>> You know, my major was in music and German which was completely unrelated
to anything investment banking related or finance related
or even business related and consulting.
I met a guy who is a former chairman of the board of Pomona College
and who's a very senior banker at Goldman Sachs.
And he was a Pomona graduate, and his major was English.
So I think, you know, for people who are in college, I think you pursue your passion.
Pursue what you're good at.
Pursue what you enjoy doing, and then let life evolve the way it's supposed to evolve.
If you were meant to be working in investment banking, you will find a way to that path.
You know, don't set out and say, Oh, I want to work investment banking.
Therefore, I need an economics degree or a finance degree or a math degree
or a computer science or something like that or a hard sciences degree
because it generally typically doesn't work out that way.
You do what you're good at, what you excel at, what you're passionate about.
And those types of feelings come out during your interviews for the types
of jobs that you're interviewing for.
People can identify that and to respect that and take you seriously for that.
And most of these banks, you know, the consulting firms in these banks,
they really don't care what you major in because they offer such fantastic training programs.
And they believe that the most important criterion that they can have
for getting somebody in a firm is somebody who's smart, somebody who's committed,
somebody who's going to be there for the long haul and who is going
to be committed to doing the job very well.
And that can come from any major.