<p>Any comments on whether you feel it’s worth sacrificing all that time and energy to make more money?</p>
<p>What is high finance?</p>
<p>Most people who are interested in “high finance” want to make large amounts of money, but they also want to be able to transition into positions with more control over a company’s direction. It’s not just about money, it’s also about being able to find work that really challenges you (which can open up after you prove yourself). The money is a large motivating factor, but you do have the ability to really make a company succeed.</p>
<p>its about money</p>
<p>*** is high finance?</p>
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<p>You also have the ability to run a company into the ground. Incidentally, this is far more common than actual success in running a business.</p>
<p>I’m surprised some of you haven’t come across the term high finance. Think bankers, traders, and fund managers.</p>
<p>Yeah, I wasn’t saying that everyone who gets into “high finance” actually succeeds. I was simply saying you have the possibility to direct/help a company.</p>
<p>is high tech?</p>
<p>When I think of high finance, I rarely think of bankers, traders or fund managers unless I’m in New York. Here on the west coast it’s mostly about venture capitalists and CFOs. I think that’s the biggest difference between the two coasts (and the midwest is probably all about CFOs that run the giant oil companies and agricultural conglomerates–and who are probably making more money nowadays that anybody on either coast).</p>
<p>Texas is not in the midwest.</p>
<p>Those were just examples. High finance includes, but is not limited to, bankers/traders/fund managers. VCs and CFOs are part of the list too.</p>
<p>You made up the term yourself.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as “high finance” - nice try, though.</p>
<p>Read A Random Walk Down Wall Street, just as an example. Just because you haven’t seen/heard it being used does not mean it does not exist.</p>
<p>So what’s ‘low finance’ then?</p>
<p>i think the OP is referring to the world in which executive/senior employees of financial firms live in…you know, the money, expensive apartments, cars, suits, dinners etc</p>