-: Finance, accounting, economics, all make sense
and fit in well, but it doesn't necessarily have to be that.
I mean, a business school degree generally will help
enter this field, or this industry.
But, it doesn't necessarily have to be just that.
I've seen people be successful
in this industry, with art degrees.
And, English degrees, and Journalism majors.
You would look for internships with financial services,
firms within financial services,
I think there's plenty available.
Janney has an internship program, here.
And then you would kind of find your channel,
it may not necessarily be the private client group,
but there's investment banking, there's capital markets,
there's the trading desk.
All these different opportunities,
and you typically find what you really like to do,
once you are exposed to those various,
those different areas within financial services.
Take the entry level role that you may not want,
but you can learn from. Get your foot in the door,
and you'll probably get the role you really want
in a couple of years.
After doing what you need to do and working hard.
You know, I didn't start in this role initially,
I started on the entry level side of Janney's operations,
and that was 10 years ago.
I worked really hard,
I made sure I learned as much as I could,
and it worked out pretty well.
Most practical way to get experience is
trying to do it yourself, you know, reading, learning,
maybe open a small investment account
with Vanguard, or E-Trade, or Charles Schwab.
And try to adapt on a small scale, those principles,
that you learned and read about,
and, you know, look at Bloomberg.com or
CNBC.com and see what the markets are doing,
and understand that a lot of it may be noise,
but a lot of it may help you understand,
just in general, what's happening in the world,
and I think that's a good way to start.