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DarienHacker Wrote:
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> ...Too many people forget however to round out
> their entire profile. This includes demonstration
> of a ability to manage one's own finances.
>
> Think about it. You're reading this forum because
> you want a job in finance: you want people to pay
> you to manage their money. But they won't do that
> if your own financial house isn't in order.
>
> So while you're hanging out at gmatclub, don't
> forget the occasional time out from studying to
> pay attention to maintaining your payment
> schedules, reducing credit card balances, and
> frequently checking your credit report for errors.
>
>
> Remember: FICO > GMAT.

Uhhh, before we start talking about rubbing UofP grads together to start a fire, can we back up to DarienHacker's totally slept-on post? I think that this is an excellent point - I'm frequently blown away by how crappily people making retarded sums of money - whose profession could be described by a well-meaning-but-poorly-translated-foreigner as "money" - handle their personal money.

1 of many terrible examples: I remember a senior employee confessing in summer of 2007 that he had a subprime mortgage, and that the credit rumblings were "scary stuff". I was 22 and I remember just being like...::facepalm::.

How well do y'all handle your personal FINNANCEZ? How well do you think folks in finance do with their personal money, in general?

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