gottabwise wrote:
Glad to hear you've found something you love to do. It's encouraging! I too aspire to be bubbly about my daily work. Two questions: what triggered your interest in finance and 2) can you provide a debrief of your study plan for achieving 780 in the share your gmat experience forum?
share-your-gmat-experience-8/Ey there gottabwise,
Thanks! Being passionate about your work is extremely satisfying and I encourage everyone I know to go for their dream jobs.
1) Well I like numbers and I like figuring people out. Money is a social construct that's expressed in numbers. We get all these prices and interest rates and whatnot but in the end all these things are only worth what society says they're worth. So it's a great combination of those two interests of mine. It's too bad I only realized this after spending five years in engineering.
Half-jokingly, I KNEW I wanted to be in finance when everyone started hating on all the investment bankers after the crisis. Folks, that's pure ENVY. Haha.
2) I'm not sure if I have the time to write in detail about this. I'll make a post when I find time. But I have a couple of pieces of advice if you're interested: First, in my opinion, studying for the GMAT is more like practicing for sports than studying for a typical college exam. Most, if not all, of the problems given should have some sort of "quick" solution. The key is knowing when you need to look at the problems in a different way and not getting stuck in a particular train of though. I'm oversimplifying, of course. Second, the Kaplan stuff worked very well for me - I think their advice on CR and DS was extremely helpful in getting the right mindset. I didn't study too much though. I studied and practiced for a few hours per weekend for 8-10 weekends or so.
I hope you have a merry Christmas and a happy New Year
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22 Dec 2009, 07:41
