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Also, one thing that I noticed with classmates - getting into the first role may not feel easy but it is much easier than getting your first role in a new career. Particularly if your rationale for the career change is that, like me, you got veered away from using maths. The "you can do loads of things" mantra is true for now but there is a limitation on bouncing around careers before firms avoid you.Certainly proceed with caution but I'd doubt you will avoid being starry eyed at some stage even if you do read up on stuff here. It will happen at some point - happened to me in my first role as the company kissed my ass and I'd never had full time work before. Although when they screwed me over and changed my role to cut costs I snapped out of it pretty quickly.It happens at different phases with different people. I saw it with people in my MSc when they read salaries on jobs they applied for - even when it was stuff that used financial maths the individual in question was often unsuited - there were no entry requirements for my MSc other than to have gotten 2:1 in a degree where at least 1 module involved maths. So in addition to a class that included a guy that had done a stochastic calculus project on Brownian motion with memory in his undergrad, and another guy that was a derivatives practitioner, some people were graduates of English degrees that could just about differentiate but that thought they'd get "credits" to become an actuary through this MSc (an actuary I know refers to people like this as "exemptions gimps"). I'd doubt any got into anything even finance, never mind risk, related.Just hope the "starry eyed" phase doesn't interfere with your career - in my case I got over it in my own time, but I've seen people enter into ventures and courses that waste their time and where they throw away good jobs and careers because of starry eyed optimism and find they can't get back to where they were when they realise they made the wrong move. And some had maths degrees - unfortunately moving away from using your degree can look like you were veered away because you weren't good enough, and when that role you want to get back into us mathematical that prejudice is very hard to beat (happened to me with quant finance where I was moved out of it due to the firm I was with changing strategy). These little details tend to get glossed over when economists comment on unemployment rates.
Also, one thing that I noticed with classmates - getting into the first role may not feel easy but it is much easier than getting your first role in a new career. Particularly if your rationale for the career change is that, like me, you got veered away from using maths. The "you can do loads of things" mantra is true for now but there is a limitation on bouncing around careers before firms avoid you.
Certainly proceed with caution but I'd doubt you will avoid being starry eyed at some stage even if you do read up on stuff here. It will happen at some point - happened to me in my first role as the company kissed my ass and I'd never had full time work before. Although when they screwed me over and changed my role to cut costs I snapped out of it pretty quickly.
It happens at different phases with different people. I saw it with people in my MSc when they read salaries on jobs they applied for - even when it was stuff that used financial maths the individual in question was often unsuited - there were no entry requirements for my MSc other than to have gotten 2:1 in a degree where at least 1 module involved maths. So in addition to a class that included a guy that had done a stochastic calculus project on Brownian motion with memory in his undergrad, and another guy that was a derivatives practitioner, some people were graduates of English degrees that could just about differentiate but that thought they'd get "credits" to become an actuary through this MSc (an actuary I know refers to people like this as "exemptions gimps"). I'd doubt any got into anything even finance, never mind risk, related.
Just hope the "starry eyed" phase doesn't interfere with your career - in my case I got over it in my own time, but I've seen people enter into ventures and courses that waste their time and where they throw away good jobs and careers because of starry eyed optimism and find they can't get back to where they were when they realise they made the wrong move. And some had maths degrees - unfortunately moving away from using your degree can look like you were veered away because you weren't good enough, and when that role you want to get back into us mathematical that prejudice is very hard to beat (happened to me with quant finance where I was moved out of it due to the firm I was with changing strategy). These little details tend to get glossed over when economists comment on unemployment rates.
