Young, talented and fed-up: scientists tell their stories
I got my biomedical engineering PhD, and was a neurology professor at a top children&#x27;s hospital doing brain&#x2F;epilepsy research for a few years. Literally my dream job for most of my life. I left it two years ago due to many of the reasons listed, and got a job going quant&#x2F;algorithmic trading at a prop firm. I have never been happier, it is a hell of of a lot less stressful, I may actually pay off my student loans before I retire, we just bought a house, and obviously don&#x27;t regret it for a second. Most of my old friends at my old job are jealous; they have psych or bio backgrounds, and have more or less hit their ceilings in terms of where that skill set can take them. For engineers who know how to code (I was a core contributer to www.bci2000.org for a decade+), math is math, and it doesn&#x27;t matter if it is doing real time processing of brain signals or market data.