Quote: (04-06-2015 12:35 AM)HenryHill Wrote:
Stop the limiting beliefs. Too late to start a new career in your late 20s? Are you smoking crack? People are changing careers at much older age these days and it's becoming more and more common.
Most people work until their 60s. So even if it takes you five years to break into a new industry, you will be 35 which means you have another 30 YEARS ahead of you.
Stop the loser mentality, pick a field and get to work.
Seconded. I'm in the middle of doing the same thing coming out of the military, and going into finance.
If you're in more of a "business" speciality (finance, marketing, etc) start looking into MBA programs. You need to get into a good one to make it worthwhile in most cases but if you know where you want to live a regional school is a good way to make the transition.
Something that will work in your favor is that it's generally easier to get into a European or Asian B-school than it is a similar tier American one. The MBA educational model depends on having students with a wide variety of perspectives to contribute to class discussions.....and one way of doing that is to make sure that you've got inter-continental students in the class.
Personally I'd recommend you take a look at consulting. I've got a family member who wants to live in Asia and he's told me that one of the few viable ways to do that while having a good career is to get into a good management consulting firm. The downside is that most Asians are incredibly prestige obsessed, and most consulting firms recruit their new employees directly out of MBA programs. As a result getting a job in consulting, in Asia pretty much requires you to attend a top tier university's business school.....think Ivy leagues or any similarly prestigious European schools.
Not as bad as it sounds though. Most business schools are far more red pill than the schools as a whole.