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> For instance, I've interviewed a lot of financial ops people who think they're on the ladder to becoming a trader

I think it is definitely possible to know. My college friends with parents in tech certainly knew.

When I was in college, I looked over H1B data to get a sense of what was really going on. The conclusion: finance, consulting, law, all vastly overrated in compensation unless you are doing quantitative finance or have a very rare job.

Medicine and tech, appropriately rated for comp.