u/seventeenthirdyeight

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Straight to it, I am 25 and didn't go to school. Grinded an IT career became a systems engineer and realized if I went up one more rung I'd really be stuck in the field. Really interested in FP&A or more analytical work.

That said, I have a friend at a big southeast regional bank, they were able to get me in really quick in a help desk role. Not glamorous, in many ways humbling. However, having the internal bank job opportunities will hopefully help me since I am doing my degree online and wouldn't have traditional internship opportunities.

I want to know what are good junior roles within a bank that I can pivot to? Jr Treasury roles? Credit admin?

Unfortunately, all the internal finance job listings I've seen so far as more senior, so it's been hard to gauge what I should be targeting. The bank has a rule where you have to wait 12 months until you can apply internally, and my manager is aware of me wanting to pivot and is supportive.

Job titles aside, my plan is to continue doing Sophia online credits to knock out gen eds, do WGU accounting, and have meaningful accounting credits completed to try and make up for not having a completed degree.

I also would love to hear what I can do to leverage my tech background when I do get that chance to sit down with someone and make my case for being the candidate.

Good with scripting and coding, understand data flows, etc

Overall, just want to maximize these next 10 months until I can apply and be as competitive as I can be, relative to where I am coming from.

Would greatly appreciate any and all input and especially if any of you have made a similar pivot!

Hey everyone,

Not posting this for corny karma farming, genuinely just want to get up to speed as a new fan.

Unrelated to ball, I grew up in a nonreligious home, and a couple of buddies of mine helped me get to the point of beginning my confirmation at our local parish.

I’ve been wanting a second team to follow so I can get even more out of the greatest sport in the world, and Notre Dame felt almost too natural as the choice for me. Especially as a lifelong Tennessee fan.

What should I know before the season starts as a new ND fan? History, traditions, rivalries, players, coaches, whatever you think is essential.

I’ve read a little about Lou Holtz and The Four Horsemen. That’s about the extent of my ND knowledge right now lol.

Appreciate any help. Go Irish.

Non traditional student, I am 25 with an IT career, peaked at my last role as a sysadmin (self taught, no debt or previous credits) and just took what I am hoping is a strategic step down to do help desk for a big regional bank. Rule is I have to wait 12 months to begin applying internally.

I plan on doing Sophia and beelining the foundational accounting credits so by next August I will have a decent baseline and hopefully can knock out the accounting degree in 1.5-2 years online.

I've been poking around the currently listed finance/accounting roles at the bank in my free time and I've seen FP&A analyst and manager roles, along with other more senior roles, but I am not seeing lots of jr / entry level roles.

I get that's a current thing and will change, plan to keep checking of course just to read the descriptions so I can see how to best position myself for those opportunities once I complete 12 months of service in my current role.

My questions to you all are:

1. What roles should I try and target? I get FP&A isn't entry at all and I am not expecting it to be that way. Should I aim for treasury roles? I just don't want to hop into credit admin or something that can potentially pigeonhole me.

2. What should I work on outside of my accounting credits? I have been following Wall Street Prep modeling guides and prompting Claude to give me financials for a fake company so I can build my own out in a less guided way. Trying to get my Excel chops solidified as well.

Would greatly appreciate specifics towards what entry level roles I need to target once I hit 12 months of service, as well as what else I should be focusing on in the meantime outside of modeling and technicals like Excel/Power Bi (Already good with SQL, Python, PowerShell from my IT career).

Thank you!

Straight into it, 25, sysadmin starting a business degree. I have a potential offer to work for a regional bank and and after ~12mo apply within towards a support role adjacent to the role I want in banking.

My train of thought, and hopefully anyone who has done WGU accounting or pursued similar can attest, is trying to get the degree done in 2.5-3 years and ideally near or around completing the degree be hirable and competitive with my background in commercial banking.

My main reservations are if I do CC -> transfer to 4 year I am able to also work in finance courses into my degree versus WGU where I'm really only accessing the specific major one term.

The potential role has tuition reimbursement and the guild program so if I move forward I would get more info after settling into the job and look the guild and reimbursement down the middle and try to optimize whether it's a WGU move / Jeff St / other guild offering.

If you were in this or a similar situation, how would you look at it?

I am starting college this fall at 25 and will be working full time and doing night classes.

My set in stone DCA is $250mo/ and I am curious what your thoughts are in regard to DCAing SPMO over the next 4 years. May do weekend side gigs when I have the energy between school and work.

But baseline I am expecting to have $12K contributed in my taxable account when I finish college

I understand the "quirks" of it versus a broader ETF, but would love to hear from anyone who has done this over a similar or longer period of time.

I already have money in my Roth / 401k / HSA.

*Another question I forgot to add: at what point should I start another position in my taxable? 5K in SPMO? 10K and then that last expect $2000 to be DCA'd into VXUS/other?