Is Finance the Right Career for You? (Ask Yourself these Questions)

this thanksgiving, matt's jawline and early video uploads are what i'm most thankful for 🙏

please do make a video on various types of financial skills to be developed to build a career in finance

Hi, everyone i need your guidance.I have done MSc Accounting and Finance in Pakistan, but now i want to study in UK, so please guide me which master should i chose to study in Uk.

This is an awesome video. Great overall layout when it comes to making career decisions

Totally agree with the part of not asking people close to own age. Usually they won’t give an honest answer to look good

I think my older brother should’ve went to school for finance. Today all he does is invest, read about investing and send me stuff related to the topic.

Are there any remote finance jobs?

Recently qualified CMA from Institute of Cost Accountants of India and i was confused about choosing my profile, now i am sure that i am going into finance profile

I really like chemistry , I enjoy working in labs and dealing with chemical reactions and stuff but there aren’t many job opportunities for chemistry fields and I don’t think it makes a lot of money where I live , but finance does and I’m not sure if I like it or not :( I’m too afraid to go for it I don’t know if I’ll like studying it or not . I need help 🥹

I wanna be famous and smart so I wanna try finance

Helped me to make decisions

I needed to hear this, IT defintly fits me better since i want to able to have work life balance and create my own business on the side

something I needed to hear, thanks

This is great. I almost majored in Finance (and then seriously considered economics and accounting) before realising that all these subjects are purely hobbies for me and that that I would hate to have a career in any of these fields.

I'm grateful for the many people far smarter than me who have made these subjects more accessible through podcasts, blogs, books, lectures and research papers. I don't deviate from investing in broad based low-cost index ETFs (S&P500) and remain informed but don't see myself building a career in the field.

I have a year to decide what to do oof

One thing I will add is it is very tough to break into private equity and investment banking especially and many analist roles aswell. For finance your GPA matters and you want to keep it at 80% minimum or 3.5. Accounting does not have as strick requirements on grades and you can still sneak into finance if you get your CFA later on. Finance is high risk to reward degree. If at a target and have good grades major in finance. If not still consider finance, but consider accounting aswell as it gives an employment safety net and you can still get into finance if you want aslong as you get your CFA which is becoming almost manditory even if in finance.

3 things about me
1. Absolutely love finance more than anything else. My hobbies are all finance related.
2. Work life balance is crap to me for most of the time. I have worked for 4-5 months straight for 13-14 hrs.
3. My bed time reads are biographies of top bankers, PE CEOs, 2008 financial crisis books and Wiley finance books.

Will apply to Oxford, Cambridge and other top finance schools.

What finance podcast do you recommend?

I’m looking to change careers. My degree in exercise science sucks lol. I know finance and accounting are very tough careers but I do listen to Dave ramsey everyday. I’m starting to like money and want to make more money. I’m 28 years old and just afraid that it’s too late to get into finance or accounting. I don’t even know how to break into the field. I could always get a masters degree but I don’t know anything about accounting or finance. It’s interesting stuff with the little I learned

I'm seriously considering going from IT to finance; I just find learning how money works is much more interesting. My main goal is being a PFA and working for myself.

I'm a data scientist seeking to complement my existing skills in Finance. How should I pursue that path given I'm from engineering & computing background. Would an MBA in Finance from university of Montreal help or a CFA be the better option?

I was never into finance. My favourite subject is Biology(not chemistry,not medical only biology) and I always wanted to work as a biologist or researcher or psychiatrist. But from my childhood I wanted to make millions. So now I understand computer science can only make me a Millionaire fastet but I don't want to learn Programming or coding. Now my life's only goal is making millions as early as possible and retire by the age of 40.Should I study finance?

I’m like you but with the arts, thought I should do that like you said in the beginning.

What an amazing and insightful video . Could anybody please tell me what Finance Primers are ?

is Business Administration major in Financial Management good ? , Currently studying Accounting

Sub'ed because his honesty made me honest.

Thank you! This video was very helpful and explained very well. You are someone I would like to talk to for step 3…. Me as a freshmen in college

I Respect your ability to self analyse and be honest about yourself. As a rising junior at a non target school, it is certainly a grind to break in

Hi. I am eager to work in finance industry. I am searching for a suitable bachelor degree for that. Would you recommend me to do a bachelor in International business for that?

dude you're so underrated this video is so high quality I love it

Hi, I just graduated in an investment degree last year and I genuinely don't know what career path to pursue in this industry. I enjoy the stock market and learning about the mechanics and technicalities of how it works, but I enjoy interacting with people. I don't know what career path I can pursue that incorporates some degree of both 😢

I'm 18 and going into finance next year but I have doubts. I decided I wanted to get into finance because I LOVE doing stocks and the idea of investing/entrepreneurship in general excites me. My main goal is to retire early but if the worklife balance for finance is really that tedious, I probably wouldn't have enough time to focus on my own investment, or business or in real estate or other things that can help me retire early. My question is, with my situation should I go for a career that has a better worklife balance that still pays well like in tech? Or since I enjoy doing financy stuff I should just pursue finance and I can still retire early with it?

Also, great vid man it really did helped!

I think finance is great way of getting into many fields without actually getting into several fields; personally I'm interested in "business", biotech, greentech, space and tech related to AI and by investing in companies through finance you can, in a way, get involved in several fields. This, along with the earning potential, new tech like blockchain and making other people wealthier through wise investment decisions with their money, is what excites me the most about finance.

Really enjoyed the video!
Loved your points on happiness and thinking about how you use down time to help you figure out what’s the better fit for you.

This was a really helpful! Thank you 💜

I happened to go to Rotman and most of my peers are pursuing management or accounting. I am applying for a few treasury analyst roles in Toronto (currently a sophomore) and am not sure how relevant this experience would be to IB. Do you have any advise for trying to land a junior year summer internship at a bulge bracket, or is it almost as good to work at one of the big six in IB?

Do you have any advice to recent graduates (6months ago) in trying to land a role in IB. I feel everyone wants 2 years experience for an entry level job lol

Can you stand up and give us a 360 view?

Great video. At :013, (1) I would say I like finance a lot but how it fits into the bigger picture, and (2) while I don't mind the high salary, I wouldn't want to make the sacrifices or endue the BS of working in I-Banking. Looking back I would have probably liked working in the Corp Finance practices at McKinsey, BCG, or Bain. Maybe do the externship at Bain where you work in their PE Group that works very closely with Bain Capital. I like PE and VC and not HF. In the end I am trying to get into Real Estate Investing through syndication and PE Funds.

wish i have known this earlier. ths for sharing

Im Engineering student not interested in coding but intrested in finance with fear like what to do next ?..

By far the best video I’ve seen on finance in a long long time, post changing my major to finance I was always a bit unsure about whether I’ll be interested in finance in the longterm or not, this video made it very clear to me. Absolute gold content man!

Daft punk 😎😎

God, I left engineering to pursue finance just because it made me happy.

watching your videos helped me land the corp dev job of my dreams! keep up the good work

i’m 2 years in so i hope it is lmao

If I think about working more than 40 hours a week on anything that’s not directly into a business that I own, I find that to be wasted time, especially now with two kids.

1st year student here, this really helps!