Where there is career re-engineering there is Mawinder. Please give T-Bag more advice on how you changed your profession several times in one year.

All the information here is for academic paper chasers to each other. Why should anyone give you a job just because you have a CFA. That is nonesense.

My advice to you is parachute to the career wish to pursue. I am not sure what IT profession, which is equivalent to I'm in the agricultural sector, or what prop trading is.

This is how parachuting works. You are a banker/ accountant and you want to get into the development sector(I hate this stupid NGO terms). You look and apply for a job in the sector that is closely related to what your doing so finance department at the NGO or something. Then move to the area of interest within the organization having had some experience.

In your case you should just apply from a Job you are interested in. If you have a passion as you claim, you probably know a lot about the work it involves. Infact you can probably take a junior level or entry level position if you really want to change careers and parachute out once you have some experience in the field.

Save the money and don't waste it on degrees that do not make a difference.