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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andy Nguyen" data-source="post: 95506" data-attributes="member: 1">My experience is that you will benefit in the long term by staying and finish your PhD, getting your programming skills to ninja level, get involved in finance projects through research/unpaid/industry projects. If you have some good computational skills, ask around here and I'm sure some people/employers would need help, especially if they are from small firms.My logic is that Operation Research opens a lot more doors outside of finance should Wall Street go bust which is not impossible.Focus on the "skill sets" which is what they hire you for, not the type of niche research you do which is likely academic in nature since this is a PhD program.</blockquote>