> I've always considered my peers to be physical engineers (e.g. civil, mechanical, electrical), not finance or medicine people. The key question is what profe

> I've always considered my peers to be physical engineers (e.g. civil, mechanical, electrical), not finance or medicine people. The key question is what profession has a name that rings similar, but what are your other options as a fairly clever person with a quantitative streak. In the US, finance is an obvious example. > Most people who get a degree in finance don't end up working in finance, at least that's the case in Australia and New Zealand from the people I know. I'm not an expert on OZ/NZ, but guessing that's because the financial sector in the US is several orders of magnitude larger.