leftist manson
18th May 2010, 06:10
Hi Comrades,
First of all i apologize for posting this in econ but i think this is probably the only place where i can get the sort of career advice i want as there are trained economists regularly posting here...
I'm in a really really difficult situation about my future (got so much student debt but the jobs are hard to nowhere to come by)....
The thing is that i finished my BA in Econ last spring but couldn't find any relevant job 'in the field'... Did different labour jobs etc....
Now i'm going back for at least a year to diversify my degree a little bit but even after that i would be at the same level ... So my friend suggested that i do CFA after this year... Now i want to stick to economics in the long run but the Graduate programs require some 'relevant' work experience and nowadays are full of all sorts of arcane requirements like 500 volunteer hours etc.... Moreover majority schools here accept the 4.0 GPA types which i'm nowhere near.....
Do you think that i should take the CFA route and come back to econ after getting some sort of 'relevant' experience (after finding relevant jobs) as it would up my chance of being accepted in ECON Master's or is it going to be futile....
Moreover, how much is the CFA going to expand my knowledge of the economy at large (Does it even expand it or is it total bourgeois number-crunching non-sense??) {{{This is my main motivation as my friend thinks that i need to learn 'finance' to find out the 'inner-workings' of the over-all capitalist system}}}
Am i wasting a good 3 years of my life pursuing bourgeois non-sense technicalities or does it relate in a very subtle and nuanced way to political-economy and social maneuvrings of the bourgeoisie???
I mean the recent financial manoeuvring like CDOs and CDSs, interest-rate swaps, options, futures etc. would help me understand social change and society, no????
Really, please help comrades!!!
Thanks!!! You're the very best
First of all i apologize for posting this in econ but i think this is probably the only place where i can get the sort of career advice i want as there are trained economists regularly posting here...
I'm in a really really difficult situation about my future (got so much student debt but the jobs are hard to nowhere to come by)....
The thing is that i finished my BA in Econ last spring but couldn't find any relevant job 'in the field'... Did different labour jobs etc....
Now i'm going back for at least a year to diversify my degree a little bit but even after that i would be at the same level ... So my friend suggested that i do CFA after this year... Now i want to stick to economics in the long run but the Graduate programs require some 'relevant' work experience and nowadays are full of all sorts of arcane requirements like 500 volunteer hours etc.... Moreover majority schools here accept the 4.0 GPA types which i'm nowhere near.....
Do you think that i should take the CFA route and come back to econ after getting some sort of 'relevant' experience (after finding relevant jobs) as it would up my chance of being accepted in ECON Master's or is it going to be futile....
Moreover, how much is the CFA going to expand my knowledge of the economy at large (Does it even expand it or is it total bourgeois number-crunching non-sense??) {{{This is my main motivation as my friend thinks that i need to learn 'finance' to find out the 'inner-workings' of the over-all capitalist system}}}
Am i wasting a good 3 years of my life pursuing bourgeois non-sense technicalities or does it relate in a very subtle and nuanced way to political-economy and social maneuvrings of the bourgeoisie???
I mean the recent financial manoeuvring like CDOs and CDSs, interest-rate swaps, options, futures etc. would help me understand social change and society, no????
Really, please help comrades!!!
Thanks!!! You're the very best