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Jim fink senior analyst personal finance3/23/2023 ![]() Stock analysis was a blast but also a crazy-making grind. I was a broke newlywed during the Great Recession who needed to make more money. After a few years doing investigative business journalism in Seattle, I was spearfished into an investment bank to do stock analysis. (To be clear, business math is easy, but many journalists don’t gravitate toward it!). ![]() In journalism, my first editors put me on the business beat because I wasn’t afraid of math. Journalism became my second career love after computer science. I switched to journalism and earned a master’s degree in that. I had to make current events a part of my career. But then, after 9/11 happened, I felt like I couldn’t go into a so-called regular job. To pay the bills in college, I did database analysis for FDIC. And then, I added a dual minor in physics and communications for the fun and curiosity of it. I majored in computer science in college because I needed a marketable skill as a first-generation college student. Is it common for people in IR to have the trajectory you have had?Īndrea: Thanks for doing your homework on me! I do have an uncommon background. I tried finding more people who have had the series of jobs you have had, and it was a struggle. I want to talk about Elon but let’s first focus on demystifying the IR function at companies through the lens of your journey! You were a vocal, strong early Tesla bull and later worked at Tesla in IR. You have done storytelling in equity markets from every possible vantage point. Sar: You have been an investigative business reporter, a sell-side stock analyst, and now you run investor relations at a public company.
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