Is Finance the Right Career for You? (Ask Yourself these Questions)

Finance is a very lucrative and rewarding career path, but it's not for everyone. You need to work extremely hard in school to be a top candidate and most finance firms have a very intense culture, where you'll easily be working over 60 hours per week. In this video, we'll go over some questions you can ask yourself to determine whether finance is the right long-term career path for you.

0:00 - Types of People that Go into Finance
0:52 - Step 1: Do You Like Finance Itself?
3:50 - Step 2: Decide What Work / Life Balance You Want
5:13 - Step 3: Find Mentors With Similar Values as You

Peak Frameworks is a business career prep service started by Matt Ting and Patrick Fong, who have each spent several years working in investment banking and private equity in New York and Silicon Valley. Matt and Patrick met at Evercore, a top tier investment bank, and over the years have tutored and coached dozens of candidates to land their dream business job.

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[JPav-nghd]

this thanksgiving, matt's jawline and early video uploads are what i'm most thankful for 🙏

[christianorsa]

I think finance is great way of getting into many fields without actually getting into several fields; personally I'm interested in "business", biotech, greentech, space and tech related to AI and by investing in companies through finance you can, in a way, get involved in several fields. This, along with the earning potential, new tech like blockchain and making other people wealthier through wise investment decisions with their money, is what excites me the most about finance.

[fiecqjv]

Awesome stuff, it is really a good idea to put up things in place while one still has the time and opportunity to, as a person seeking financial breakthrough or being mindful of the reality of the world and its challenges while still in service or as a retiry one should consider the basics that can make a meaningful living tomorrow. As the case maybe things and ideas like these may not come up often that's why it is very much benefiting one consider it very important and grab it without hesitation, many senior citizens have made mistakes regarding this and at some point did not really take the steps to invest appropriately and today they are paying bitterly for it, the little one can actually invest today will definitely speak volumes when the time comes because it will never be lost.

[armandzottola]

Very well presented. My grandson is finishing his first year in college Finance…I hope he has a full and happy life. I don’t value a one-dimensional life. A good job is for all the higher values…no time for living is empty.

[berkserk]

dude you're so underrated this video is so high quality I love it

[benjaminburstein]

I Respect your ability to self analyse and be honest about yourself. As a rising junior at a non target school, it is certainly a grind to break in

[BrownSugar_Alex]

Really enjoyed the video!
Loved your points on happiness and thinking about how you use down time to help you figure out what’s the better fit for you.

[FA-dzls]

Totally agree with the part of not asking people close to own age. Usually they won’t give an honest answer to look good

[yahyamisbah]

in 7.40 minute u became one of my fav youtubers!

[coolfool]

This is an awesome video. Great overall layout when it comes to making career decisions

[quickcaster]

watching your videos helped me land the corp dev job of my dreams! keep up the good work

[saralyn]

This was a really helpful! Thank you 💜

[yashvardhanshukla]

By far the best video I’ve seen on finance in a long long time, post changing my major to finance I was always a bit unsure about whether I’ll be interested in finance in the longterm or not, this video made it very clear to me. Absolute gold content man!

[saranyanatarajan]

please do make a video on various types of financial skills to be developed to build a career in finance

[stillakzo]

3 things about me
1. Absolutely love finance more than anything else. My hobbies are all finance related.
2. Work life balance is crap to me for most of the time. I have worked for 4-5 months straight for 13-14 hrs.
3. My bed time reads are biographies of top bankers, PE CEOs, 2008 financial crisis books and Wiley finance books.

Will apply to Oxford, Cambridge and other top finance schools.

[wannabedal-adx]

Great video. At :013, (1) I would say I like finance a lot but how it fits into the bigger picture, and (2) while I don't mind the high salary, I wouldn't want to make the sacrifices or endue the BS of working in I-Banking. Looking back I would have probably liked working in the Corp Finance practices at McKinsey, BCG, or Bain. Maybe do the externship at Bain where you work in their PE Group that works very closely with Bain Capital. I like PE and VC and not HF. In the end I am trying to get into Real Estate Investing through syndication and PE Funds.

[exestudios]

1st year student here, this really helps!

[BigGhanaChannel]

I’m looking to change careers. My degree in exercise science sucks lol. I know finance and accounting are very tough careers but I do listen to Dave ramsey everyday. I’m starting to like money and want to make more money. I’m 28 years old and just afraid that it’s too late to get into finance or accounting. I don’t even know how to break into the field. I could always get a masters degree but I don’t know anything about accounting or finance. It’s interesting stuff with the little I learned

[jackcarraway]

I'm seriously considering going from IT to finance; I just find learning how money works is much more interesting. My main goal is being a PFA and working for myself.

[investmentking]

One thing I will add is it is very tough to break into private equity and investment banking especially and many analist roles aswell. For finance your GPA matters and you want to keep it at 80% minimum or 3.5. Accounting does not have as strick requirements on grades and you can still sneak into finance if you get your CFA later on. Finance is high risk to reward degree. If at a target and have good grades major in finance. If not still consider finance, but consider accounting aswell as it gives an employment safety net and you can still get into finance if you want aslong as you get your CFA which is becoming almost manditory even if in finance.