ranking every finance career (tierlist)

in this video I rank every finance career from S tier to D tier. This includes accountancy, investment banking, private equity, equity research, quant trading, investment advisory, sales and trading, risk management, private quity, protfolio management, venture capital, and private equity. I discuss the pros and cons of each, compensation, eccetera.

00:00 intro
01:25 worst one
02:34 no life career
06:06 play cs:go career
08:03 handle big trades career
10:46 read a lot career
14:03 have fun with cool people career
16:39 first grey hair by 25 career
18:22 sigma male career
22:04 monopoly man career
25:12 print money career

[leonaskindra]

I'm not an accountant but lets not forget that accounting is one of the most important skills to learn in finance since it is literally language of businesses

[LukeAvedon]

Accounting is not boring, accountants are boring. Great video!

[jakeg]

Would love to hear you talk more specifically on the differences between Quant roles (dev, trader, research) and best path to take for each.

[lucedoke]

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[alexffvibes]

Accounting as a CPA is undervalued. As you know there is more to accounting. Public accounting which includes Outsourced Accounting, Tax, Audit. And there’s industry jobs for the above. Owning your own firm can yield to 10x your salary if you are patient with growing the business.

There’s also a CPA shortage so getting your CPA would counter any automations that are coming.

[homf]

As dirty and mundane an accounting work (which this dude allegedly said), all the top tier careers listed by dude rely on the end products and deliverables of an accountant. All the above at varying degrees need information from the C tiered accountant and financial statements.

[trapitusaventurez]

Saying ER pigeonholes you less than IB is pretty incorrect. Your exit opps with ER are extremely limited compared to IB. Coming from someone in top ER.

[Random_characters_username]

Here we go with accounting, you can’t talk about accounting as a whole, were you talking about Tax? Internal accounting? Audit? Those are so different. Accounting has the most longevity out of any of these, you can’t rely on AI to conduct an audit for you example, you can ask AI to find and pitch stocks.

[Blueblackngold]

Accounting is in every business though? Is it not the only useful one on this list?

[michelfaloughi]

Could you do a part 2 with quant finance careers like quant research, quant dev, quant trading and others. Love your content 👑

[lg]

You forgot to tier working at Home Depot

[RajaRickin]

accountant shortage at the current moment...same as in 2009 when i graduated. no one is laying us off. in fact, the entire tech staff will get laid off before u let go of ur accountants, because someone needs to watch the money and you need a person to sign off on those internal controls and those financials, by law. the best accountants always have a place to work you dont have an economy without accountants

[sakjdh]

Another con with quant trading is requirement for a P.H.D in Math from MIT. At least to land at a decent place like Renaissance or Citadel.

[basedjay]

Studying for my CPA, you dropped the ball on accounting.

[MultipleSclerosisResearc-cfib]

HARDLY is this "every" finance career. what about actuary, risk, audit, taxes, fp&a?

[SnapBackCollector]

The description you provided for Equity Research is at a senior level.

[stephanecivil]

You need to do more research on the CPA profession. A CPA can do what a finance bro can, but a finance bro can’t do what a CPA does. Exist strategies are greater for a CPA. I’ve seen people from my firm easily get into PE and other finance bro careers.

[eddy]

You should definitely discuss the difference between BS ER vs SS ER

[itsYoung]

Quant is hard to get into and u rly need a strong math/CS background

[doraemonpawnz]

The biggest pros of IB is not the money but the power and network. Depending on your projects and sector, you can get well connected with cabinet members and the network you get is insane, at least in my country. VC and Quant guys print more money tho