about momentum and 3rd party verifications of your competance and
worth.
Nobody in that job you're looking at knows or cares if you missed that
big promotion at your last job - they only see trends: ever bigger
projects, ever bigger jobs, ever bigger degrees, ever bigger
certifications, whatever.
It seems like no matter what you do the key is to move frequently and
move up, if in title only. As long as you do that, you'll be able to
open doors to the jobs you really want - that one you really enjoy.
For example I know a guy who has a PHD in chemistry, but left chem to
work as a "competitor spy" for a major automotive company. His job is
to go to every auto show (Paris, Geneva, etc.) and write a report
about where his company is missing the trend.
His trick was he took ever larger degrees and ever larger positions in
any capacity until he could work with his real passion, cars. He's
not going to get rich but who cares? He kinda lives like a
millionaire because he travels the world and test drives the world's
best cars. (and sometimes crappiest too :)
So, for example, you could take an unpaid intership at a hedge fund
working on the Domestic Convertible Bond Arbitrage Desk. Nobody will
know that all you did was fill in a spreadsheet with the P&Ls on
positions.
You worked on the convertible bond arbitrage desk! That sounds cool!
----- Original Message -----
From: Won Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:10:56 -0400
Subject: Re: Want to Work For Google?
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Some very good points. Out of college I was offered an interview with
CapGemini. I politely declined because my impression while researching the
big consulting companies was that it was a meat grinder. They try to
recruit as many of the "best and the brightest" that they can get (and fill
in the rest with people like me). Place new recruits into the meat grinder
and anyone left standing after the first 3 years gets to move on. I might
have, and most likely have been, a bit too quick with my evaluation but the
lure of the 90s internet boom did cloud my judgement.
PS I doubt that we run in the same circles. My friends are all relatively
new to the financial sector. We are all low level employees and we work
too many hours to really go out and socialize.________________________________
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