I did a quick job search on google on Friday evening to check what's available out there now the summer is over. Needless to say I was disappointed by what I saw.
My default search phrase is "equity strategist". For some reason I still think my background is best suited to it. But that does not appear to be the case anymore. While I have grown older, my skill level has been stuck at the Associate level i.e. number crunching and writing. At my age, I should have graduated to marketing to clients and speaking to the media. In other words, I am not young enough to be an associate but not have appropriate skills and experiences to be considered for a higher level position. To emphasize this point, I interviewed for an Associate equity strategist position at RBC in 2012, and even back then, my age and experience implicitly became an issue. In 2017 I applied for a more senior position at UBS private bank, and I was not even considered for the position.
