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cavediver
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02-24-2011 9:39 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Adequate
02-24-2011 8:35 AM

I have a Ph.D. in mathematics.
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Have you tried the banks? In particular, the derivative departments. Age is probably against you (I think you're mid-30s? They're ageist bastards as well as everything else), but if you find a good technical house and show up with good diff eqn skills and programming ability, it may swing it.
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ABE: I'm so long outside this line of work, it may be that everything is now Monte Carlo - so MC programming and knowledge would be the key.
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cavediver
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02-24-2011 10:40 AM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Dr Adequate
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My current plan is to become a substitute teacher and I would rather do that than become a trader in derivatives
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Well, I've done both, and the teaching was certainly more fun! You don't need to be a trader - just a good old quantitative analyst (QA) can make a huge salary on the back of his maths/programming skills.
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02-24-2011 2:47 PM 		Reply to: Message 12 by Straggler
02-24-2011 2:09 PM

Re: Teaching
If you are considering teaching and it is something accessible to you now I would certainly recommend it for while. As a long term career I am less convinced. For reasons of pay, bureaucracy and the eventual tedium of teaching the same thing over and over I chose not to do it long term. But I can honestly say that I thoroughly enjoyed my stint as a maths/physics high school teacher.
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Yep, I can agree with every word there How long did you last?
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