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I work in finance, and I have an aesthetic love of finance. I just find it interesting. But most people who work in it have no interest whatsoever. They just want money. This means that it tends to be a joyless environment full of assholes, who think of the world in winner/loser terms.

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What do you find so aesthetically pleasing about it?

Is it the mathematics/model building. Portfolio allocation mean-covariance? Different hedging schemes? Black-Scholes model? Different numerical methods?

Is it the system design? Use of FP to model different contracts or concurrency and distributed trading systems?

Or is it the statistics and back-testing?

Personally, I like the aesthetics a bit but mostly I love the thrill of gambling and watching the market tick and the aesthetics of CNBC money-honey's.

I pity you. Between those assholes, and the image the media gives of your field because of them, you must realy feel lonely.

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