Moving Industries (Career Advice)

[TheKey]

Does anyone have an experience in moving industries early in your career? I have been in the Banking Industry (Strategy & Projects) for about two years now. While the company has treated me very well and my work life balance is good, I am not sure Banking is where I want to spend my whole career. For one, I crave change and a fast-paced type of day that Banking is not great at. Secondly, the regulatory burden in your day to day life is suffocating to the point where you can't go to the bathroom without someone brining up whether it will be a violation.

My question is, with only Banking experience on my resume, what are my chances at moving industries and my experience counting as relevant?

 

[CyberB0b]

Does anyone have an experience in moving industries early in your career? I have been in the Banking Industry (Strategy & Projects) for about two years now. While the company has treated me very well and my work life balance is good, I am not sure Banking is where I want to spend my whole career. For one, I crave change and a fast-paced type of day that Banking is not great at. Secondly, the regulatory burden in your day to day life is suffocating to the point where you can't go to the bathroom without someone brining up whether it will be a violation.

My question is, with only Banking experience on my resume, what are my chances at moving industries and my experience counting as relevant?

I would imagine the answer to your question is highly dependent on what field you want to enter. In my line of work (flying airplanes), your experience wouldn't really help.

 

[TheKey]

I would imagine the answer to your question is highly dependent on what field you want to enter. In my line of work (flying airplanes), your experience wouldn't really help.

Right. For example, suppose I wanted to enter into oil and gas trading or M&A Advisory services

 

[CyberB0b]

Right. For example, suppose I wanted to enter into oil and gas trading or M&A Advisory services

You wanting to trade with your own money, or work for a brokerage?

 

[iceberg]

Does anyone have an experience in moving industries early in your career? I have been in the Banking Industry (Strategy & Projects) for about two years now. While the company has treated me very well and my work life balance is good, I am not sure Banking is where I want to spend my whole career. For one, I crave change and a fast-paced type of day that Banking is not great at. Secondly, the regulatory burden in your day to day life is suffocating to the point where you can't go to the bathroom without someone brining up whether it will be a violation.

My question is, with only Banking experience on my resume, what are my chances at moving industries and my experience counting as relevant?

do you know what you want to do? I'm closing in on 50 and still scanning for ideas of what I want to be when I grow up. consider how much you're making, how much you *want* to make to afford the lifestyle you want? what do you enjoy and can you make the $$$ you want doing that? you can always take the skills you've learned and apply how those skills work on other careers.

don't highlight banking industry, highlight accomplishments, skills used to achieve accomplishments, and your objective statement should help outline where you want to go. later in your career it becomes a summary of what you've done.

 

[TheKey]

do you know what you want to do? I'm closing in on 50 and still scanning for ideas of what I want to be when I grow up. consider how much you're making, how much you *want* to make to afford the lifestyle you want? what do you enjoy and can you make the $$$ you want doing that? you can always take the skills you've learned and apply how those skills work on other careers.

don't highlight banking industry, highlight accomplishments, skills used to achieve accomplishments, and your objective statement should help outline where you want to go. later in your career it becomes a summary of what you've done.

Good advice. My banking experience has primarily been analyst work and projects, stuff that would translate well. I guess I was just wondering in general if jobs that require "3+ years experience in..." as relevant experience. The job market is so rough there are plenty of people with experience from that particular industry that are also applying.

My company is great, I'm not dying to leave, it just seems like a coworker will make it very difficult for me to hang around for the rest of my career

 

[Signals]

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