Today I went to the Georgia Tech Alumni Career Fair. It went pretty well, even though most of the companies were there for engineers or programmers. Once I was walking by a booth and this lady stops me and asks me what I'm about or whatever, and I said I doubted I was what they were looking for, and she said they have a wide variety of positions they are looking to fill and I might be surprised. Then she asked what my background was. "Finance MBA." "Oh... Er... [awkwardly] Yeah, we're pretty much looking for technical positions." I wanted to be like, "No shit, that's why I didn't stop to talk to you on my own," but that would be kind of rude, and it's not like I was in a hurry or anything, so I thanked her for talking to me anyway, and wished her good luck. After that I did go to a few technically oriented companies that I thought might be looking for finance also, basically starting with, "I don't want to waste your time, so if I say I'm a finance MBA, should I talk to you?" It actually worked pretty well. I even got a couple of leads on some very nifty looking technical jobs that someone with a background in financial modeling could fit right in to.

And, of course, there were several consulting firms and financial companies that were definitely looking for someone with my background, and were surprised and excited to see a finance/risk management MBA walk up. So I'm hopeful something from today will pan out, and I have the GSU business school fair next Monday left to go.