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Engineering – dead end career

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Read an interesting thread in Sammyboy in delphiforums titled “Engineering: A dead end career in SG”. Here are some interesting quotes from that thread: “Most successful second-career Engineers I know switched line during their 2-3 year of work. Some became Bankers, some went into Sales, some went into IT… The world needs Engineers more than [...]


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Engineers – considering CFA or Financial Engineering?

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

I know of many engineers who regretted not getting the right career advice when they were in school. (What’s “right” is subjective, of course.) Envious of the high income that an investment banker can fetch, some of these engineers decided to take up courses or certifications that hopefully will give them a chance to enter [...]


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Take CFA for career switch?

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

There’s an interesting letter in the career adviser column of today’s Sunday Times. Basically, the letter writer in his 20s is asking if it is worthwhile taking the chartered financial analyst (CFA) exams. He is considering switching from his engineering career to a finance/investment one. The adviser’s answer is that all things equal, passing the [...]

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