Colorado, from a New Yorker's point of view

I’ve been debating about what line of work to pursue. Part of me, a very big part, says get out of finance. Another part says, “yeah but you have experience, make that work to your advantage with a high paying finance job. Try for something out of my league. Make the fucking MBA payoff. If that doesn’t work then go for something unrelated.” Actually it makes sense to go for both. However any real job seeker will know it is easier said than done. My finance resume is pretty good and ready to go. That’s the cookie cutter one, but trying for other positions requires many other cover letters, each with different focuses and objectives etc. Such a waste of time.

The pyramid in finance gets narrow very quickly. In a typical organization there is one CFO, a few directors and a bunch of peons. At my last job there were about a dozen finance people making a decent living, where as in the small division I supported there were easily 3-4 times that in selling and marketing earning comparable or substantially better salaries. Most of them also had much better hours.

I could easily get another senior financial analyst position, but I don’t want to take the pay cut. Nor do I want to do continue to do the same stuff. I haven’t seen too many finance manager positions posted. The ones that I have come across usually require public accounting experience.

I’ve seen a couple of sales positions, but not enough for my liking. Almost all require sales experience, even for the real crappy sales jobs. Or they require obscure experience. For example, I saw a positing requiring 3-5 years of lawn care / horticulture experience and another that required years of sewer treatment design experience.

Such a frustrating endeavor. Must get motivated to find a job. I’ll keep everyone updated.