My Strategy?

Here's what I have been thinking: Tell me how viable it is

1. Study Electrical Engineer
2. Look for internship for both engineering and finance.
3. Take the finance one if possible, if not settle with the engineer.
4. Look for for both engineering and finance again.
5. Settle for finance if possible, but if not, its not a bad idea to have more engineering internship. Repeat this step every year in university.
6. If able to secure a finance internship, attempt to into banking or trading or whatever.
7. If not, then use your experience in engineering to find a job in engineering. Either way, at least I have some experience out of this.

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What's your end goal? Do you just want to do banking to make money, or do you actually want to do banking as a career because you like it?

I'll tell you one thing, if you're not that far into your undergrad, ditch the engineering and go finance if you want to do banking. I have a comp sci undergrad and that has done didly squat for me even with finance internships and experience. Now I'm back for an MBA making up for my lack of finance undergrad.

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So I should just transfer? To be honest, I don't even know if I want to go into banking when I don't know enough of what the job entails. I know I like finance and investing in stocks and how money works but the job might not be something I like.

 
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