Straightened Out His Tie in

¶ … straightened out his tie in the mirror, slicking back his hair with his other hand. I remember the gleam spreading across the top of his shoes, emerging from the bottom of his pin stripe pants, and the way he would methodically tuck his cufflinks into his jacket. Some days I would run to get his briefcase, and he would always stop to pat my head before heading out into the morning sun.

Some of my earliest memories are of watching my father prepare to go to work on Wall Street each day. He would often come home and tell my mother -- as my brothers and I listened eagerly -- about various facets of stocks, bonds, and other financial details that we were too young to understand…then.

But those memories, and the knowledge he would eventually impart upon us as we progressed through school, were some of the most formidable experiences that helped me determine to pursue a career as a financial analyst, which is my ultimate goal of earning both a bachelor's and a master's degree in finance. I have prepared for this career as diligently as I could, attempting to involve myself in financial endeavors as much as possible.

In high school I was elected to school treasurer during each of my final school years, and learned about basic concepts of budgeting and money management. While I completed my associate degree at Morris County College I was able to work part time as a bank teller and expose myself to the professional world of finance. In the coming months I will be accepting an internship at Chase Manhattan bank which should broaden my knowledge of finance and give me more practical experience to prepare for my goal.

My tenure at Morris County has been extremely helpful in helping me acclimate myself with financial concepts that I hope to put to use in a bachelor's degree program in this subject. I excelled in a number of math classes and would often stay after class to engage my professors in discussion about our coursework as well as developments in both the private and public sectors that affected the world of finance.

I chose not to major in finance while completing my core classes because I realized that it would be one of the final times for me to learn subjects not related to my career decision, which is why I majored in humanities/social science s instead. Yet I still was able to take a variety of subjects that directly pertain to majoring in finance, particularly those that deal with the ramifications of the social climate that directly affected the contemporary financial situation in the U.S.

And the rest of the globe. I believe that this combination of professional experience working in the banking industry and the background information I have learned about various factors that directly.