Should I take the job? investment, marketing, suddenly, position, studying

Nishant1

Ok, so here is my case. I am preparing for the CFA on December 2009.
However, I've decided to work while studying and suddenly I got two jobs
which I have to decide.
The first one is the position as a financial analyst that require about 80 hours of work
in a week with salary of $40k.
The second job is in a marketing company which has nothing to do with investment
but the pay is around $30k with 40 hours of work in a week.

If you were me, which job would you take?

leadcfa

FA so you can get your charter in 4 years assuming you crack the exams. 80 hours a week sounds like investment banking, not financial analyst. You'll be ok.

Flok

FA job making 40 k working 80 hours...doesnt make sense and doesnt seem like the best job unless the bonus its at least twice that.

evolsteevol

I would do almost anything for any finance related job right now.

burnsy562000

The first job pays $10 per hour. Do you realize how absurd that is?

Londonrocks

EMHdenied Wrote:
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> The first job pays $10 per hour. Do you realize
> how absurd that is?

Does that include explicit and implicit costs?

Just kidding!

Take the FA job and put about 20 hours a week on the CFA for the beginning months and see how that goes. Meanwhile put everything else in your life on hold.

Mechanic

80 hours a week and CFA is probably a bit much. I'm not you, but if I were it would all depend on much you would like your job. Just give it a go and take the first job; and see what happens. The worst is it is to much for you and you fail or know your going to fail. Then just take the CFA when you have time. But besides that you seem like you are getting short changed with the pay in the first job like EMHdenied says.

FVPV

80 hours a week just doesn't add up for that pay.. go work at mcdonalds in alberta and you'd make more per hour

jim8z3

40k? i hope you mean euros.... what country is this job in?