<p>listen heres the deal:
if you want to make a life out of business then do corp finance. these are the tools who envision themselves to one day be a bigshot CEO or executive and who will work 120/hours mindless grunt work to get there. theyre all about getting into leadership finance roles. there is something to be said about running a fortune 500 company or having people work for you but i personally do not see the attraction.</p>
<p>and no one jumps between consulting and banking. you only do this if you are a loser. the performers from both fields move to mostly private equity some hedge funds doing research</p>
<p>if you want to roll the dice and perhaps retire on a beach after 10 years of work then become a trader. this is primarily because performance is quantifiable. if you make money you will get paid big. several prop shops in chicago paid 24/25 year old traders about a million in bonus this year. if you lose money you go back and get an MBA and jump to banking or start your own company or something. quant jock or not does not matter. trading is very diverse and personailty is usually more important than brains after certain point. we hire the nerd PHD to do all the heavy math and programming work.</p>