grass is always greener though. I have friends that moved into finance from elsewhere and regretted it quickly. For some of them, the pay boost was drastic enou

grass is always greener though. I have friends that moved into finance from elsewhere and regretted it quickly. For some of them, the pay boost was drastic enough to suffer through the misery. That pay change isn't so meaningful when moving from one high paying career to another. As an aside, the software engineer complaints about technical interviews always makes me laugh. Finance ones were even worse. Mostly useless and much more intense and time consuming. Engineering is tough because it's hard to point back at prior performance in a tangible way. Anyone can sit in a large corporation and write some for loops. It's much easier to hide in the background in software. Trading was easier to vet: "someone gave me $30m and I didn't lose any of it".