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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitsune9" data-source="post: 5830046" data-attributes="member: 18507">I found you pit traders a different breed than us financial analysts. I use to work for a hedge fund and I agree that results is really all that mattered to those guys. However, I work for doctors and manage the financials of their research projects. A good deal of them never owned a TV because they work 80 - 100 hours a week practicing, researching, and teaching. To say that they are not into anything remotely pop cultured is an understatement. However, I've been in this particular business managing the financials for scientific research for 12 years and it's been pretty much the same--no geekness allowed. The last company I worked at dealt with research involving the Veterans Affairs and everything we did was scrutinized and had a bajillion security checks into our life's history. If anything came up which could put a negative light about the work being done at the VA, that person was gone. My coworkers were a very bland bunch and I caught a lot of flack for just being into video games.I know Silicon Valley finance guys in which their game companies have a double-standard. Everyone else can zip around in flip-flops, bring their dog, play video games, or decorate their office in some kind of zany fashion, but my finance buddies know there's an unspoken law that if they want to play, they will invite a great deal of scorn and eventual dismissal.I wish I was an options trader instead, but that ship has sailed.</blockquote>

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