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Dear KillingField,Thank you very much for your response. It is very helpful.I have some follow up questions, I hope you do not mind.1) You are right, I should consider internship. The main problem is that I cannot afford significant salary drop right now. And I will be looking for 150k starting salary, which is unrealistic for intern. I probably should adjust my expectations. Do you agree?8) Thank you for this advice. Quantitate developer seems like a possible route. Will it be difficult to transfer to analyst position later? From what I wrote about myself it might look like I am more like a coding monkey, which might be what I did on my first postdoc (not on my phd and my current job). However, one of the reason I look into finances direction is that I realized that I enjoy math more than physics and numerical methods, so the idea that I might need to study new branches of math motivates me. My main weakness in math I believe --- stochastic calculus/stochastic differential equations (I know plenty about ODEs and PDEs, some probability and statistics, lots of linear algebra and calculus, some functional analysis, some abstract algebra, some differential geometry, some lie groups & symmetries theory, some perturbation theory, some optimization - I believe most of it is not relevant). In any rate, I will try to transfer to analyst position if I be able to break in finances world...Thank you!
Dear KillingField,
Thank you very much for your response. It is very helpful.
I have some follow up questions, I hope you do not mind.
1) You are right, I should consider internship. The main problem is that I cannot afford significant salary drop right now. And I will be looking for 150k starting salary, which is unrealistic for intern. I probably should adjust my expectations. Do you agree?
8) Thank you for this advice. Quantitate developer seems like a possible route. Will it be difficult to transfer to analyst position later? From what I wrote about myself it might look like I am more like a coding monkey, which might be what I did on my first postdoc (not on my phd and my current job). However, one of the reason I look into finances direction is that I realized that I enjoy math more than physics and numerical methods, so the idea that I might need to study new branches of math motivates me. My main weakness in math I believe --- stochastic calculus/stochastic differential equations (I know plenty about ODEs and PDEs, some probability and statistics, lots of linear algebra and calculus, some functional analysis, some abstract algebra, some differential geometry, some lie groups & symmetries theory, some perturbation theory, some optimization - I believe most of it is not relevant). In any rate, I will try to transfer to analyst position if I be able to break in finances world...
Thank you!
