Serving the Quantitative Finance Community
Why finance?
This is a frequently asked question to a physicist who wants career change to finance. Although it seems a simple question, improper answer to this question might become a ground for rejection, because the interviewer might feel that the candidate does not have solid motivation for getting into finance. What do you think is the proper answer to this question? Although physicists are in demand in finance field, the employers might feel strange that one wants to quit physics and pursue radical career change to finance.