I used to be a semi interested business administrations student who loved and still loves to play poker, because of the risk that the game bears. You could consider me as some sort of a risk seeker, if you wanted to.
During my four semesters of business administration studies I have come across subjects like finance and investments before. And to tell you the truth, I found them most boring.
Whenever someone asked me what I would want to do after graduating I'd find myself unable to answer them that question. With business administrations I could basically work anywhere, whether it was a job in accounting, human resources, marketing or logistics just to name a few of my possibilities. Nevertheless, nothing of all that did interest me until, my helicopter parent of a mother signed me up for a summer program and to make it even worse, a program about finance and investments but today I truly must thank her for doing so.
Once I entered the program I realized that the topics of finance and investments were presented in a totally different way than they were in university.
It was strikingly interesting how similar the business of venture capitals were to my beloved poker! The risk is rather high and you don't know but only can assume which trend will set through. Just like poker where you never can know which cards your opponent holds.
After only three weeks of the Swiss Finance Academy's summer program I knew what I wanted to do after graduation. A question I couldn't answer after a whole two years of studying.
Additionally the instructors could always back the things they told us up with experiences they had made during their work on Wall Street.
Getting to know the world of finance not only from books but also from real life cases, brought by practitioners, who had insider knowledge was so interesting that I am now aiming for a profession dealing with venture capitals.
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