Job help!!from marketing assistant to IA?

can you start your career as an investment adviser by starting out as a marketing assistant for a reputed investment firm? the reason i ask is because i just finished college and am on a gap year...i was looking for a job and was recently called for an interview the VP told me he will be needing my services and will likely call me by the end of this week (he said he will be out of town and not return until at the end of the week), there are only 2 more days left until the week ends and i have yet to hear from him? do you think its wise for me to call him and check??? any ways in my mind i am thinking it will be easy to make a transition from a marketing assistant to an investment adviser am i getting ahead o my self? or should i just opt out for graduate program in HR that i have been accepted to instead??


lol i'm a confused 21 year old and still have not quite found my place in the world?


an career advice would be of great help!


thx



Screw the last 2 scammers...





It depends on your interests and what you're good at. You've already graduated from college at 21? Damn, well done.





I would recommend against Marketing, but that's just my opinion because I personally despise it. If you go into graduate school for HR, your job opportunities will be many (and easy to get), but they'll almost certainly be limited to the HR field, and that's a very restricted area (and boring for most). So just based on my own personal interests, I would go for the Finance job, and later on get them to pay for you to go to graduate school for Finance... you'll have a broad knowledge and be able to really succeed once (if) this economy picks up again.




I think you should not call him. If there is a job opening, he needs you. If he is just thinking about a "future" opening, he might not call you for 2 years. Keep applying at other places and never look back.


Yes you can work your way up to investment advisor from a marketing assistant position..