Off the beaten path
ill be the first to admit that i'm pretty naive on the subject, but i figured i may as well throw something out there before making more assumptions.
I'm a pretty outdoorsy guy who is a junior undergrad at wharton, and its becoming clear that I'd be much happier with a job that doesn't force me to feel caged in an office from 8-8 day after day after day. Also, I'd love to do something that has some sort of societal and/or environmental impact (which is may even be more important than being somewhat out of the office). Money is important to an extent, but I don't have to make a ridiculous amount, especially out of college.
Clearly, that doesn't seem to align well with finance for the most part, so I'm wondering if you had any suggestions of what other things I should look at (both short and long term I guess).
Things I'm looking at: VC that measures social/envionmental impacts in addition to economic returns. Other things include GS Sustain, JPM Social Finance, although I don't know much about them. Past that, I don't really know where to begin.
Getting out of the office, social/environmental impact, and making more than average would be the best, but I know that's probably impossible. Anything close you can think of would be awesome.
Any help?
You could work in micro finance or something similar in the developing world. That would be 'outdoorsy' and give you that societal impact that you want.
Peace Corps. Great life experience and gives far better exit ops into the fields HPM mentions above, than most realize.
IFC, World Bank, public finance consulting, life sciences VC/PE, infa investing is what comes to mind. Hard finance is not exactly the "outdoorsy" type of industry though. I'd recommend switching careers, so many other things out there. you can join a circus.
also 8am-8pm is nothing. I work those hours and couldn't be happier. I know micro finance kids who love their jobs and work just as hard as bankers (including traveling) and never hear them complaining (like we do). I'd expect long hours (in any professional industry) atleast for the first 2-4 years out of undergrad if you want to learn/impress seniors. It's not like your avg. 22-23 year old has a wife and kids to go home to everyday anyway.
8-8 is a fucking vacation
oldman can you explain infa investing? (no idea what that stands for).
id definitely agree that "long" hours are pretty much requisite at the start of any career, I'm just looking to see what, if anything, there is on the horizon because that carrot will always be dangling if you know what im saying
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