Re:Companies worry more about access to software developers ...
by dunpeal on Monday September 10, 2018 @03:10AM
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> I've always considered my peers to be physical engineers (e.g. civil, mechanical, electrical), not finance or medicine people.
The key question is what profession has a name that rings similar, but what are your other options as a fairly clever person with a quantitative streak.
In the US, finance is an obvious example.
> Most people who get a degree in finance don't end up working in finance, at least that's the case in Australia and New Zealand from the people I know.
I'm not an expert on OZ/NZ, but guessing that's because the financial sector in the US is several orders of magnitude larger.
The key question is what profession has a name that rings similar, but what are your other options as a fairly clever person with a quantitative streak.
In the US, finance is an obvious example.
> Most people who get a degree in finance don't end up working in finance, at least that's the case in Australia and New Zealand from the people I know.
I'm not an expert on OZ/NZ, but guessing that's because the financial sector in the US is several orders of magnitude larger.