I hold a PhD in Civil Engineering from Vanderbilt with my masters in CE from Berkeley and my undergraduate degree in CE from Auburn. I have a very strong background in probabilistic methods and optimization, and have taken coursework in structural mechanics, including dynamics (highly ODE based) and finite element methods (PDE based). I am currently an assistant professor at VU. What do I need to do to get hired by a bank?
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Do you understand that with the near collapse of the economy caused by the guys with PhDs in finance that there are tens of thousands of finance people that are unemployed.. And they have degrees in finance. Masters and doctorates too. They are all ahead of you for bank jobs.
And besides, the best they would put you into right now is a customer service job, commonly called a teller. You make more money now as an assistant professor. And with your degree, if you wanted to enter the work force as an engineer you could be making 100K in a year or two. Maybe even right off.
The finance guys who make multi million dollar bonuses are now almost broke and jobless. Financial engineering is a discredited field.
You have a great degree with a great future.