>Work for an investment bank (16 months and counting) as lowest-tier associate, on same wages as a supermarket manager
>The one benefit is that I have experience in an area necessary to break into becoming a Invesments Planner and then Wealth Manager / Financial Adviser
>To make the step up I also need to pass 6 more exam modules in regulated financial advice diploma
>These exams are fucking hard work and take serious commitment but I have enough savings to sit them all
>Tell my dad I want to quit my job, study full-time while living at home for 6-9 months and smash out my exams (this is very much a realistic timeframe)
>Explain I can then apply for a job that pays 2-3x my current salary and that the only reason I can't do that now is that I need these exams
>He tells me to stay in my job and study in the evenings / sit exams while working
>Explain that I'd love to but that just won't ever happen, I have no energy or will to live let alone work after a shift at work and that I know dozens of 50 year old losers who say 'yeah I just need to pass my exams then I'll make it'
>He rejects this and heavily implies I am just after an excuse to 'do nothing' and quit my job
What should I do?
Is my boomer dad right?
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I also should stress I saved up a ton of money so I could support myself while not working for half a year or whatever and take these exams. I'm not going to be leeching off the government/family and lazing around all day
It seems like you already want to take the exams, so just go for it, you probably know your situation better than I do.
sounds like you're already committed to passing them. just set up a few deadlines where you should have passed a certain amount of exams and let your dad know he can throw you out if you fail to deliver. this should negate his statement about you doing nothing
Well he sounds a really good parent who trusts his offspring to act intelligently. I suggest you burn down and loot the house in protest to his tyrannical rule
from UK by any chance? was considering doing one of their financial advice diplomas. Is the job market for financial advisers actually good, or should i just remain a codemonkey
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>quit your job and find a less paid one in which you have more time and can focus on study
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This. Bet him something hardcore and he'll see you're not litching pussy.
boomers have an absolute aversion to not working full time all the time.
because for them, the only thing you needed to get a job was a pulse, no education required. the concept of having to learn something before getting a job is completely foreign to a boomer.
Work out hard after work and study every weekend. Don't be lazy.
Save up some money for 9 months to rent out a cheap room/apartment in a cheap area of your country, to pay for food and other expenses and some entertainment. Or just pay your family, if your dad would be up for it.
Kill your dad and piss on his corpse
Fuck your dad. He wants to make sure you don't become more successful than him and is keeping you down so you're just as miserable as he is. Always do the opposite of what your parents say.
Yeah CII Diploma in Regulated Financial Advice it's an extremely lucrative career and I can go from 22k a year to 45-60k starting (and then sky is the limit) moment I pass these exams.
I would understand his hesitation if I was talking about randomly becoming a Doctor and taking 5 years out to get in debt and go back into education from the lowest rung again. But I could pass all these exams in half a year if I wasn't burning myself out everyday, I already have knowledge and experience in the industry.
I pay him 300 a month (gbp I am britbong) to live at home, which is fair enough because I am in 20s and working full time. I have made it clear I could pay him 6 months rent up front but it's more about the idea of 'not working'. He has this idea in his head that you should NEVER QUIT YOUR JOB.
It sounds like you have convinced yourself you won't pass the exams unless you take 6 months off. So find away to do that even if you have to move out
Imagine taking rent from your very own kids so they can live with you and listen to your boomerish talk everyday.
Stop blaming "boomer" dad and man the fuck up, stop playing the victim.
It's your life, make it so.
yeah imagine taking your parents opinions into account and having some kind of internal struggle, I should just recklessly pursue whatever I want all of the time.
I agree with your point to an extent but you can't just expect me to not care about what my dad says, only people from shit families think like that. He may be being unreasonable but he's given me a lot of help and money throughout my life so I'm at least considering what he has to say.
>being unreasonable
Again, stop playing the victim. You might think he's being unreasonable, but he's allowed to have his perspective as well.
Perhaps he wants to stop helping you financially precisely so that you learn to accept your life on your own terms? Sure he might be financially support you during your exams, but maybe he wants your success to be entirely yours and yours alone from now on?
He has his life, your have yours. Live and let live, homeboy
>He may be being unreasonable
why did you edit what I said to remove the operative part of the sentence? You're just being antagonistic.
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have been looking around, seems the two level 4 diplomas are the CII and the LIBF ones. What made you choose CII over LIBF? thanks
I spoke to a lot of IFA's and they all said that CII is the board that they hold in the highest regard and that it's the standard here. They also said the LIBF Dipfa is considered an easy route and not taken seriously. They call it 'diploma of fuck all' within the industry.
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see this, inb4 'PLEBBIT FAG!!!!!!!' the day Zig Forums has serious discussions about qualifying for jobs in finance is the day I will stop using that subreddit
double dubs of truth, thanks for the insight and good luck
I bet those exams are easy as fuck. 9 months to study for them? Jesus kid. Your dad is right. Just go take them now and apply autism such as: the longest answer is usually right, the one with the most details unless those details are cray is usually right, and if you dont know, guess!
arrogant retard, the reason they won't take me that long is that I've already done a lot of work in the field and understand complex shit like LTA, financial protection and FCA regulations which would send you to sleep within 20 minutes of starting the textbook.
Why don't you move out again? You have the savings to
Just buy Link with the money instead user and fuck the wagie exams. I was going to focus on my career at first but then realised that most jobs are just pointless busywork and you can make it from well thought out investments anyway. Our economy is about to completely collapse (worse than 1929) and those qualifications won't be worth shit in the post collapse economy
And no I'm not a doomer. I've made 400k since February from options and crypto and can now afford to retire at 30. This made me realise what a joke having a 'career' is
I am trying to save as much money as possible to buy a house next year (I think UK property market will dip soon).
I would take the hit and rent if I hated living at home (this post probably implies I do) but aside from this disagreement I have a good relationship with my family and they pay for all the food, do my laundry etc. It's a tad pathetic I admit but I don't really want to rent, I'd rather be 'that 20s guy living with his parents' for one more year, buy a house and skip renting.
I appreciate your advice, I made a fair bit in 2017 and I am holding a lot of crypto currently (I reckon another altseason is about to happen but who knows). That said, I think you're a little overconfident to put it lightly
Do with action not with words, once he sees that you are studying for real he will back you up
But you will have to work + study first for sometime
>What should I do?
Admit that he is right.
He probally knows you won't pass them.
You're on here so probably you default to NEET. He's not right in that you're looking for excuse to do nothing but it might not be best to drop everything and do self-directed study for nearly a year unless you know you can stick it out.
I think your best bet is to seek a part time gig and study while doing that as a compromise. Show your dad you're not just dropping everything because you're a lazy degenerate millenial and keep a bit of structure in your week.
All I'm saying is we are due the biggest crash in living memory which everyone thinks is not going to happen because of recency bias and currency printing. I think it would be more prudent NOT to spend thousands to get a qualification in the financial sector when the outlook is as bleak as it is.
I started university studying finance in 2007 and then it was impossible to get a job as I graduated straight into the aftermath of the financial crisis, which actually taught me more useful information than any university course or any job could and forced me to seek out alternative ways to become wealthy