I don’t know anything about finance as a career other than what I see at the Wealth Management company which handles my investments. So I’m coming from a place of complete ignorance. However, the various comments here got me curious, so I went to the internet to see what’s out there. Here’s a link to a pretty balanced article looking at the current state of the field and where the author thinks it’s going. The article is 2-3 years old, but since it takes the long view both retrospectively and for the future, the analysis still applies. See what you think: