>Be me nanoscience studentAlmost finished my degree, good marks and a few offers for postgraduate programs. A master here and there, etc. Have a teacher offer me to take me to the LHC at Gineva for research. Things look peachy.>Have a maths and physics friend tell me about finance and quants.Apparently hard sciences students like him and myself are of interest to big companies to become analists due to the amount of hard math and programming we do.>Tells me to look into it>I do>See a few open internships and undergrad programs open. Not sure.I've heard you can make hella money here but I'm a bit skeptical. I feel likeI might be putting my future at risk by aiming for a career that's volatile and uncertain. I don't want to put all my eggs into one basket but I also feel like it'd be hard to keep doors open once i graduate.Suggestions? Not posting in /sci/ because nobody would actually suggest anything useful. Any advice is welcome.
>>62641999I think it all depends on where you come from. Where I live, you need a referral to get a job in the financial sector because it’s a very elitist field.
