Make money doing the work you believe in

Ask me that question in 2 years’ time! but so far is kind of mixed feelings :-).

After reading the below MIT Sloan’s article it made me take a step back and think how did it went for me. Sometimes, you need some wakeup calls, and this was one.

In nutshell, 5 years ago, I decided to make a lateral move from Finance to Pricing… up to now there were some upsides, but also some downsides.

The upsides were: (i) to get out of my comfort zone (career and academic level), (ii) see the business from a different perspective, (iii) learnt a lot about pricing, business intelligence, data science and… even coding, always leveraging my (iv) quantitative knowledge coming from my financial background (statistics, economics, modeling, econometrics, game-theory, etc…).

The negatives relate to the fact that this should be a steppingstone for something different, part of a development plan, but so far, I’m becoming every day, more and more, a pricing expert (still not to the level of my finance expertise, but by now with a fairly decent level) and that was not the intended endgame :-).

So, lets see in 2 years’ time, I will let you know.

Oct 1, 2024
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