Week 7. Dream job revisited

At the start of this course was also around to time where I started my co-op. Back then, I wrote that I would be interested in working in finance or investment banking but I didn’t know what job specifically. But now, almost 2 months into my co-op, I finally think I know what I want to get myself involved in. I am currently working in a Hedge Fund that manages assets of over 12 billion dollars. I work in the middle office operations team. The work I do is different than what the front office does, who are the people that does all the equity research, analysis, and trading executions. I have decided that I want to be an analyst working on the trade floor. People say that finance is not for everyone, it really is for the ones that are qualified and ones that are passionate in investing money. For me, more and more I learn about this industry, more and more I want to get involved in it. The idea of using sophisticated strategies and hedging to multiply one’s capital just fascinates me. It’s amazing to see all different types of investments that are made here and how our analyses and decisions bear fruit. It just blows my mind. So more than before, I want to get into this field of business preferably a private hedge fund and work as a analyst or a trader. In terms of the specifics of the job environment, I can’t complain of where I am right now, our office occupies the top floor of the Hancock Tower, which is the highest building in New England. Thus, for my dream job, I would want an office that is close to being like my current office right now. I would want the company to be fairly small but still well known. However, most hedge funds don’t market themselves because they are not regulated by the SEC, so if I do work in a hedge fund again, it would probably be unknown. But that will be fine.