>>12247189Pivot to finance. Any shift to finance will be more profitable but you should aim for high finance i.e. wealth management and investment banking. The industry is already recruiting heavily from people with quantitative backgrounds so all you have to do is study a couple of topics and orient your resume in that direction so that you are a more attractive candidate.
The benefit, aside from the top tier compensation and benefits, are many:
>Unlimited upside. In finance there is no cap for your salary. You can make as much as your talent allows you.>limited downside. Even if you are the worst banker the world has ever seen, having that title will guarantee you a comfortable career. Other jobs have a market that is limited to certain industries thriving, but if your skill is business, financial and risk modelling then your job market is the entire world. In your bank you will be modelling cashflows, risks and prices but if you get booted then guess what, even a fucking make-up company needs people to model and manage their cash and risks. Because the one thing that all companies have to work with is money, so if your expertise is handling money you are an expert in everything.>Real impact. The reality is that most workers (even top workers like engineers) don't actually make any decisions. So when a project is successful no one will really say it was the engineer's who brought in that money for the company. It will always be the directors at either corporate or the fund which owns your company who pitched the project. If you want any glory, you need to be at that level. If that made sense to you then I suggest you start researching your move immediately. I figured this out way too late in my college career (late junior) and while I managed to land a job in the industry (the hardest part), it is not the ideal job that I would have preferred. Still, the job is mostly excel modelling and pitching to the bank's executives.
