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Stuck Between Careers: Finance vs. IT - 22 Year Old Seeks Guidance

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Personality Development Expert, Career Coach - Answered on Oct 01, 2024

Ashwini Dasgupta is a personality development coach and a neuro-linguistic programming trainer.
She has 15 years of experience training corporate professionals and has worked at Amazon, JP Morgan, Nomura and Satyam among others.
As a career coach, Ashwini specialises in helping growth-minded IT corporate managers develop their self-worth and create the right mindset so that they can achieve their career goals.
Besides corporate training, she offers personal consultations as well.
Ashwini holds a master’s degree in human resources from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, and is a certified NLP trainer from the National Federation of NeuroLinguistic Programming, USA.
She has completed her soft skills training and image consultancy course from the Image Consulting Business Institute, Mumbai
Ashwini is also a PoSH trainer, certified by the Society for Human Resource Management.... more

Question by Poke on Sep 30, 2024Hindi

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I am 22 years old now completed my Mcom external as I was preparing for competitive exams (Regulatory Bodies and Bank Op) so in this 2 years of my mcom I did not do any job nor did I gain other skills. Now I decided to do Financial Modeling course which is of 3.5 months and get placed through the org I will be pursuing this course get some work expi and also prepare for MBA entrance exams like CAT, XAT, NMAT, CET, SNAP etc. But now my brother's friend who's in It sector said me to do some technical courses rather than this financial course like DevOps + Python, Full Stack Developer, Data Engineering etc he suggested some more but I can't remember them now but he said that as I have no background in technical so I just do DevOps and also learn a programming language as this IT sector has lots of work but less people so I will get placed easily and will also get some good package. But I know a friend of mine he did such same course but he's not earning much like 12k a month but my brother's friend who also did this devops course for 3 months with 5 years of gap he's now in Banglore and have 10lps package. I'm so confused what's happening I can't understand what should I do Finance course or technical course. And if I ask myself I'm like I don't know maybe the one which give me good money in my hand. But what I do? Which will give me good amount in my hand or how will be my growth in both careers. Please help me, please tell me the difference in both finance and in IT sector career growth, job opportunities, lifestyle.

Ans: Dear Sir/ Madam,

Most importantly do the course what resonates with your more. What's your inclination. Everyone will come and help you with the information at the end do what will make you happy. Else you may end up doing what others are saying and you may not enjoy it in the long run. If you inclined towards both finance and technical then you can do the finance course as it will serve as the domain expertise and work on the technology front.

Whatever you choose should align with your motivation and not only with financial goals.

Hope this helps

Thanks
Ashwini
www.ashwinidasgupta.com