Trader Job

[BrilloPad]

I've never understood people who program without enjoying it. It has to be one of the most arduous, tortuous, and frustrating occupations short of doing real things like coalmining, unblocking sewers, or being a paramedic.

I love it myself, yet it still drives me to distraction on a daily basis. Voluntarily dealing, on a constant basis, with such a degree of frustration and intellectual challenge without actually enjoying it sounds like madness.

Still, when you get it working, and the code is beautiful...

I enjoy the end result and what the program can do for the users.

I have never understood those who see technology as an entity in itself. I see it as a means to an end.

[HairyArsedBloke]

A lot of people will be turning to trading in the years to come to make a living.

Up and down the country you will hear the cry "3 for a fiver" or the like.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Take the job! The IT industry is dead and full of dull maintenance work.
Just hope youre not trading CDOs!

Apparently they're crying out for recruits in the Lion-Taming Sector.

[SantaClaus]

I have an interview for a role as a Trader this week. I fired off a CV ages ago and it's come back with a positive response.

Could be a bad time to get into it but it's gotta be worth a go - better than programming?

Take the job! The IT industry is dead and full of dull maintenance work.
Just hope youre not trading CDOs!

[The Lone Gunman]

I've never understood people who program without enjoying it. It has to be one of the most arduous, tortuous, and frustrating occupations short of doing real things like coalmining, unblocking sewers, or being a paramedic.

I love it myself, yet it still drives me to distraction on a daily basis. Voluntarily dealing, on a constant basis, with such a degree of frustration and intellectual challenge without actually enjoying it sounds like madness.

Still, when you get it working, and the code is beautiful...

WHS.
70% is boring. Just writing the basic algorithm that it all hangs on in just plain old slog.
The other 30% is frustration and torture. Headscratching figuring it out.
But it is the problem solving that I love and finding an elegant solution is what drives me.
When it all works.............. well............... if you never experienced it I cant describe it.
I do get a huge rush when I see certain aircraft fly by and know there is a piece of me in there.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I've never understood people who program without enjoying it. It has to be one of the most arduous, tortuous, and frustrating occupations short of doing real things like coalmining, unblocking sewers, or being a paramedic.

I love it myself, yet it still drives me to distraction on a daily basis. Voluntarily dealing, on a constant basis, with such a degree of frustration and intellectual challenge without actually enjoying it sounds like madness.

Still, when you get it working, and the code is beautiful...

The ancient Greeks viewed all froms of Labour as being detrmental - howver the worse occuptions were deemed to be those involving overt mental effort rather than physical.

[NickFitz]

...programmer... a pretty depressing career to follow unless there is an enjoyment factor involved.

I've never understood people who program without enjoying it. It has to be one of the most arduous, tortuous, and frustrating occupations short of doing real things like coalmining, unblocking sewers, or being a paramedic.

I love it myself, yet it still drives me to distraction on a daily basis. Voluntarily dealing, on a constant basis, with such a degree of frustration and intellectual challenge without actually enjoying it sounds like madness.

Still, when you get it working, and the code is beautiful...

[Stan.goodvibes]

The important thing to remember is that if you are going to go rogue and take the bank down several billion dollars, avoid the mistakes of the previous guys and make sure you stick at least a few mil in a bank account in Belize for yourself...

Oh, and probably a good idea to slip away to non-extradition land *before* the losses come to light...

[eliquant]

Trading is interesting but stressful, the rewards can be high.

Remember you have compliance and middle office checking your every move.

If you win then you get your good bonus if you lose its a long walk down shame avenue with no scope for starting afresh in the same sector.

[bodnobal]

What are you going to trade, mortgage debt? I wish you all the best in that career.

[thunderlizard]

It's probably a good time to be getting into it. If you mess up in the early days, you can put it down to general chaos.

[aussielong]

If you don't actually enjoy what you do as a programmer I think it is worth trying anything to get out. It's a pretty depressing career to follow unless there is an enjoyment factor involved.

I've been at it a long time and do enjoy it. It's always worth considering change and different options though.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I have an interview for a role as a Trader this week. I fired off a CV ages ago and it's come back with a positive response.

Could be a bad time to get into it but it's gotta be worth a go - better than programming?

Yeah, go for it. However, it can be very boring some times.

[cupidstunt]

I have an interview for a role as a Trader this week. I fired off a CV ages ago and it's come back with a positive response.

Could be a bad time to get into it but it's gotta be worth a go - better than programming?

If you don't actually enjoy what you do as a programmer I think it is worth trying anything to get out. It's a pretty depressing career to follow unless there is an enjoyment factor involved.

[aussielong]

I have an interview for a role as a Trader this week. I fired off a CV ages ago and it's come back with a positive response.

Could be a bad time to get into it but it's gotta be worth a go - better than programming?