Yeah I tend to work on the latter, trying to get more on the former. I used to work in a color science company, and I wanted to see if it were possible to use CUDA for math optimizations, but the kind we did wasn't all that intense and there wasn't much traction in doing any kind of GPGPU work. I'm back in Finance now and I'm sure there are opportunities for it here, but the amount of red-tape we have here is so ridiculous(i.e. we can't even get source control for our C++ programs we manage).

I'll just have to push harder to learn :)