So, a little background on me, first: I recently graduated college about a year ago with a degree in economics. I went to school a little late so I'm several years behind a normal graduate, and am anxious to get on with a real career. Because of this, and because I've found out that the program I was in taught me almost zero marketable career skills, I am applying to an Information Systems graduate program in order to get a background in business intelligence which I think should give me the technical background to do actually apply some of the things I learned during my undergrad. 

So, unfortunately I have been sort of tracked along an accounting/compliance career path that I have no real interest in due to the nature of my last few internships/temp gigs I was able to land. I interned for both a decent-sized metropolitan city's accounting/auditing department, and a non-profit in "operations and compliance" (really accounting). Neither translate to much real experience, mostly data entry, and looking over files to verify information accuracy. I did get some work doing legal document review as well. I have no interest in continuing on an accounting or compliance career track, but all the bites I have been getting in my job search are in this field.

Fast-forward, I was able to obtain, through a recruiting agency, an interview with a large, very well established and highly reputable investment firm. It's a big deal. Just having their name on my resume will probably guarantee me interviews in the future; however, the role they want me to interview for is in compliance.

My question is, assuming I am offered a position, whether I should take a job that will track me further in that direction (which, again, I am not ultimately interested in) while I am earning my graduate degree for the next two years. The prestige of having that company's name on my resume would be a huge plus, and the reality is that I'm sure I will learn a lot, but I don't want to end up with another two years behind me, where the skills I'm learning will not balance with my ultimate career goals. 

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So, a little background on me, first: I recently graduated college about a year ago with a degree in economics. I went to school a little late so I'm several years behind a normal graduate, and am anxious to get on with a real career. Because of this, and because I've found out that the program I was in taught me almost zero marketable career skills, I am applying to an Information Systems graduate program in order to get a background in business intelligence which I think should give me the technical background to do actually apply some of the things I learned during my undergrad. 

So, unfortunately I have been sort of tracked along an accounting/compliance career path that I have no real interest in due to the nature of my last few internships/temp gigs I was able to land. I interned for both a decent-sized metropolitan city's accounting/auditing department, and a non-profit in "operations and compliance" (really accounting). Neither translate to much real experience, mostly data entry, and looking over files to verify information accuracy. I did get some work doing legal document review as well. I have no interest in continuing on an accounting or compliance career track, but all the bites I have been getting in my job search are in this field.

Fast-forward, I was able to obtain, through a recruiting agency, an interview with a large, very well established and highly reputable investment firm. It's a big deal. Just having their name on my resume will probably guarantee me interviews in the future; however, the role they want me to interview for is in compliance.

My question is, assuming I am offered a position, whether I should take a job that will track me further in that direction (which, again, I am not ultimately interested in) while I am earning my graduate degree for the next two years. The prestige of having that company's name on my resume would be a huge plus, and the reality is that I'm sure I will learn a lot, but I don't want to end up with another two years behind me, where the skills I'm learning will not balance with my ultimate career goals. 

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