Hello everyone! :)
Resume:
BS: Accounting
MS: Finance
Previous job: 2 years doing operations work at a small financial advising firm (creating quarterly reports, updating alternative asset values, etc).
Current job: 2.5 years doing corporate finance at a large national defense company.
In my current job, they have rotated me into different finance departments every 6 months (small projects team, billings, pricing, forecasting, and now overheads). It's been a great experience overall...
But I have become bored of my work. It seems too repetitive and... I kind of don't care about national defense/what the forecast numbers mean. It's not interesting to me.
I do enjoy building the spreadsheets... Automating it. Making basic macros to turn my 3 hour report into 3 minutes. How cool is that?!? :)
I do have passion for investments/asset allocation... Maybe an asset management job at Goldman or something could be fun? (although I fear the 60 hour work weeks)
I do wonder if I need to try a new company doing corporate finance, to see if I actually enjoy the work, but disliked the culture at my current one.
I've thought about becoming a financial advisor, but hate the idea of the saleman side of the job.
Overall I think I'd rather work 60 hours doing something I love, than the current 40 hours of meh (more like 5-10 hours of real work, and 30-35 hours of sitting on my ass staring at my cubicle wall).
Any advice is appreciated. Even if you aren't in finance!
