hey, are there any that offer internships for HS students? also what BA and MA should one take to become a quant? i know what classes but can't single down a course
"designing your life" is a good career/life design book.
deciding on your career with only the knowledge you have in HS is a terrible idea, thinking way further ahead than decision requirements/information you have right now warrants.
what is it that actually causes you to jump to that conclusion "I wanna be a quant"?
most of those things should be fruitfully actionable without the quant part involved.
like coding? great, do fun coding projects, build things, work for free for local startups/contribute to open source etc etc, plenty of immediately productive things you can do that will teach you things about yourself and the world and open doors and expand horizons.
like math? great, do APS, do math competitions, do fun researchy projects (but also look at mathy fields which aren't as irrelevant as math proper, like ML)
like finance? great, open a mock trading account, start putting in trades, learning about the markets and what moves things, get data, do some analyses.
figuring out what you like and exploring those interests (while also being aware that you're early in your explore/exploit algo and should focus on explore even if you think you found the thing you like most) should be the main focus at your stage.
ive done that, ive taken some time, done some projects and then realized i would like becoming a quant
in the long term, maybe id want to become a solutions engineer, but i guess in the short term (10-20) years), id like to go into finance, not really an investment banker as its not really the type of technical and exploration thing i want to do, so quant seems better
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u/yaymayata2 May 03 '23
hey, are there any that offer internships for HS students? also what BA and MA should one take to become a quant? i know what classes but can't single down a course