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I am a 2nd year DPhil student with a recent growing interest in the quant space. My background is in Physics. I've decided that academia is not for me and am now looking elsewhere. Quant seems very interesting because I can make use of what I have learned over the past 6 years and make money
What is a likely career progression for someone with my background in quant finance? My concern, at least from my research, is that data science roles in quant has a relatively low ceiling given the specific nature of its job, and that it is hard to progress after a while. For example, it would be difficult for someone in data science to become a fund manager. Is this view valid, if at all? Though I enjoy working on the technical side of things, I hope to eventually move away and into more managerial positions. I don't want to be a 50 year old still writing and debugging code. I'm wondering how possible this is in the quant space?
Otherwise, thinking about getting an MBA and getting into private equity.
I should admit I don't have a strong background in programming (no C/C++). However I do know Python and Matlab well, or at least I use them everyday for analysis. My DPhil in on MRI Physics. My maths these days is also a bit slow as I haven't needed PDE, ODE in a while, but I'm confident that I can pick things up quickly and learn new items should I need to. I graduated from a top school in the US (in Physics) with a full scholarship and now at Oxbridge in the UK also with a full merit based scholarship.
I am a 2nd year DPhil student with a recent growing interest in the quant space. My background is in Physics. I've decided that academia is not for me and am now looking elsewhere. Quant seems very interesting because I can make use of what I have learned over the past 6 years and make money
What is a likely career progression for someone with my background in quant finance? My concern, at least from my research, is that data science roles in quant has a relatively low ceiling given the specific nature of its job, and that it is hard to progress after a while. For example, it would be difficult for someone in data science to become a fund manager. Is this view valid, if at all? Though I enjoy working on the technical side of things, I hope to eventually move away and into more managerial positions. I don't want to be a 50 year old still writing and debugging code. I'm wondering how possible this is in the quant space?
Otherwise, thinking about getting an MBA and getting into private equity.
I should admit I don't have a strong background in programming (no C/C++). However I do know Python and Matlab well, or at least I use them everyday for analysis. My DPhil in on MRI Physics. My maths these days is also a bit slow as I haven't needed PDE, ODE in a while, but I'm confident that I can pick things up quickly and learn new items should I need to. I graduated from a top school in the US (in Physics) with a full scholarship and now at Oxbridge in the UK also with a full merit based scholarship.
