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Financial tech consulting to keep the doors open to all of them.
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Me too
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Tech and finance both offer opportunities to build significant wealth either in established companies or with new ventures. I think bulge bracket IBs are going to be - and already have been - disrupted by tech and regulations. So the entry gates for finance seem to be getting more narrow.
Consulting is the least likely to give you an eight figure pile at the end of the career. Fewer and fewer slots at the top and less stability once you get there. Also, you’ve got to have a very broad range a skills to make it to a partner role in consulting. There’s less of a need to have great EQ, IQ, and domain knowledge in finance or tech. A good trader with a shitty personality can bank. A socially awkward engineer can bank. A low EQ consultant probably tops out at manager, maybe SM.
Still, making tens of millions of dollars is very rare. Choosing a career to maximize that outcome is kind of a bad bet regardless.
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All I’m saying is making partner at a consulting firm requires the broadest range of skills but offers the lowest probability of reaching mid-tens of millions of net wealth. It’s very hard to do in any field, but I think consulting offers the lowest risk-reward function. At least it has over the last 20-30 years.
Tehc
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In what roles?
Referring to jobs rather than the industry per se. The thing with Tech is you need to work twice as hard to keep your skills current. That takes time, effort and money. I don't see core finance and consulting skills changing *that* much over time.
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Finance.
@FT1 to pay the bills I think - he takes a lot of pride in his work and it’s kind of his identity. He didn’t grow up with much money and his parents constantly fought over it so he takes a lot of pride in being able to provide well for his fam. That said, he is sooo burnt out and not fun to be around and he needs to retire ASAP
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Really depends on your priorities. If it’s money, you’ll want finance
Whichever one you like the most.
A starting point would be doing your research on the type of roles you can get in each industry. All of them offer a pretty wide variety of different positions, companies, etc. so it’s important to understand what opportunities are available.
Assuming you are in consulting right now, try to pursue projects in FS and/or tech to get some exposure to the companies and culture.
Then, you have to decide your priorities. Pay, WLB, interesting work, etc — you just have to decide what you care about most.
Really depends (spoken like the consultant I am). Enjoying the industry you are in is important in the long run. I love financial services and have since college. The products and markets fascinated me early on. The evolving marketplace, technology and pace of changes have kept me interested. We see come convergence in tech and Finance now which is interesting too. Amazon, Microsoft etc can’t hire financial services people fast enough. As for consulting, I find that as a consultant I have more exposure across a firm and access to the senior most people and their thinking and strategy and plans for the future than I would working in that company. One important criteria is also to look at whether you would be in a “front office” role. If your considering leaving consulting are you leaving being a client service, revenue generating role. Think twice about what that means before making that move.
If you’re looking for a new job there are several key criteria to consider. Some are obvious like comp/benefits, your potential boss and team, company reputation , values etc. One important criteria but sometimes overlooked by people earlier in their career is whether your new job would be revenue generating or part of a cost center. You may need to take that step at times ( to switch industries, to step towards something else, to allow you flexibility etc) but know and recognize this and work towards being in the front office of whatever sector you are in.
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Consulting for fin tech of course