New User in Need of Career Advice

Hello WSO,

I am an incoming transfer student at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell where i plan on Dual Majoring in Economics and Mathematics with a career goal of working as a Bond trader or credit risk analyst

The institution i attended before transferring Umass Lowell was The Massachusetts Maritime Academy where i majored in Emergency Management and attained a GPA of 3.1.

My only Internship was last summer where i interned at Bain Capital LLC. doing Business Continuity.

Also i was wondering if it would be wise to go straight to graduate school to study Mathematical Finance to help secure a job as a Bond Trader/Credit Risk?

Also i should add that i have a family member who is a VP at Goldman Sachs in FICC.

With all of this background info, what advice would you give a rookie chimp to achieve his career goal? Like for example would a dual major in math and econ be a good stepping stone to Credit/Bond Trading?

Thank you everyone in advance for the help.

10 Comments
 

You shouldnt be trying to work for a specific firm. You should be trying to set yourself up to land a job doing what you want to do. Ill let someone with more trading experience weigh in on the rest of it but zeroing in on Goldman is ridiculous.

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Honestly your best bet is to tell your family member to make MD. That's probably what will help you the most at this point...

Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 

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