Any work for a recent college grad?

I would say best bet is to get a 9-5 job in some regular bank or in the financial advisory field, then start saving up to fund your personal trading bank roll

start small and build up
 
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I would say best bet is to get a 9-5 job in some regular bank or in the financial advisory field, then start saving up to fund your personal trading bank roll

start small and build up
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Just what i am doing. I am getting my CFP and have a lot of contacts with people who are CEO's of large financial firms...Plan on working at that, save up some nice capital, then trade at home.
 
If u had a chance to become a CPA or go to a trading firm, what would you choose.
I just graduated and think if i should take a CPA exam or probably go to a nice graduate school (is NYU good?) or look for a job in some trading firm.
What would you do?
 
Well to be honest, i would say trading firm.

What I am doing is getting my educational requirements for my CFP and completing my exam along with my required work experience. However, when I complete all that, instead of working in a financial firm I am going to trade at a trading firm first. I am very confident that I will be successful in a trading firm, but if for some reason I do not do well, I will just go work in a financial firm.

Don't get me wrong, i would love to work in a financial firm, but trading is in my heart, so i am going to give it my best shot. However, i believe in risk management very MUCH :)
 
I was a cpa for pwc for 3 years...if you are not interesting in accounting or don't want to become a controller down the line don't bother

since accounting doesn't interest me the only positive thing it gave me is to have pwc on my resume, but it was a lot of work for that alone!
 
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If u had a chance to become a CPA or go to a trading firm, what would you choose.
I just graduated and think if i should take a CPA exam or probably go to a nice graduate school (is NYU good?) or look for a job in some trading firm.
What would you do?
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get a job for 3-5 years then go to graduate school, it'll carry more weight once you get out of grad school
 
It is so hard to get job now, i graduated from a CUNY-Brooklyn Colege, getting to a good CPA firm from that college is very hard.Don't even know what to do.
 
Get a job as a "Squad" @ The NYSE. If you are clean cut and speak English, you may get a job as Lunch clerk for a specialist firm after all the summer help goes back to school.

Hang out @ The Broad Street entrance where all the members/clerks take smoking breaks.
 
Is this website not called "elite trader"?
If you are coming here to ask advice as to what you should do after graduating, you obviously have a strong interest in the markets. If you have parents who could help you out for a year, why not get yourself a job at a prop firm and learn first hand how to trade. If you are truly dedicated and willing to do what it takes, I believe almost anyone can be successful at trading. Although I believe most people dont have total dedication and therefore never let themselves get to that point, but regardless, give it a shot now while you are young and have few responsibilities. Yes it takes time to become consistently profitable and yes it is VERY HARD. But people do succeed at this and do incredibly well for themselves. It all depends upon you and your level of commitment. I say go for it, if this is truly what you want to do.
 
The desire to do ANYTHING well, comes from with-in and to do truly well in ANY job, it has to be a burning desire above all else - eating, sleeping, drinking, whatever.

This young man wants someone to pay him a salary, allow him to use someone elses capital and walk away scot-free if he implodes. Hes just hoping for some average job somewhere, posting here was a lottery ticket - he hoped he'd win. Sorry.

His attitude and average grades at an unknown school all reflect this.

Good luck kiddo.
 
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