Hello everyone. Was curious to all who work in this field or a similar field what kind of advice to give to a college student entering final year of college. Grad school worth it? your experiences and failures? Thanks.
What does this have to do with triathlon, swimming, biking, or running?
Who works in these fields and would admit to it 
Relationship to tri is that they can afford Josh’s new pump 
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Hello everyone. Was curious to all who work in this field or a similar field what kind of advice to give to a college student entering final year of college. Grad school worth it? your experiences and failures? Thanks.
Yeah, you won’t find any grad school fail stories here in the real forum. Maybe The LR can help you.
My advice would be to figure out if you want to be in finance or investments. While they are similar, they are completely different career paths.
Hello everyone. Was curious to all who work in this field or a similar field what kind of advice to give to a college student entering final year of college. Grad school worth it? your experiences and failures? Thanks.
If you can’t find a decent offer via OCR during your senior year (you should have a solid idea of what firms recruit at your school and where you stand relative to others already), you can always try intentionally taking a fifth year (I wouldn’t recommend this) or doing an one-year Masters of Finance (or similar) to re-recruit with a better pedigree. Without more specifics on what you’re looking for (finance and investments is a ridiculous broad field) and your background, it’s hard to tell you anything else.
Also, if your OP is how you approach writing and presentation, may I suggest that you’re not entirely suited to a junior role in finance?
haha, I hear you there!
yeah this is LR material.
I work in the industry, and have done some things right and others I’d do different. Good point on figuring out if you want finance vs investment as they can be very different. My general reco is get into the working world for a year or two and then consider grad school if necessary and if you can go to a great school. If you are going the investment route then you might want to look at the CFA (again, if necessary only).
+1 to this and I would add look at both CFA and CFP. Good luck.
Also, if your OP is how you approach writing and presentation, may I suggest that you’re not entirely suited to a junior role in finance?
Really, I guess you haven’t seen the bloomberg chats of traders and salespersons?
Also, if your OP is how you approach writing and presentation, may I suggest that you’re not entirely suited to a junior role in finance?
This is a giveaway that you may be an investment banker. Its hard to accept that nobody else shares your utmost respect for punctuation, formatted spreadsheets, and bound materials. Heaven forbid a college kid posting on an internet forum uses some liberties in his text without being scrutinized, plus you used the term “pedigree”. to the OP, enjoy the last year of undergrad.
Also, if your OP is how you approach writing and presentation, may I suggest that you’re not entirely suited to a junior role in finance?
Really, I guess you haven’t seen the bloomberg chats of traders and salespersons?
Ha! No kidding. I was a trader for a couple of years. Had to force myself to stop using complete sentences and any sort of punctuation. You do get to be creative with the profanity, though.
To the OP: my advice is to avoid both and do something that is actually socially useful and enjoyable.
Former Invest Banker … top grad school … JP Morgan … Wall Street … etc.
If I could live my life all over again. I would be a third grade school teacher.
Enough said.
Good luck.
Who works in these fields and would admit to it
I’m tired of ppl making finance guys out to be the villain. Learn to take responsibility for the policy of the government elected by yourselves. Not everyone with a job is entitled to a house with a white picket fence. You gotta earn it. The politicians who sell you that dream is lying to you and just want your vote to put them in office.
Hello everyone. Was curious to all who work in this field or a similar field what kind of advice to give to a college student entering final year of college. Grad school worth it? your experiences and failures? Thanks.
It sounds like you are looking to go into finance, in which case don’t go straight to Grad school. Do a couple of years in finance and see if it’s for you before you drop the dough on a degree that you don’t want. Plenty of my friends THOUGHT they wanted a life in finance but are all out by year two. Put in three years or a little longer and learn what the industry looks like. After then if you still want to work in fiannce, then make an informed decision about what advanced degree, if any, will help you.
Slowtwitch is definitely the wrong forum to ask this question. If triathlon is more important to you than finance, then you won’t last long in finance.
I had an interview with a high-frequency trading firm. One perk they offered is catered lunch. They want you at your desk from 6AM - 8PM. This is the west coast (LA), so the market starts for them at 6AM.
You will be very well compensated for sure, but you will have to give up a lot of personal time as well.
Two career paths, and you gotta decide early. Do you want to own and manage clients, or do you want to be an analyst? Both can be done at a very high level with good pay.
Two different personality types. Whichever one you want, get the relevant degree and training (MBA, Econ, CFP, CFA). Then focus on your chosen path.
Me…I kept getting steered to clients and sales since I’m good at that. But I don’t like it. I finally just started my own RIA so I could do what I wanted.
That’s funny. I’m a 4th grade teacher looking to go back to school for a nonrelated field because pay is so poor. Obviously I didn’t become a teacher for the income, but for as much work as I put in, it’s a joke.
**It sounds like you are looking to go into finance, in which case don’t go straight to Grad school. Do a couple of years in finance and see if it’s for you before you drop the dough on a degree that you don’t want. Plenty of my friends THOUGHT they wanted a life in finance but are all out by year two. Put in three years or a little longer and learn what the industry looks like. After then if you still want to work in fiannce, then make an informed decision about what advanced degree, if any, will help you. **
EXCELLENT advise!!! I went straight from college into banking because I thought it was what I would enjoy. Did very well, but after the first year, I hated every minute of it. If you can get into the industry and spend a few years working prior to getting an advanced degree, that is the smartest route.
My advice, try and find a job at one of those companies that’s too big to fail.
That’s funny. I’m a 4th grade teacher looking to go back to school for a nonrelated field because pay is so poor. Obviously I didn’t become a teacher for the income, but for as much work as I put in, it’s a joke.
I do get ya. My comments were off the cuff remarks but in terms of psychic income and all that jazz, you are better off than many miserable bankers in the Street.
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