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Personally my job has two functions: a) I support and enhance various trade entry systems to handle a multitude of FI, FX & currency products. In addition to which, we are b) in the processing of writing a whole suite of products specifically designed to enable the FI desk (primarily) to...

I know of one - he was a contractor but he had to take a masters degree to do it. He now regrets it - the increase in salary isn't significant, the job is more boring and the people in the quants team are total bores.

So he's a low level contractor yet he's earning a tidy sum. Who's the cu*t? Agree with your second point though, as far as I can see, you have to be in the right place at the right time, you have to prove your competence AND you MUST be a good politician in order to get to the sort of...

Don't knock it. It's my key skill too, and I also make a tidy living from it. It helps that I can code in VB, .Net, Java, various unix scripting languages and have Fixed Income and FX Derviative business knowledge, but I'm most marketable because I'm a better VBA programmer than anyone else on...