Comments on: Mid-career switch to banking and finance? http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/ All about Income, Jobs, Career, and Investment in Singapore Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:59:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: jo http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10851 jo Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:46:09 +0000 http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10851 38yr old Research Analyst newbie? zero experience? can u handle reporting to younger boss with 10yr experience? or dropping your ego to s**k it up to them? why would they employ someone who would be difficult to handle? get real... 38yr old Research Analyst newbie? zero experience?

can u handle reporting to younger boss with 10yr experience? or dropping your ego to s**k it up to them?

why would they employ someone who would be difficult to handle?

get real…

]]> By: Bucktooth http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10834 Bucktooth Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:16:49 +0000 http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10834 Do bank analysts interview CEO like press journalists? Don't they just look at the annual reports and the markets? Weird person... analysts are only answerable to their employer. I don't think they interview any CEOs as much as their CEO relies on them when making decisions. Do bank analysts interview CEO like press journalists? Don’t they just look at the annual reports and the markets? Weird person…

analysts are only answerable to their employer. I don’t think they interview any CEOs as much as their CEO relies on them when making decisions.

]]> By: Wharton http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10822 Wharton Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:00:34 +0000 http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10822 Its so amusing to read how deluded some people are. No one who graduated from Harvard undergraduate has any problems spelling mortgage. Many who live with mom live in huge houses in district 9 and 10. A question I do have for this old dog is if he's aware he just got majorly screwed. There's no way a mid career switch at 38 to research analyst back office job in banking can make up for the loss of income he incurs from the switch, compared to sticking to IT down the road. LOL. A lot of ignorant people out there think everyone works in a bank earns traders' pay cheques and every bank employee including the ops people and tellers are called bankers. Its so amusing to read how deluded some people are. No one who graduated from Harvard undergraduate has any problems spelling mortgage. Many who live with mom live in huge houses in district 9 and 10.

A question I do have for this old dog is if he’s aware he just got majorly screwed. There’s no way a mid career switch at 38 to research analyst back office job in banking can make up for the loss of income he incurs from the switch, compared to sticking to IT down the road. LOL.

A lot of ignorant people out there think everyone works in a bank earns traders’ pay cheques and every bank employee including the ops people and tellers are called bankers.

]]> By: pimply kid http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10785 pimply kid Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:44:22 +0000 http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10785 Investment banks will pick the pimple faced kid. It's just too hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Moreover, real life experience really doesn't matter. It's all about presentation, common sense and taking risks (sometimes BIG risks). No need to argue, just update us on your career progression in 3 years' time. Investment banks will pick the pimple faced kid. It’s just too hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Moreover, real life experience really doesn’t matter. It’s all about presentation, common sense and taking risks (sometimes BIG risks).

No need to argue, just update us on your career progression in 3 years’ time.

]]> By: StoneTemplePilot http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10783 StoneTemplePilot Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:13:51 +0000 http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-10783 Do not listen to these negative impassionate people. Nothing is impossible, plan your work and work your plan and do not get distracted. Truth be told I just switched from IT to Research Analyst a little over my 38th birthday. Took a HUGE pay cut but its part of the game. Back flips ehh?!! The young pretenders might be able to do that, but try sending a pimply faced 23 yr old with a Harvard degree who lives with his mom and unable to spell mortgage to interview a CEO of a company....I wonder who the CEO will treat more seriously? An old pro with teenage kids to handle and half way through his 2nd mortgage with years of real life business experience under his belt or this pimple faced kid? Do not listen to these negative impassionate people. Nothing is impossible, plan your work and work your plan and do not get distracted. Truth be told I just switched from IT to Research Analyst a little over my 38th birthday. Took a HUGE pay cut but its part of the game.

Back flips ehh?!! The young pretenders might be able to do that, but try sending a pimply faced 23 yr old with a Harvard degree who lives with his mom and unable to spell mortgage to interview a CEO of a company….I wonder who the CEO will treat more seriously? An old pro with teenage kids to handle and half way through his 2nd mortgage with years of real life business experience under his belt or this pimple faced kid?

]]> By: mi http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-666 mi Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:29:54 +0000 http://www.salary.sg/2007/mid-career-switch-to-banking-and-finance/#comment-666 is the finance industry really that lucrative now? is the finance industry really that lucrative now?

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