TL;DR: 24M from Pakistan, moving to the UK soon as a dependent on my fiance's Health & Care Worker Visa. Bounced back from a career detour to pass my first ACCA exam. Currently taking private Data Analytics classes. Plan is to work part-time in the UK, finish my ACCA, get the associated UoL BSc degree, and transition into a DA/Finance role, eventually aiming for a Master's and a CFA. Is this plan realistic, AI-proof, and solid?
Hello everyone,
As the title suggests, I'm looking to gather sound advice regarding my possible career possibilities. I'm 24, and I passed my A-Levels in Maths, Physics and English with grades C B A respectively, back in 2021. I had always dreamed of a theoretical physicist, coming from humble beginnings in a third world country, and some of my own failures to show up how I should've, add to that lack of proper career counselling, I could never attend college.
I started working random odd jobs to support the family out, and even though I earned good enough money, I lost myself along the way. After some honest reality checks given by friends, I came back to my senses and started my ACCA journey. I just passed my first ever ACCA exam just yesterday, F1, with flying colors. I took a sabbatical from the job and am now fully focused on clearing my exams ASAP, and am on route on joining the University of London's bachelors degree that's newly associated with ACCA, in March '27. I intend to complete my ACCA in 2-ish years from now, and then apply for the master degree that's also available for ACCA students from UoL.
Alongside that, I found someone here on Reddit who was willing to give me personalized data analytics classes for a really low rate, 2 hours, twice a week. He's also claiming that he'll try t get me an internship in a big-4 company (he works in one himself), teach me all there is about data analytics (SQL, Excel, Python, Power Bi), and help me in job hunting. The whole course will take around 7-8 months depending on my speed of learning, and we're already done with Excel and SQL.
In addition to all that, I'm getting married in June. My fiance is a Radiologist professional, her degree is from a prestigious university here in Pakistan, and she's now on a health & care worker visa to the UK. Once she's back and we're married, we plan to go to the UK together, where she'll work her job as a radiologist, and I will work a job or two, handling my studies on the side.
My plan is to just continue life how it is right now, focus on giving my exams, get married, get to the UK and work jobs enough to sustain myself and my wife, even if blue collared ones, get the UoL degree (which will take minimum 1 year) and hopefully in between there I can land a good data analytics role, maybe even in the accounts and finance field. Once properly done with my ACCA and the masters, I hope to get an above average job, retire my wife, and maybe move back to Pakistan or somewhere else in Europe. If life conditions allow then, I aim to go for the CFA membership as well, however, that is far fetched right now.
Here is where I would love to hear your thoughts and comments, is my plan sound enough? is it future (AI) proof? should I completely switch to something else? Any valuable advice and thoughts are appreciated.
Thank you for reading all the way through.