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Anyone who has ever worked a corporate job will tell you where you studied means very little.
Education doesn't guarantee ability.
Education doesn't guarantee ability.
If anything, the person who hustled a part time job & self studied shows resilience. It's incredibly difficult to be committed & disciplined.
Last thing, which will make a lot of people sad. Investment banking is filled with people who never took up a single undergrad finance course.
Engineers, scientists, soldiers (true story), entrepreneurs.
Sure, you have to get up the curve quickly but how you think is important.
Engineers, scientists, soldiers (true story), entrepreneurs.
Sure, you have to get up the curve quickly but how you think is important.
It also helps that every bit of textbook finance theory you cover in university is a tiny fracion of what you actually use in the actual world.
If you can hustle an internship. Do it! It's worth infinitely more than picking up another finance course. Can't stress this enough!
If you can hustle an internship. Do it! It's worth infinitely more than picking up another finance course. Can't stress this enough!
Wherever you end up - build a network. Nobody can do it alone. No matter how smart, driven & hungry you are.
Networks from Ivy League institution are far more valuable than the actual coursework. That's what you pay for.
If you wait until you graduate to network, it's too late.
Networks from Ivy League institution are far more valuable than the actual coursework. That's what you pay for.
If you wait until you graduate to network, it's too late.
Think of university as giving you a basic set of tools to build a house. After you acquire the bricks, cement & roof.. you can keep going until you acquire Tivoli taps & a chandelier
At some point you're going to start building. You don't need the chandelier to build a structure
At some point you're going to start building. You don't need the chandelier to build a structure
The most depressing part is that your house may not even need a fucking chandelier.
Ask people with multiple advanced degrees who moved into corporate jobs, how much of what they studied is actually relevant.
(...of course it's different if you're a professional academic)
Ask people with multiple advanced degrees who moved into corporate jobs, how much of what they studied is actually relevant.
(...of course it's different if you're a professional academic)
If you're thinking of doing an MBA with limited work experience - it's worth revisiting it.
The real value to extract is once you have already been doing something.
It's perfectly okay to be a bit older in grad school & yields more value than just "chasing a qualification".
The real value to extract is once you have already been doing something.
It's perfectly okay to be a bit older in grad school & yields more value than just "chasing a qualification".
I've seen this on the investment banking desks. Associates (with limited work experience) hired straight out of MBA programs are ALWAYS struggling against people who joined as analysts & who were promoted to associates.
It's a testament to how I portant racking up experience is.
It's a testament to how I portant racking up experience is.
Last tragic insight for the day:
Who you know holds more weight than what you know.
It's unfair, it's biased & it's fucked up but its how the world works.
You can work your ass off to score a high GPA, do everything right.. the CEOs nephew is getting onto the grad programme.
Who you know holds more weight than what you know.
It's unfair, it's biased & it's fucked up but its how the world works.
You can work your ass off to score a high GPA, do everything right.. the CEOs nephew is getting onto the grad programme.
