<r>@Dominic & DEfanPlease have a look at the recent placements of Finance PhDs from LSE:<URL url="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/finance/prospectiveStudents/phdFinance/jobMarketCandidates.aspx#generated-subheading3I"><LINK_TEXT text="http://www2.lse.ac.uk/finance/prospecti ... bheading3I">http://www2.lse...

<t>Hi Guys, I am a new associate working on in Hybrids Desk in a good institution (but not TopTier) in NYC. As you can imagine - although (given my background) I am quite strong in theoretical quantitative finance, I know far too little about innovative Exotics and Hybrid Payoffs. During my studies ...

Next year should be the year of Equities, so I advise you Equities Desk at Morgan Stanley.

<t>APS, my friend...If you already decided that you want to abandon your PhD - it's pointless to discuss it further...What I sometimes observe here at Wilmott forums is that there are people, who are coming to the forum and are "asking" a question about their career, education etc.and then we reply ...

<t>Another comment:If you just know (sometimes people simply know it), that it's like impossible that you graduate for some reason (you know that you are not good researcher; your supervisor hates you and will make it impossible; you are a type that never finishes anything; you know that you will ha...

Gosh... I don't understand then... If you want to work in time-series analysis, do it! Noone will be angry on you because you are doing the research you are interested in. And I don't believe that you don't have any guys who are interested in T-S in your department...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DominicConnorI expose my ignorance here, but isn't "Bayesian estimation of nested discrete choice models," ,what a lot of us call game theory ?That has some attraction to hiring managers.This has nothing to do with the game theory...APS - don't be stupid - finish your P...

@JDQuant - So why you don't you join this company - that would save you some time on your PhD etc.@EscapeArtist999 - I think you have a PM since last weekend!

JDQuant - if you already decided what you want to do you don't need to ask us for advice

First of all please write what is the aim of it?If this is just for entertainment in your free time I would suggest something like this (in your neighbourhood of course): Mary Ward Centre

<t>JDQuant: You are repeating names of JPM and GS... Whether you get there or not depends on luck as well - even if you finish a PhD from a Top School a chance of getting to a particular firm is low... Getting to THE INDUSTRY is more likely, but you should not really think about particular firms.Als...

If I were him I would definitely take MBA from Duke.

@Anthis - "20+" means 20 or more...

<t>People usually think that there is only one proper career path for them and sometimes this turns out very depressing when they are not able to start as they imagined... The truth is that your career life is like 20years+. Even if you start in poor place at the beginning, but you are really really...

I agree with EscapeArtist. Level one candidacy is something what you should not even mention in your CV, because people will be laughing at you! (really!)