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Here most local STEM PhDs try to get into finance. This is largely due to lack of funding for science and poor opportunities for PhDs. Why be a poorly paid post
by Alien1Being 9d ago
Here most local STEM PhDs try to get into finance.
This is largely due to lack of funding for science and poor opportunities for PhDs. Why be a poorly paid postdoc when Jane Street is offering a million USD signup bonus ?
PhDs from poorer overseas do try to get related jobs here, mainly to be able to get a permanent resident visa.
- oefrha 9d ago> Why be a poorly paid postdoc when Jane Street is offering a million USD signup bonus? One reason is despising that line of work. Quant firms were pummeling my @prestigious.edu inbox throughout my PhD and I fucking hated those parasites. Well, jokes on me if AI shatters my current career. Btw a former classmate Caroline Ellison who went to Jane Street eventually landed in prison, lol.
- irishcoffee 9d agoWhy put @prestigious.edu and name a famous person? Why not just say you went to Stanford? Lots and lots of people have gone to Stanford.
- oefrha 9d agoprestigious.edu isn’t Stanford; went to a different school for PhD. And the prison bit is just something funny about Jane Street (that sort of vindicates my view of these people) that I edited in later, didn’t think much about it.