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Riiight. You didn't really believe ^THAT^, did you? XD
Nonetheless, I have a few questions I would love answers to, and I will try my best to make them not boring or obnoxious.
I have the starting point, the finishing point, and I am trying to have some idea of the road in between.
Where I want to be: * M&A in oil&gas
Where I am: * Engineering degree from a respectable, but not top school (had the brains, but not the money for something better) * GPA took a dive at some point, due to some extenuating circumstances; was at 3.75 - 4.0 before the event in question and 3.5 after, however the end result ended at 3.0 :( * Many extracurricular activities - leadership, athletic, and artistic * A little over a year of solid full-time work, and close to two years if you count internships. * Nature of work - Reservoir engineering: property evaluation (decline analysis, etc), economic decisions, numerical simulation *Sole research/recommendations for several projects; value created - over $0.5 Mil each for several smaller projects, and a big project that I am close to finishing with potential value created of over $20 mil *Young and very good-looking, if that counts for anything
What are my best options?
I have done some research and thus far the paths that I see are:
- Start as analyst and work from the bottom up
- Stay in Res. Eng for another year while applying to B-school 2.1 Get an MBA - will it help me to become an Associate without Analyst experience? 2.2 Get an MBA/JD - does the JD benefit to M&A outweigh the benefit of experience I could have gotten during the extra years? 3.Find an Investment bank looking to hire a Res.Eng with 10 years of experience for their M&A and beg them to take me as an apprentice of sorts (is it even realistic, assuming I found such a bank?)
Please keep in mind that I don't have any kind of banking background, so if any of it sounds plain ridiculous, I would appreciate if you point it out and explain why it is ridiculous :)) Also, i am currently reading several books, including Margin of Safety, Company Performance and Measures of Value Added, etc so I promise I am not lazy and expecting someone else to do all the work for me, any and all pushes in the right direction will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks :)
I predict everyone will give you shit for this statement:
"Young and very good-looking, if that counts for anything."
Why do you say that?
Oh yeah, I also don't mind working as an analyst, if that's a good route. I am used to and actually prefer working a lot and being very busy. I tried to enjoy the 40 hrs a week lifestyle, and it's something i want to save till retirement. I'm not scared of hard work.
2.1: I'm only going from what I read on here, but you can def get your mba and start off as an associate in banking with no prior analyst experience... obviously UT and Rice would be good places to look for O&G Banking... do a search on here to see if it is necessary to go for a full time mba at those schools (again, from what ive read, some banks won't recruit from part-time mba's).
Libor, thank you kindly. Your response echoes what I've heard from a couple of associates, so I think I'll just concentrate on B-school admissions meanwhile; seems to be the more efficient route. Also thank you for the search direction suggestions, learning a lot!
I don't necessarily want O&G specialization, I just assumed that a route like that might be easier for me because of my background (cue the joke about assuming XD)
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