[lordnacho]

The UK is just very skewed, due to finance. I studied in the UK, and there was a 6 month placement internship programme.

Engineering firm (industrial measurement) wanted to pay me $11K to be an engineer. Marketing department at a major semiconductor said £15K. So I took it. My friend at Goldmans got £37K.

So guess what I did after uni. I even met loads of people in finance with engineering degrees who said they were now earning multiples of what their previous bosses in engineering were earning.

Anyway, if you do have tech skills, finance is after that. Particularly right now as all the trading is going full auto. Amazingly there are still places that don't have straight through processing in place, so plenty of work. At the fun end there's a lot of demand for people who can write trading algos, which I did for a long time.

This is after years of IT people in finance being second class citizens.

[spbaar]

My understanding of finance as vaguely magical makes this easy to believe. Buy why does does engineering pay so low in UK?

[lordnacho]

Mystery to me as well. The only people I know from the course who do it live far from London. Even then I'm not sure how it makes sense when you could get a remote job.