Just finished college, what should my career be in?

TrippleOG said:
Bachelors means nothing these days. Think about all the other people in your shoes just graduated with no jobs in their field. They are working retail or some miserable crap not related to their field.
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I just graduated in May and had a couple months of dead time, it was pretty frustrating but I should be doing Grad school soon.
 
IT. Or just tech, in general. Get into the marketing side if you can stand PM work. Events and what have you.

You will Travel a lot, make decent to good money, and it's pretty lax in regards to having to live by societal norms.
 
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I hear man-whoring is lucrative. That's what I heard though. I don't know from experience.

Comfortable knee pads are a life saver though, from what I heard.
 
Computer networking and security. Failing that, barista.
 
Tamriel Terror said:
Well fellas, after 4 years I finally finished my strategic management summer class yesterday where i got a 96% final grade at UNC-Charlotte.

Im officially done with college and now I wait until graduation to receive my Bachelors in Finance with a concentration in risk management and insurance and a minor in history.

I'm happy considering I've went through a lot over the past few years and was still able to finish on a strong note, but now Im beginning to stress about my career options.

I want to find a career not a job that i can somewhat enjoy and that doesn't consume my life, any recommendations for a finance major that doesn't want some analyst or sales type job?

Also going to celebrate by playing the Witcher III tonight and banging my gf
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Whatever you do, please don't act like some entitled, fresh-out-of-college, zero-workforce-experience schmuck who believes he should be CEO within a year!
 
Let's see, a BA in Finance, by my calculations you should be CEO of a Fortune 500 company within a year. Make sure you let everyone at your new job know that.
 
Soda Popinsky said:
I hear man-whoring is lucrative. That's what I heard though. I don't know from experience.

Comfortable knee pads are a life saver though, from what I heard.
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Can't deny the bank you'd be pulling in

rate at $100/h on a 8h a day, and in a year you'd be raking in $292,000.
 
Learn a skilled trade, join a union, work 20 years, retire.


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Move to New York, work stupid long hours for mediocre pay, live in squalor for a few years, get promoted twice and transfer to the Fairfield office. Buy a nice house for 2x your annual income, marry a public school teacher, honeymoon in Belize, get a golden retriever, have a girl and a boy, send them off to UConn (boy) and Skidmore (girl), buy a sports car (American) and retire comfortably.
 
It's less important what your occupation is than it is where you live. I recommend Carmel, IN. Oh yeah or Fishers, IN.
 
Become a broker of some kind. Seek out a top dog in your area and convince him to mentor you.
 
Tamriel Terror said:
Well fellas, after 4 years I finally finished my strategic management summer class yesterday where i got a 96% final grade at UNC-Charlotte.

Im officially done with college and now I wait until graduation to receive my Bachelors in Finance with a concentration in risk management and insurance and a minor in history.

I'm happy considering I've went through a lot over the past few years and was still able to finish on a strong note, but now Im beginning to stress about my career options.

I want to find a career not a job that i can somewhat enjoy and that doesn't consume my life, any recommendations for a finance major that doesn't want some analyst or sales type job?

Also going to celebrate by playing the Witcher III tonight and banging my gf
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You won't make great money in finance unless you are willing to work a lot. And yeah high paid I-bankers, PE, and HF guys it does consume a good chunk of their life.

In fact most jobs which pay a lot will require hardwork to get there and require a lot of hours.

You want to break 250k in income a year and not have a job consume your time? Well you better become a really hot and popular pornstar or stripper. Hell you went to a non-target so even breaking 100k anytime soon is quite difficult.

Do you plan on an MBA in the future? And if so how were your grades and what were you involved in?

What do you like about finance?

Talk to me I will understand.
 
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