Digital nomad/remote work + travelling after IB
Recently we are all seeing the trend of moving towards remote work, which surely makes travelling and visiting places and working at the same time much more feasible. Many of you probably have friends who, similar to mine, are somewhere abroad with their laptop and just work through their X hours a day and then enjoy their time sightseeing, chilling on a beach or doing whatever else in some cool place. I personally know people working like that in various sectors i.e. IT, sales, analytics. I am a first-year IB analyst and I have to say that seeing such things makes me wonder how one can use their IB/finance experience to move towards that kind of role. Where could you exit straight from IB? Would be great to work in IB for 2/3 years and then perhaps try to do smth like that.
I am curious whether some of your are thinking of going on a job that would allow you to work in a similar way, maybe some of you are doing that already and enjoying their life travelling the world? If so, what are you doing/thinking of? How did you start and how did your finance background help you with that? Or maybe you just started your own business without any connection to finance?
Really interested to see what WSO people think about that.
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There are plenty of corporate finance jobs that are fully remote. I'd look for things that are closer to 40-50hrs/week - FP&A, investor relations, asset management, corp strategy, generic "financial analyst", commercial banking. Those will be a pay cut from banking, but still 6 figures and if you live in a LCOL area you can do pretty well. Look into both startups and big companies that will let you be remote.. pros and cons to both
Just check with the company that your VPN works outside of the country, some let you work from anywhere and some you can't even get online from Mexico or Canada.
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Interested in a similar lifestyle, but haven’t been able to land a single startup/tech financial analyst interview while having no problem getting buyside interviews.
Every posting I see online is like “3-5 years of FP&A experience” for an analyst role which is quite ridiculous. Think the market’s just rough right now for tech companies, big and small
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