Quote: (02-19-2015 11:24 PM)Easy_C Wrote:
Quote: (02-18-2015 03:58 PM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
As a student I worked at the airport - all menial work with 100% of men, then in my youth in construction - all men too. Then of course there was the military which was the most masculine endeavor by far. No women back then.
At corporations it sucked mostly, but in investment banking the floors were sometimes 100% male except for the assistants who were in another part of the office.
At risk of running off a tangent, how did you manage to pull off airport -> military -> investment banking?
I'm curious because I'm trying to do the same thing in no small part because IB is one of the few male dominated white collar jobs (which I require as a result of medical problems I have from the military)
Construction during holidays starting as a 16 year old than at 17 as well. At the airport I worked part-time, but doing the work that all other men there did on the weekends putting in 12 hour shifts. That was while studying economics/business so ages 19-22, but I had other jobs as well.
Military service was mandatory, but I put in some strange extensions, that was only for a year in total. I did not go to officer's school or anything, because that would have been 4 years and I did not feel like committing that long.
Investment banking was a job after the study - it became less male dominated later.
I did many other jobs from age 12 onward - newspaper delivery guy, computer salesman, pimp (escorts), security guard/bouncer, Hedge Fund analyst, regional manager over several EU countries, consultant etc. - not in that chronological order. As far as the best way to get into the field is doing the CFA and CAIA - those degrees cost next to nothing, but you only have to put in time and effort (and compete with Chinese applicants on the other side of the world - test difficulty varies with the international student body). CFA takes 3 years, but it's just 3 tests you do.