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I'm just looking for a bit of advice here. I'm a EE student at the ETH-Zurich and have very good grades. The thing is I don't really love what I do, not that I hate it, I just haven't found any area of Electrical Engineering that I can really see myself working on for a longer amount of time. I have therefore been tinkering with the idea of Quantitative Finance for a while, but I just don't want to go into it and hate it. I read the book "My Life as a Quant" and pretty much ended up telling myself "that's not what I want to become". It's not the workload that I mind and I find the idea of modeling financial systems reasonably interesting in itself. What bothers me is that it seems to be a very unfulfilling job, as an engineer you at least get to create something, but the impression i got from "My Life as a Quant", was that you are just a glorified programmer; you don't get the feeling of truly working on a project in a team and no-one really gives you credit for what you do. The only upside is that it pays a lot, but when you compare yourself with the traders who work a floor above you, you still feel like you don't earn that much.
So, someone please tell me otherwise (or confirm what I wrote)..
So, someone please tell me otherwise (or confirm what I wrote)..