One of my colleagues was transferring to our Asia/Pacific office, and at the going away party, while chatting with some folks from client connectivity and algo sales. We talked about the different career paths, and I was really looking for ideas to migrate into a more client facing role, without sacrificing my technical background:smt024. I was always eager to work with a group that contributed to the revenue stream and could see the fruits of their labor. Not quite driven by the monetary factor, as UNIX infrastucture roles are decently compensated, (maybe not like Quants), but I yearned to be closer to the end product. Anyhow, to make a long story short, I left the bar that night with a drive to get into something more quantative. This is when I decided to change my major from Baruch's CIS program to QMM, then I followed up with google searches to learn more about anything related and viola.. I landed back at Baruch. A couple posts about my aspirations and the feedback was astronomical. Talk about a 360, I went searching on the whole wide web for knowledge and ended back at my own school. That adage that says something like "what you are looking for is always right in front of you" is certainly true.
As I told Dr. Stefanica, "QUANTNET is a success", there's absolutely no forum like this and I am very honored to be part of this community. I have learned so much since coming to this site. Kudos to all the contributors .=D>
