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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by hessenwolf on Monday June 13, 2011 @04:08AM (#2648441)
I am working in finance because the professors I knew were not salty enough. I have to do a lot of scut work, and I really am not on an impressive salary, but I see massive real-world problems on a daily basis and get a live view of the things that really matter in the world economy.

Running trading algorithms would be pretty pants, but managing risk is not quite so ignoble.

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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by StrawberryFrog on Monday June 13, 2011 @06:33AM (#2648613)
the professors I knew were not salty enough. I have to do a lot of scut work

What?

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Re:All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad by hessenwolf on Thursday June 16, 2011 @05:55AM (#2660648)
Not Salty - lacking in flavour, meaning lacking life experience, naive, uninteresting.

scut work: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/scut+work Noun 1. scut work - trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work" shitwork chore, job, task - a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"

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