What College Major ??
Hey everyone, I was watching a video on YouTube yesterday and 2 investment bankers who worked at SunTrust were walking through what investment banking is, work politics, what college you should go to, and what major choose to.
What I was confused about was that both of these investment bankers tried to convince college students to choose a skillset-related major rather than just Finance/Economics.
Their argument was that Investment Banking only takes like 6 months to learn (financial modeling, analysis, pitchbooks). Now, both of these investment banking analysts quit their jobs and created a company related to Tech because of the growth they saw in tech.
They feel more fulfilled in their work and are paid more since they get to control work hours and compensation as it is their company.
They highly suggested students to major in a skillset-related major such as Computer Science, Statistics, or Data Science so that if they choose to start their own company, they would be better off than just majoring in finance.
However, as a student interested in Investment Banking, I'm purely interested in finance and I'm driven by the qualitative side of business such as executive leadership of a company, cash flow, spreadsheets, total revenue, growth potential, etc. I'm really not interested in learning Python, JavaScript, or C++ for a quantitative finance role.
I really want to stay focused on finance, market news, and focus on relevant work experience during my college years rather than experiment with a computer science major and end up screwing my GPA.
My end goal is to create my own hedge fund and become a billionaire even though it sounds kind of stupid at this young age.
What is your view on this and what do you suggest I doing?
