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Not new. A high school (early 2000s) physics teacher told us all that if we wanted to make money with physics, we should: 1. Get a physics PhD with 2. Some e
by Amorymeltzer 11y ago
Not new. A high school (early 2000s) physics teacher told us all that if we wanted to make money with physics, we should:
1. Get a physics PhD with
2. Some experience in computer modeling
3. Get hired by Wall Street
Even with the downturn in '08, I've seen no indication he was wrong.
- jorgecurio 11y agoPretty ironic since salaries for quants have gone down and getting replaced by outsourced overseas PHD graduate.
- adwf 11y agoYeah, half my friends from university graduated straight out of their Physics degree and went straight into finance. Didn't even bother with the Masters or PhD.
- hackuser 11y agoQuants were around before then. Look up the story of Long Term Capital Management (IIRC, they were quants).