▪︎ Get a job in the financial services sector (maybe an asset management firm or an investment bank), as a chartered accountant (an ACA). It could be a tier-2 or tier-3 name, but make sure they have a policy of reimbursing exam fees.
▪︎ Using ACA, you only need to write one level of the CIS exam (ACS). Take a staff loan, write it, smash it, get refunded by your employer, repay the loan.
▪︎ Get a loan again to write CFA Level 1 (whether full payment or scholarship). Pass. Get refunded by your employer. Rinse and repeat till you smash the three levels.
▪︎ In about three to four years (an election cycle), you will have an ACA, a CIS, and aCFA.
▪︎ You can move to a tier-1 name. Fully equipped and "armed".
▪︎ Perhaps join a Big Four at a relatively senior level. A Senior Associate or Assistant Manager. Use the brand.
▪︎ Few years later, say two years, given the brand, you can go anywhere - project Finance o, private equity ni o, anything. You can even get a 'Manager' role in a tier-1 bank (a feat that takes almost a decade and half if you went through the general route).
▪︎ By year 6 or 7, you can attain almost any goal. And you probably spent zero or near zero capital of your own.
But note: it doesn't mean you won't do anything. You need to be passing to get refunded. If not, you enter a trap.
LEVERAGE.
“What matters to me isn’t whether I succeed, but whether I’ve found my own path,” says TsinghuaRen Huang Tianyu (China), an undergraduate student in the School of Software. His fascination with theory began with four Maxwell equations, revealing the power & beauty of pure logic.