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Up::2jasdev said:I read a piece on efinancialcareers earlier today on how banking jobs will now require Python at a minimum; I guess I know what I will be doing after I get my charter 😛
Careful with overdisplaying technical knowledge though. I invested a shitton of time learning SAS with the idea of furthering my career during the early days. A lot of more senior people too lazy to do technical shit kept making me do stuff for them by stroking my ego and promising good reviews etc.
The opposite happened, they always turned around and screwed me in performance reviews saying I was not well rounded enough. Later I found out that SAS worker bees are rare and mid-management try and keep them from being promoted to management so that they can keep on using them.
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Up::1itsalwayslupus said:Also, the hours that CFA are taking from my life may not be otherwise be allocated to job hunting, but rather socialization and leisure. So it’s more of giving up leisure to pursue a qualification, which makes sense to me at least at this stage of my life and career.
This 100%. A lot of the naysaying feedback o get is some version or other of ‘you could be doing something more exciting / useful’. To which the answer is ‘would I have the self discipline to replicate the dedication I’m giving the CFA program?’ I’m unlikely to be giving up my social life to learn piano or French.
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good to hear some honest thoughts there, as i’m starting to question myself as well. level 2 is a bitch.
i think it depends whether you want to stay in finance, but who knows what the future would bring and by the time i actually obtain a charterholdership i may have switched industries for example, which would make the whole exercise pointless
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I read a piece on efinancialcareers earlier today on how banking jobs will now require Python at a minimum; I guess I know what I will be doing after I get my charter 😛
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