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> Tread carefully - intellectualizing love is existentially rocky territory.

I am aware of this. Now after reading your comment I need also a self-confidence and optimism to all that. I am just not sure if I can handle all this. I mean I am smart but not genius for sure. Is it worth it to persist in this field even if I have no talent in mathematics?

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Yes - as I mentioned regardless of quants there will always be heavy demand for mathematically-minded developers in finance. As far as enterprise development goes, it's a great (well funded) industry to work in. Technologies tend to focus on proven fault-tolerant methodologies - think .NET/Oracle stacks instead of Ruby/Cassandra or whatever the flavor of the month is on the internets.

Don't sell yourself short on mathematics before undergraduate - the nature of mathematical talent changes the deeper you get into a particular topic. But yes: if your goal is to become a quant, do not think it will be easy to get into the industry without a PhD.

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