Sam Harris
Space Systems Engineer
- Joined
- 9/27/07
- Messages
- 50
- Points
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Hi,
As some of you know, I am an engineer and an officer in the Air Force. I am half way through Columbia's online MFE and live in New Mexico. I have my resume posted on Columbia's MonsterTRAK and got a call from a small defense contractor a month ago wanting me to come work for them. I wasn't particularly interested, since I forsee a transition to finance in my near future, but they paid for the hotel, rental car, and plane, so what's to lose other than 27hrs of my life?
They want me to be an intel engineer 40hrs a week for the Army Test & Evaluation Center--no surprise there. But the second part of their offer was totally unexpected. After my 40hrs a week are done, they want me to... run a hedge fund they want to start. Their HF strategy is very creative and industry-specific. They just need someone who knows how to execute and magnify returns. And I would be paid a pretty standard HF MD pay scale.
The base pay is exceedingly competitive (about 2x industry standard) and the total package includes a lot of very valuable benefits including their paying a lump sum for the entire cost of my MFE.
What do you think?
As some of you know, I am an engineer and an officer in the Air Force. I am half way through Columbia's online MFE and live in New Mexico. I have my resume posted on Columbia's MonsterTRAK and got a call from a small defense contractor a month ago wanting me to come work for them. I wasn't particularly interested, since I forsee a transition to finance in my near future, but they paid for the hotel, rental car, and plane, so what's to lose other than 27hrs of my life?
They want me to be an intel engineer 40hrs a week for the Army Test & Evaluation Center--no surprise there. But the second part of their offer was totally unexpected. After my 40hrs a week are done, they want me to... run a hedge fund they want to start. Their HF strategy is very creative and industry-specific. They just need someone who knows how to execute and magnify returns. And I would be paid a pretty standard HF MD pay scale.
The base pay is exceedingly competitive (about 2x industry standard) and the total package includes a lot of very valuable benefits including their paying a lump sum for the entire cost of my MFE.
What do you think?