Find Internships or Keep Current Job during school?
Hello everyone! Let me give you a little background about me.
I graduated last summer in accounting at the university of Utah. I decided accounting is too boring so instead of working at one of the big 4 firms; I got a job at a small financial advising company. I'm an operations specialist, meaning I make sure all client accounts are accurate and make quarterly reports.
For the first 6 months or so. I was really busy and learned a lot about finance (mostly basic introductions to asset allocation, alternative assets, etc)! I've found ways to do my job faster and now honestly takes me 10 hours a week to do my job, then I sit on my ass for the other 30 hours, looking busy.
I'm currently getting my masters in finance at U of Utah... After this semester I'll have 20 credits left. I could graduate as early as December 2016, or take my time in school and graduate spring 2017.
With that being said... What's my best option?
I recently went from salary ($40,000) to hourly ($22), working 30 hours a week. I feel like I could land a job making 50-55k plus $5500 per year of tuition reimbursement (if I take my school slow, which id have to do working 40 hours, they pay for 2 years; $11000).
The school says students with working experience makes on average $67500 after graduation; last semester average was $80,000...
Does it financially make sense to stay at my job where I do close to nothing (getting paid to do homework I guess), or find an internship where I could gain more experience while going to school... Or do I get an entirely different job?
Pros to staying at job: Getting Paid to do homework! ($22*10 hours a week *52 = $11440) Lots of ping pong playing (probably 3 games a day) I do get odd ball jobs like finding a new mutual fund that could potentially join our fund line up.
Cons to staying at job: I have little job satisfaction (Getting old going home knowing I did absolutely nothing). The potential of learning something on the job is not quite there... Probably taking less $$ than I deserve.
Pros of internship: Experience potential for long term position (maybe they hire me after intern?) Job Satisfaction
Cons of Internship: I'm their bitch. Uncertainty.
Pros of new job: More $$$ Job Satisfaction
Cons of new job Could be working 40+ hours (sucks doing that with school) Tuition reimbursement could tie me down to the company (unless I pay back the tuition) Maybe a new job this soon makes me look like a job hopper?
Clearly I've overanalyzed this already, and I'm slanted towards getting a new job, but it could lmake sense to stay for a while to get through one more semester of school?
Well, since you are in a secure position, you don't have to take the internship unless it's great, right? So I'd maybe cut down a touch on the ping-pong, and spend more time doing employer research and sending out your resume and see what happens?
Who knows? You might even get a PAID internship that rocks!
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