Career exploration question. Background: I’ve been a long-time strategist in the ad/marketing sector, which focused on research, compelling narrative work (“storyselling”), etc. I also have a SaaS startup. I wrote a strategic investment/acquisition thesis for it, shared it with Bay Area entrepreneurs who were highly complementary and said I essentially did the job of an investment banker. I’ve also been supporting my business broker with research and strategic rationales. Cont’d in comments…

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Cont’d… All that said, I’m terrible at math. I’ve never worked in this sector but I’ve been really enjoying it, and apparently I’m good at it (minus the math part). My question: are there research/strategy/narrative roles that don’t require math, and can support the more finance types? Thanks for sharing any thoughts!

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