Advise for fast promoting

Hey everyone! I am currently in lock down and would really appreciate your opinion on how to take advantage of it in a way that can positively affect my career, since I don´t really value my free time while social distancing.

A bit of context: Started working two months ago (straight out of undergraduate, double major in economics and finance from a **very **prestigious school ) as an analyst in an equity REIT, it´s a big company but the REIT itself is not. I work in development and multi family, and will probably have a few chances in the future to also work in CRE and infrastructure (but not in at least 6-12 months). Most of my tasks consist on financial modeling of new opportunities and pitching them to the investment´s committee, as well as management control of on going deals. I´ve had really like it and would like to either advance within the company or into REPE.

We work about 50-60 hours a week and I was thinking about just working more, but I´m not sure if this will have a great impact since I am working from home and my boss isn´t really on top of me (and he has been pleased with my work so far). I also thought of reading a lot of books to get a better understanding of RE and finance in general (please share any book you think would be great for this) . My last idea was to prepare the CFA/CAIA, but my company pays for it as long as you´ve been here for over a year, so I don´t think it´s a good idea to pay for the first one myself.

What would you guys do?

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I personally would try to move to infra (but take that with a grain of salt as I work in pure CRE and could never have accomplished what I've done/made this kinda money in infra)

Part of me says work your butt off but another part of me says save your energy because if you hit 32 and fucking hate your career due to overworking then that would be sad. It's a marathon and working yourself to death at 24 doesn't guarantee a rapid ascent. Meanwhile our industry is full of clever douchebags who worked 'smarter not harder' so keep that in mind. Or they knew someone or their dad did etc.

 

Thank you! I really can't work in infra right away because we all have the same job tittle but I am in charge of development/MF, but I've been told that I will swap deals with an analyst from CRE and/or infra sometimes in order to have a broader industry understanding. Still about 90% - 95% of my deals will be development/MF.

 
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