If you are a finance analasys or thats your major how did you know finance was what you really like? I am not that good at math but I have done up to calculus 2. Does involve a lot of math?
I want to do finance and I want to do different types of investments, mostly in the real state field. There is any field that give me the freedom to be own boss?
Please I need help!!!
Thanks!!
Finance is a decent field to get a degree in. A few years ago, you were almost guaranteed job.
Like any business major, you have the potential to be your own boss, but there is a lot of risk and you have to have an entreprenueral spirit.
If you want to be an anylst, most likely you will be working for someone else. The pay will be decent and in a large company you could work your way up to probably a senior financial analyst or middle management, where you would be seeing over other people.
Doing the real estate route, you would probably have to be a loan provider at a bank. I will tell you right now, working for a bank SUCKS, and moving up is difficult.
Or if you wanted to do investment type stuff, you could work for a financial firm as a broker. Some of the income involved with that could be commission, and personally, I don't like my pay being based on an "if."
If you were to work for yourself, you would need to get experience in the field first, and of course you could try to branch off.
I majored in Finance, and right now it is extremely difficult to find entry-level positions in the field. I wasn't good a math, but I did fine in Finance because there is alot of basic math skills and common sense involved.
If I were to suggest anything, I would say double major in something else (like Accounting) to give you an edge over others when you get out of school. There are a lot of opportunities in Finance other than actually doing investments or analyzing finances. You could do insurance, or management, or a number of things. But, definitley get that double major. (I have a friend who works at Siemens and he got hired as a financial analyst with an accounting degree because his boss said that accounting degrees are considered harder to get.)
you are never your own boss. you either anser to a supervisor, your lender, your investors, Board of directors of your customers.
The higher up in organization you are the more demanding your bosses are. CEO has the most demanding boss of all.
I always have a choice.By creating a simple calculation you can figure out when you will need more money.You know your financial forecast than anyone.