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Wall Street has always recognized how important good talent is. That's why they pay executives and fund managers so much. What's new is the realization they need good software talent.

I'd never work for a financial firm again. It's just too hard to get up in the morning so I can go into work and make columns of numbers a little bit different from yesterday. Boring as hell.

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Yep. Financial firms pay good money for a good reason: they need to get some of the smartest people in the world and pay them to do really boring stuff.

Medicine, likewise, pays well for a good reason: they need to get some of the smartest people in the world and pay them to do repetitive and mostly-kinda-yeechy stuff.

Academia is where you get some of the smartest people in the world and let them do stuff they actually want to do. This is why it's the only smart-people profession that doesn't pay very well.

borring? really. if your doing middle/back office yeah but front office work is anything but borring. infact out of the 20 years of coding, nothing compares to finance in the interesting/dynamic environment category.

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