/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>12768703

Uh what's your math like sport. And I don't mean the plug and chug bullshit either. Its literally an applied math degree.

>>12768846
My math is alright, I did pretty well in my finance and stat class

>>12768703
>finance
>job prospects look bleak

I dont even meme, but if you are even slightly normal (aka "not retarded"), you will never have to worry about having a well paid, secure job.

Even more so, if you already know to code. Coding in combination with finance is a straight shot into upper-middle class right away after uni with extremely well prospects in the following years.

>>12768703
Good thinking
I work in a global recruiting firm.
I'm specialized in finance and accounting executive headhunting.
The only jobs left in the field in ten years will be jobs for those using/programming the machines.
One of my clients had 300 hundred traders in 2000, now has 2 guys running HFT, and is trading bigger volumes than in 2000.

You don't have to leave finance altogether. There's a high demand for finance controllers with skills in ERP calibrating/deployment/training.
That+big data is a good combo

>>12769072
thanks, anon. I was thinking that, maybe I'll look into a dual degree so I don't waste all of my first year in finance.

I'm studying Applied CS, It's something in between CS and Finance/Economics, considering switching completely to CS only because as of right now I feel like I'm learning 30% of each instead of 100%

>>12769072
Good suggestion. SMEs around the world are in dire need for anyone being able to handle data in databases. However, "big data" is more often than not simply a non-normalized star-scheme database, where someone needs to analyze the quality and implications behind the data, improve the data quality, build simple tools around it and make recommendations to the executive level what to do, based on the data.

So the "big data" approach I would agree with, but many things you learn in a CS degree has only very little use in this area and a finance degree with solid knowledge in C#, R, Python and databases in general would be a better way to enter this field. If the amount of collected data exceeds this level, most companies tend to hire phds in math/physics/CS for this work.

But for analyzing this data, I have yet to see a department, which had less than 50% people with a degree other than finance.

>>12769161
>less than
More than, ofc.

>>12768703
2cents from average guy:
AI / Machine Learning seems to be the new ‘hip’, Distributed Systems and Big Data are already considered Old School.

Is International Business a meme? What's a good language to learn?

>>12769286
>International Business a meme
Depends heavily on your background, the sector you want to work in etc.

If e.g. your parents are from china and you look chinese, but dont speak Chinese, learning this language is recommendable, as Chinese like to work with "their people".

>>12769317
My little brother is half Chinese I’m gonna talk him into this

>>12768703
just keep studying finance good knowledge R can get you quite far in accounting and finance if its related to "big data"

also additional C#/Java and Python can get also quite far

>>12769317
>recommendable
yeah, do the needful and stick to chinese

>>12768703
Anon is there any reason you can't do both?

Double majors are common in Ameriburger and having both Finance + CS majors would make you insanely employable.