Say you didn’t work in finance, what field would you have chosen instead?
Say you didn’t go into finance, which field would you have chosen to work in instead?
And more importantly, why?
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Drug trafficking because drugs and money (so like IB)
Since I was very young I’ve always been fascinated by garage doors. If I didn’t go into finance I would have likely wanted to either design or make garage doors
I was pre-law for years and even took the LSAT. Eternally grateful I didn't go that route, but realistically that's where I'd be.
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Nothing else. Maybe law? Um.
Yeah I’d be no good at anything besides those two. Not coding, not medicine. Definitely not accounting (gasp)
Neurscience, Art, Poker, Military.
But, I've already been in those fields too.
Strip Club DJ
Just play t-pain albums
Law
Architecture
Urban planner
Restaurant critic
Firefighter
I studied for the LSAT and also studied for the California Bar and while the LSAT was fun and the show Suits is cool, actual law is EXTREMELY boring. With that being said, I still think about law career paths, specifically M&A law, but always have to catch myself and:
a) hit myself on the head to remember law is SUPER boring.
b) many lawyers you meet want to get out of law - they feel pigeonholed and no longer like it.
Some people don't like numbers, math, and finance, but I generally like finance and its applications. There are certain people out there who just LOVE the law and I would say it is probably 10% of lawyers or less and they are the people cut out for law. But, we are probably not law FREAKS like them.
we are not, and it was more a reflex to put it #1 which it isn't, but I always like forming legal arguments and occasionally listening to them vs models with hundreds of rows that my eyes glaze over sometimes. I was originally planning to go to law school but was discouraged after hearing a lot of what you had mentioned above.
Haven't even formally worked in Finance yet, but if I wasn't trying to pursue finance I'd love to do a PHD in Econ and become an economist
Or actually the ideal career would be a concert pianist but becoming an established concert pianist is near impossible, hence why I gave up on that dream when I was 12
Concert Pianist or Conductor would be the dream
Maybe a broker or something
Law. One of my favorite classes in college was constitutional law. Going through lots of the well known cases was very interesting.
Before studying economics, I originally was a biology major in my freshman year. If I continued to study that, I would either have applied for medical school or become a marine biologist
Purely academic college I would have studied classics and history at an LAC. Would have gone into govt work maybe taken the Foreign Service exam.
I probably would have opened a NY style deli in a wealthy ski town or somewhere abroad
Navy seal
Move to Scotland and work in a distillery.
Collectibles.
Or like a fucking cardboard manufacturing business. Something placid but that has a lot of growth potential. I just wanna own my own business. I think I’ll take the leap this year, I’ve been searching and have the funds.
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Billionaire trust fund playboy
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