A good friend of mine became a quant simply because they where the only people r...

		dagw on Sept 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Algorithmic Trading is Not High Frequency Trading A good friend of mine became a quant simply because they where the only people remotely interested in hiring someone with an MSc in math and then letting them actually work with interesting high level math. The money or any actual desire to work in finance never really factored into it.