If you are asking about such general concepts as "accounting" or "banking" you still have a lot of research to do.
So I started to type out a super long reply talking all about accounting careers. There is too much to cover and too little known about what you really want to do. If you want accounting then your "surest" shot at success is starting in public accounting and getting your CPA. I know *some* successful people who didn't but magnitudes more who did it this way.
I'm a CPA, been doing accounting about 12 years now. Spent over 9 years in public accounting at a Big 4 firm. That is 9 years going dozens and dozens of company's and auditing them. You get a good feel for the background of the people at the top and very few did it with no public accounting background.
I'll add one other thing. Long term if the cost of labor remains extremely different in countries like India and China compared to the US and they continue to pump out far more college graduates than us then I think accounting is ripe for off shoring at the lower levels in large firms (which is were the money is). So if you want to be successful long term you need to be in a position of management or very key judgement.
Small and medium sized business won't necessarily do this but accounting pay at small and medium sized business is awful. You don't get rich being a CPA but they only way to make good money in an accounting department is working for the big companies.
Damn this reply is getting long again. If you have specific questions I'd be happy to answer.
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