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Old 05-28-2008, 12:03 AM   #5
Claeren
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I have a question about the CFA exams. Would they be worth looking into if you thought that maybe you might want to try out a career in that direction? I'm an engineer now, and totally bored with it, but investment banking interests me a tonne. But I guess my question is, how possible is it for a guy to get hired on at a firm with no experience, and just holding a certificate from this program? Do I need some kind of university degree to go with it?
I am hardly an expert but if you have an engineering degree but don't want to be an engineer, getting an MBA might be the better option? Or a Law Degree for that matter?


I think at that point you would have a very unique skill set and have a lot of options open to you that take advantage of your general engineering industry knowledge without you having to be an actual engineer.

Probably make a lot more sense in terms of opportunity-cost of going back to school?



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