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by shipman05 128 days ago
Everyone I know who studied astrophysics ended up in Fintech doing data science anyway. "illusion of choice"
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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..

I met a few in MarTech as well…