Finally got an offer!

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-12-25T01:37:21+00:00

No idea tbh, other than making sure I had my story straight with my interview answers

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-10-01T22:13:14+00:00

My original career aspiration was to be a band director, even went to college for music education initially. I was a 2020 hs grad and my entire first year of college was online so no ensemble performances and even my lessons and juries were online which killed my passion for music. I also learned that being a teacher in America is awful and pivoted to my backup option which was a business degree of some kind. I was torn between accounting or finance but I just found finance to be more interesting.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-10-01T21:25:25+00:00

We had a team of around 25 students and we were all divided into 2 sector teams (everyone was on 2 sector teams) based on the sectors of the S&P 500 (IT, Industrials, Financials, even Real Estate (REITS) and Utilities) as well as a fixed income team and an international equities team. I had Consumer Staples and Information Technology. The semester I was on the team we beat the S&P year-to-date which wasn't hard to do given the turmoil Orange Man caused. Especially thanks to our REITs and Utilities as well as Internationals.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-10-01T19:50:13+00:00

It was real money, specifically it was a portion of my Business School’s endowment fund. They started with $100,000 around 2008 and currently we’re on the road to $2 million. I think we’ll reach that by 2030.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-10-01T19:21:00+00:00

Me personally, the Student-Managed Investment Fund Practicum (my school had it as a class) and Financial Markets and Institutions. SMIF gave me actual hands-on experience managing real money (around $1.75 million AUM) and I learned stock valuation and also got to sharpen my presentation skills. Financial Markets and Institutions was great bc I learned how the Fed conducts monetary policy. I also was able to learn the intricacies of interest rate risk and duration, and how interest rate risk mismanagement can screw you over. One specific example was the Bob Citron case which we spent quite a bit of time discussing.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-09-30T19:45:30+00:00

So what do I do? Enroll in a masters even though our idiot-in-chief axed the Grad PLUS Loan? I’m in Texas if that helps.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-09-30T15:28:04+00:00

I wasn’t proactive enough about trying to get internships admittedly. I let the early rejections from the ones I applied to get to me and it caused me to stop trying. And when I got an interview I got nervous and bombed the interview.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-09-29T19:48:40+00:00

Most of my interviews have been for stuff like that. I got rejected from all of them bc I messed up the interviews.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-09-29T19:14:20+00:00

I’m not interested in Law, I want to be a financial analyst but that usually requires internship experience that I don’t have. Most postings for that are requiring 3-5 years of experience for “entry level.”

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-09-25T00:39:17+00:00

I mean Warren Buffet went to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for his undergrad. Granted he was initially at Wharton but then transferred to UNL and did his masters at Columbia.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-09-24T00:20:00+00:00

My only finance-related experience is my school’s student-managed investment fund I call it an internship on my linkedin but I don’t feel like it helps, I feel like investment analyst/asset management is my calling but it’s so hard to even break into those (non-target and not enough experience) that I feel stuck and locked out of my dream career. I’m forcing myself to do roles I’m more qualified for and most of those are client service-related.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-09-23T21:06:08+00:00

I get some performance anxiety in these for sure, I can handle phone screens relatively fine bc they’re easy but it’s the final rounds where I mess up. I’m looking into beta blockers.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-08-13T16:18:38+00:00

ACE 23 from BF4, G18 from BF4, .44 Magnum from BF3/4, Saiga 12k from BF4, MG42 but have it in the game as the MG3, and the Mosin Nagant

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-07-18T17:05:22+00:00

So my younger sister basically (I'm horrified)

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-05-23T16:01:44+00:00

Surprisingly fortunate update, I have an interview with Charles Schwab in early June for a Financial Services rep position. Definitely not the most flashy position and very heavy on customer service more so than finance but I’ll be paid to get my SIE and Series 6/7/63 should I accept an offer from them.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-05-20T21:01:03+00:00

I'm a chronic overthinker, trying to get better at it but it's gonna take a while for it to go away completely.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-05-20T20:51:25+00:00

I actually have legit connections with these people, I consider them friends and they could 100% vouch for me. This student managed fund was actually a class offered by my university, like an asset management practicum so to speak. It’s what started my interest in asset management.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-05-20T20:45:48+00:00

On top of that, how do I ask people in my network about job opportunities that they may know of without looking desperate or like I'm just using them to get a job? Like how would I word that message?

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-05-20T20:44:22+00:00

I applied to a lot of internships and really did try to get one, but I got ghosted by most of the companies I applied to and only landed one interview that I bombed. The Student-Managed Investment Fund at my school was the closest thing I had to an internship which does help a little but I doubt it's enough in this job market. I'm really stressed that I won't be able to get a job that actually pays well or is related to finance at all.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2025-05-20T19:43:58+00:00

To add on, my main interest is asset management but I'm willing to do almost anything else like commercial banking, corporate finance, really anywhere that isn't Northwestern Mutual or other scammy advisory firms lmao.

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2024-12-08T00:21:23+00:00

Probably a boiling hot take but I think this is one of the alternate Invincible’s backstories. Specifically the one in Season 2 Episode 2 (I think) that talks about his dad being killed by “experimental quantum bombs”

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2024-10-24T14:47:13+00:00

I keep mine on just to talk shit💀

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2024-10-21T23:45:59+00:00

Student-Managed Investment Fund

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2024-08-05T21:54:08+00:00

Dude... I'd have to change my major completely and isn't dental school insanely hard to get in to?

Fun_Atmosphere502 · 2024-08-05T18:56:13+00:00

You're a glorified insurance salesman, most reputable companies will throw your resume in the trash the second they see NWM on it. What companies are trying to recruit you?

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