you want to go to work for a bank (or anyone else for that matter) or go back to school? Realistically, starting from where you are right now, it would take a few massive strokes of luck and at least a decade inside the walls of a college and investment bank to replicate the results you've managed to produce over the past year.
Why go backwards?
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$1.8MM.......thread fails.
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