Is it too late?
I have been working for a payments company for about 10 months and I work for their strategy team. I graduated from a non-target school with a BBA in Finance. Although I do deal directly with the finance department, I'm not directly exposed with corporate finance.
I have been contemplating in changing careers and drifting my path. I live in South Florida and it has been tough landing a finance related job without prior work experience. Most jobs down here are PWM and a few IB boutiques. My question is... would I have a chance landing an internship or rotational program if I already graduated? Also, should I just switch careers once I'm done with my MBA? (I plan on getting into a top MBA program in a few years)
Thanks for the advice.
Its never too late to break in, the bigger issue is how much time elapses. If networking like crazy doesn't get you anything you're going to have to start jumping closer to your finance goals.
IE: since you're in a back office gig shoot for something more related like boutique type asset management. CFA level 1 will very very slightly help as it shows you know the basics of finance. Network again after these two things are set up. All else fails you can make another jump closer to IB say in research/sales and trading. If not then depending on the time lapse you get an MBA in worst possible case scenario.
You're only 10 months out of school that's not dead weight yet, i'd say closer to age 25/26 is when you should re-evaluate.
End of the day though, just depends on how badly you want to get in.
(as a side note the oldest first year analyst i've ever heard of was 27 and the oldest third year was 30 years old. The 30 year old did 2 years already through and went to "see the world" and travel and came back).
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