Career ideas

CEO10K-DAY · June 28, 2019, 8:32pm

Sweep_the_Leg:

This thread is brutal. Ohai and BS are spit roasting you.

You do work in finance. Your day-to-day may not be as exciting as you want but you work right next to guys that influence a sh i t ton of assets. You have great resources right where you are. Want to cover FI? Get cozy with NB. He was just telling me his biggest concern is finding and retaining good talent.

As for trading, are you thinking about a role as a traditional trader or FinTech trading? The former is way hard to break into. The latter…well, you have a pretty good idea of that marketplace. You could go to any smaller tech company like Oranj, Black Diamond, or Orion and get a fresh start. Those guys are all tech geeks. Relative to people I’m used to calling on, they don’t know anything about finance. Not sure if you have any coding skills, but even if you don’t, all these new “technology solution providers” need people that actually know something about investments. And they’re all hiring. The only downside is you’ll probably wind up back at your current employer as they continue to buy every tech firm out there.

Thanks for stepping in, Dad - lol. I am totally fine with getting ethered over the internet. Like, in all honesty I totally understand I’m a dumbass 27 yr/old, but I do look up to those folks (in some regards), despite them not knowing the nature of my work. I am just a stranger over the internet in all honesty. So, like, I take it with a grain of salt, but I also don’t.

Whattya figure that swan is one of those money managers that takes me out to lunch to help sell their product anyways? (Ok, that’s arrogant - I’m just joking).

I’m probably unqualified since I don’t have a masters and all I am is a lousy stinking L3 CFA candidate.