No idea if this is even the right place but here I go
I’m just looking for some general advice about school, work, and the order of things. My family is pretty well off but my parents are both in healthcare (my mom owns a Home Healthcare company and my dad is an insurance broker). If I wanted to go into healthcare I would be sitting pretty with a job waiting anywhere I wanted to go, however in finance this is not the case. Due to my sister and I needing to go to college (2 years apart) my parents and I decided that 2 years at a CC and then transferring out would be the best choice. I am currently a freshman looking at NYU stern going in for my junior year. I am currently trying to get any internship I can for this up coming summer and I'm pretty sure I have one lined up with a friend’s mom in the investment side of a wealth management firm.
The main reason for this post is because I basically have no idea what to do… the counselors at my school are shit and have no idea what their doing… they are used to placing kids in jobs as electricians and plumbers and transferring them off to shitty cheap state schools that are basically larger CCs. My other friends dad took a similar route going from CC to UMICH to starting his own VC Firm I’ve tried talking to him but I haven’t really gotten any help.
I really am confused about how to continue on, like I said I am furiously trying to find an internship even as a freshman to bump up my resume. I have taught and am continuing to teach myself about trading, accounting, and most other topics about investing that stretch way beyond what my professors can help me with professors. I am starting to invest by my self, and I am running my own company pretty successfully (a coral aquaculture farm to help save reefs and provide rare corals to local stores and aquarists). Due to lack of help from anyone and no guidance whatsoever I am trying to push on… I have no idea on what I am missing and or need to due, what I am doing right or wrong, or what my next step is.
Any and all help is appreciated
