I have to second this. If you consider the industry very "interesting" then go for it, but I would say think wisely about it. Finance is one of the most self-

I have to second this. If you consider the industry very "interesting" then go for it, but I would say think wisely about it. Finance is one of the most self-indulgent industries out there (more so even then something like Art), you will be spending a lot of time with a lot of people that spend their time thinking about either how to make money (usually trying to find a way of cheating the system) or people who have already made their money and are now preachers of the free market. I would recommend that you go check them out for a week if you can, especially if you are new to finance. It's not for everybody. Check out a few of the popular blogs (FT Alphaville is a good one) and see if you would be capable of living in that world. The same way that hackers love to code and talk nothing else, quants talk markets and nothing else.