Comment by Alien1Being
5 hours 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.
> 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.
Why 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.
prestigious.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.