I have 2 options. Start as Staff in PA or financial analyst in industry. ( media entertainment). Which would you choose? Will I be pigeon holed if I do the financial analyst position since media entertainment in socal is limited to just 2 corps?

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Financial analyst. Your experience may be in entertainment but the skills will transfer across industries.

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Exactly. The skills are transferable and you can continue your development whenever you move. It's not like you would have to "start over." (The only place you would have to do that would be in a PA firm. ) The pigeonhole question really isn't an issue--it gets way more attention that it should. A lot of that has to do w/ the recruiting/retention communication tactics of the accounting firms. You have to realize that you can and will learn as you move around in finance/acct roles. It's not like you are becoming a brain surgeon trying to leave the door open to heart surgery. It just doesn't work that way.

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