future plans narrative
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11 Dec 2013, 04:42
Hi all, looking for input into this, all ideas welcome.
I am formulating my "what do you want to do with the future" story, and I am missing a piece of what I think is a coherent, compelling and (most importantly) honest narrative.
I come from a poor background, so the way the financial sector interacts with the poor in society is really interesting to me, and I'd like to eventually looking to move into that kind of work (e.g., products like Amex's blue bird, which gives low cost banking services to lower income folks). I understand this to be commercial banking, which isn't the traditional stomping ground of MBAs.
I'm a financial manager for the military now, and I want to continue on in fields with rigorous quant components, so I'd like to go for investment banking.
The part I'm missing is how to thread together these two narratives. Is there a logical place where the commercial banking sector and investment banking sector intersect? Most military applicants, I gather, say they want to push consulting, and that'd be more simple, but I'd rather be more honest about what I'd like to do (though I'm under no illusions about the risk that i might change my mind).
to recap:
1. grow up poor
2. work in financial analysis for the military, master spreadsheets
3. MBA -> i-banking
4. ????
5. commercial banking