Career advice

[Actual God]

I have two job-offers. I love money, but I really really really don't want to work in finance forever.

1) Sales and trading at Merrill Lynch in Chicago. Approx 100K in first year.

Pros: Big money, potential for huge money in a couple years. Stimulating work? Chicago.

Cons: Potential of getting sucked in, sidetracked from other pursuits (business ventures, novel-writing). Difficult to move to another career? Money-crunching drudgery? Burnout.


2) Speech writer for governor of my state. I'm 23, so obviously I'm not like writing all the big speeches, but I'm there doing important [censored]. Approx 37K

Pros: Might actually be valuable work. Could lead to sweet Washington jobs.

Cons: Boring cold city. Probably dumb work like press releases. Politards.

Thanks.