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Comment by shipman05

6 days ago

Everyone I know who studied astrophysics ended up in Fintech doing data science anyway. "illusion of choice"

Well there is Brian May, guitarist from Queen, who finished his astrophysics PhD in 2007 but he is probably an outlier!

Yup. 2/3rds of my Physics class went straight into banking.

I remember secretly judging them at the time, but as the years wore on I came to realise how wise/scared they actually were..