Are there careers within finance with these characteristics?

GS Ops @ Salt Lake

Strategy at a large company.

Equities in Dallas

Playing accordion in the subway. Massive career trajectory

“Giving creative ideas and making the impossible happen”... I’ve only ever seen language like that in poorly written job postings. Are you playing some sort of long con and about to post something about how “you’ve got the job for me”?

wut

No Real Estate aspect, but depending on the firm checkout Corporate Development and/or Corporate Strategy.

Present to board members and upper management often, some analytics, solid work life, great opportunity for growth.

WISETHINKER:

an okay work life balance

Boy, you are in the wrong industry. Get off WSO.

Alternatively: PWM, but you'll unfortunately have to strike "creative ideas" off your list.

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I'll give a pitch for VC and you can judge for yourself if it fits. Big disclaimer, VC's vary widely and your experience at one firm can be drastically different from another...

1. Giving creative ideas: I really enjoy supporting portfolio companies and if I know one of our CEOs is struggling with a certain part of the business (marketing, data acquisition, etc.) I like to brainstorm ideas, suggestions, and introductions I can make to help them solve the problem.
2. Making the impossible happen: eh...I guess? Finding and working with a unicorn is hard enough to plop into this category
3. Analytical: VC can be quite analytical depending on your focus and how the partners like to evaluate investments. What I like about the analytics of VC is that a lot of art and science is required to make sense of the limited/anecdotal information you have.
4. Hands-on/travel/talking with people: Oh yeah, you're going to talk...a lot. Tons of meetings, a few conferences here and there, visiting HQ of startups, talking with entrepreneurs, etc. It's a people business and it can get pretty personal.
5. Teaching people/presenting: You'll have to learn a lot about a wide range of topics and will likely have to explain complex things in simple ways for people in your network, partners who aren't in the know about an idea you have, entrepreneurs who aren't familiar with something you're advising them, etc.
6. Real estate: Don't know. Won't go there.
7. Work-life balance/growth: There are routine things and obligations as a VC associate but I'd argue your experience is largely what you make of it. Your growth will largely be a function of the effort you put in and the network you develop. While I do work more now in VC than back in ER, I see my work-life balance as better because there are more parts of the job I like and my job generates interesting conversations with friends.

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