BSc Economics and Finance?

Question

Graduating in < 1year, hence beginning to worry about getting a job thereafter. Here are my options:

i) Get a job (but what job can I go for?)

ii) Get a Master in Economics (then what?)

Which is the better route?

Answer 1

It depends on your ultimate goals.

Do you want to get a job as an economists? then be a scholar in the field and you will find jobs in teaching or as a financial analyst with an emphasis in macro econ analysis, after you get your advanced degree in econ.

If you want to be a Financial analyst of companies and sectors, you probably need to get the job, and get some accounting courses, since many financial analysts need some CPA knowledge, this route requires less of a scholar education track.

Answer 2

For one whose focus is in that of Economics, I should say that you do and will use your own &#039;economy&#039; best where you allow sufficient space first to reflect and relax that you may better use time when graduation day arises.  &#039;That&#039; -- the now -- is where all becomes most important.  These concerns you have of the future are noteworthy, yes, but one knows best when in context with it; meaning, when all the variables have come together in real time.  

Right now, you are in the head, maybe too much, and not endeavoring in a first-hand mode yet.  In other words, dimension comes to bear and few if any at all can know the future; they can only study causative aspects.

One year from now bespeaks limitless possibilities as do all things in terms of how future measures of markets and world monetary regulators weft and warp.  Billions of stars have vanished from the no-thing of space in less time.  Who but the insiders could have foreseen the mortgage debacle that would occur [and not even the insiders could truly &#039;foresee&#039; this ensuing error], for example? -- their so-called great MBA knowledge base blinded by greed.

Of the two options you choose, your mistake is, you don&#039;t allow for a third -- a wild card -- a third option.  By this, rest assured, if one of your three go wrong, you will need a second of the three to offset the first, and will need the remaining third to re-group, have sufficient provision to avoid standing in food lines, and have chance again to re-start.

I am no economist, nor am I a financier, but I &#039;am&#039; someone who knows what it is to be without food and a roof over my head that I can call my own.  Therefore, here I give unto you something to treasure in your heart now and henceforth -- it matters not whether you have a B.Sc., an MBA, or a Ph.D.  What truly matters in today&#039;s economy is that you &#039;may&#039; have a J.O.B. and a good heart.