Re:Ask HN: How to break into finance from being a web dev
by ccajas on Friday April 07, 2017 @04:58PM
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This is something that also interests me, as a web developer with a mostly LAMP background. I live in Chicago and getting tired of just doing web dev for small business clients. I have hobby experience with C# (3+ years, built several native apps).
I'd like to know how to break into the trading industry in Chicago with this background. So far I've been rejected to every C# job I've applied to and I cannot try C# at my job as I'm currently unemployed.
I'm not looking to do high frequency trading algorithms (seems well beyond my scope), but I'd be open to writing finance-related tools that aren't performance intensive, if that makes any sense.
I'd like to know how to break into the trading industry in Chicago with this background. So far I've been rejected to every C# job I've applied to and I cannot try C# at my job as I'm currently unemployed.
I'm not looking to do high frequency trading algorithms (seems well beyond my scope), but I'd be open to writing finance-related tools that aren't performance intensive, if that makes any sense.