Sacrificing Grades for Relevant Experience?

if you are learning a lot at your work experience then it's worth it, if you actually end up an excel monkey then it's not

Do you think employers will understand if my grades slip due to working part time?

I learnt stuff last time, specifically finance stuff when I was working with the finance people.

>Finance + Engineering
How is this possible? Interested, because i was planning on double majoring in CS and Finance

>>1839571
Idk where you live, but, in Australia lots of uni students do double degrees.

The title of the degree is:

Bachelor of Engineering (my major) with Honours with a Bachelor of Commerce (my Major)

You basically get rid of all electives and add another year to your bachelors and end up with 2 bachelors.

e..g Engineering = 4 years (with very few electives)
Commerce = 3 years (with lots of electives)
Commerce + Engineering = 5 years with no electives.

>>1839567
usually, at least in a middle-market firm outside nyc where people dont have sticks in ass.

I have a shit GPA but most of the employers I come across find the additional experience i have more important than the worse than average grades.

I had an interview where the guy had my gpa circled with ??? on the resume but once I explained my experience/mission statement he didnt even bring it up and I got an offer.

Especially with those credit loads they will understand. Boomers and gen-X think 15 credits is a big fucking deal. Just dont expect to work at Goldman or anything

>>1839579
What if I want to keep my options open for IB and BB?

Maintain a 3.5GPA minimum?

>>1839579
Thanks for the answer btw

>>1839571
Cs and finance makes way more sense

>>1839585
3.5 is typical from what I hear.

IB is gay though, on a per-hour basis you dont really make a lot

And i dont think trading generally has such hard limits on GPA but you would be best served with a 3.5 even at a target school, thats about the bottom limit i've seen trading offers for people at my school (absolutely non-target but well connected alumni)

>>1839589
I'm in Computer engineering - not that far of a stretch from Computer science.

>>1839591
I'm at a non target school, strong for accounting and finance though. Trading would be my ultimate aim regardless if it's quant stuff or your typical trading.

Okay, I'll try keep myself about a 3.5.

Thanks for all the information friend.

>>1839577
Im not sure what general engineering. Is it physics?
>>1839589
Thats good. But Ive been worried about code junkies being saturated. Ive been wondering if i would have more job opportunities if i doubled majored in mathematics or physics instead of CS.

>>1839598
It's not general engineering, I just didn't specify major. I'm in Computer Engineering which at my uni is basically 1.5 years of Java and Half of Electrical Engineering.

>>1839577
monash is the only uni in the state to offer double degrees mate. good stuff on the beng/bcom though (same)