by "Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
Published 05/26/2017 at 11:05
by "Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
Published 05/26/2017 at 11:05
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Definitely a good thing I gave myself a few months to study. Its been a long time since I have had to think in this kind of way...
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
05/26/2017 at 11:08, STARS: 0
IIRC, it
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s not too bad. I took it in 2000 right after they introduced the computer adaptive testing. Several years later I took Level 1 of the CFA (failed after 3 hours/day studying for 9 months) and was like F*CK THIS and changed career paths.
"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
05/26/2017 at 11:14, STARS: 0
Yeah, I doubled in finance and MIS and the finance side pushed hard for people for people to take the CFA. You would hear people talk about it like “Yeah, it took a few years of intensive studying for tests that get progressively harder, but it was great!” Sure...
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
05/26/2017 at 11:28, STARS: 0
I have a younger buddy (about 29-30) who’s taking Level 3 next month. No kids, all his free time is woodworking, drinking Scotch, and studying for the CFA. Honestly, I got burned out on it because it was about the same time as the financial meltdown, so suddenly anyone in finance/derivatives was “the bad guy” which didn’t bode well for job prospects. At the same time, I started getting into MIS and stuck with it. My advice would be to make sure you learn the “business side” and not just pure MIS/coding/reporting. That’s what makes it harder to outsource your job. I work with a lot of offshore resources in our company and they’re amazing — much better than I am — but they don’t know the business nearly as well.
"Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis" (Dwhite95)
05/26/2017 at 11:33, STARS: 0
I’m actually starting up a job at big 4 firm doing large scale implementations soon. I’m avoiding coding as much as possible. Hoping to get into analytics or BA role, get them to pay for my MBA (if I get a good score) and then try to jump to strategy.
Thats the dream at least.
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
05/26/2017 at 11:45, STARS: 0
Nice...I’m in banking analytics (client side) and it’s wildly different between small firms and big ones. The big ones basically require that you know some SQL/Access at least, while the smaller ones make you do a lot more diverse stuff with less complex tools. At least that’s been my experience. The key to success is usually just being able to think critically, cause & effect, finding new and relevant metrics and stats, things like that. I’ve worked with auditors at a firm that sounds kind of like Krack Pipe Morris Garages for many years, it’s a great career path but they seem to intentionally burn out their younger people. Make sure you find a good boss if you can!