I’m just all over the place.
Seeking some advice here. My current career path is as follows;
1) Graduated from a non-target end of 2020.
2) Accepted a valuation role at a major valuation firm. Got bored to death and left after 10-11 months.
3) Accepted a corporate finance role in October at a music company out West working on catalog acquisitions and various music deals.
4) I’ve only been with my current company since October, but my friend landed me an offer at a small healthcare PE firm in my home town. Ultimately, my goal has been to land on a deal team at a PE firm. This seems like the perfect opportunity for me and I could see myself staying there for the rest of my career. But the timing is terrible.
I am really trying to decide what I want to do here. On one hand, it’s a solid opportunity. On the other hand, I feel like I’m bouncing around everywhere and developing a reputation as a job hopping loser. One of my former mentors has closed the door on me because he thinks my career moves have been questionable and that I’m too “all over the place”.
I don’t have much else to add. I could use some advice here.
You can't change the past, and you're 2 years into hopefully a very very long career. Figure out what you want to do, craft a really good story as to your background and interest in PE and pound the pavement. Is MF PE in your future? Probably not but fuck there are enough people out there for someone to give a young, hungry kid a shot. Plus the music catalogue space has been pretty hot.
To each their own, but I think your mentor is a dick.
Thank you dude. I appreciate the encouragement here.
Like you said, I don’t end up at a huge fund but that’s never been my goal. I’d be perfectly content at a small fund and working reasonable hours. My close friend works at this firm and said they rarely work last 5:30. Downside is that I’d barely clear $100k all-in as a first year analyst but I think I’m okay with the comp sacrifice.
Bump- pls share your thoughts :)
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