How Wall Street takes advantage of very confused Ivy League graduates

Re:How Wall Street takes advantage of very confused Ivy Leag... by ivan_ah on Friday February 17, 2012 @10:42AM (#3603676)

Seeing my analytically minded friends (physicists and mathematicians) go into banking and finance really pisses me off. I really hate the "it is just a job" mentality.

You have your life before you. You can do anything you want. Instead they lure them in with the six-figure salaries.

In fact I have made it my life mission to do something about it, because I feel that if we cut out the lifeblood (the new recruits) of "the system" then it will crumble.

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Re:How Wall Street takes advantage of very confused Ivy Leag... by ImprovedSilence on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:52PM (#3604229)

You can do anything you want. But you can do anything you want better, with a big salary.

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Re:How Wall Street takes advantage of very confused Ivy Leag... by sopooneo on Friday February 17, 2012 @05:56PM (#3605310)

Not if earning the big salary takes so much time that you can't dedicate yourself to something else. Like being in the lab researching cancer.

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