Hedge fund IT Intern - worth taking?

Hi fellow monkeys,

I have the opportunity to intern at a hedge fund as an trading system IT intern and I will be helping the traders in database migration and building low-latency databases.

Pros: - Traders and researchers are friendly people and are willing to teach - Hedge fund is willing to hire high performing interns as fulltime staff - Task-oriented culture that focuses on getting things done rather than hours worked

Cons: - It sounds like grunt work to me. Database migration isn't exactly a sexy job. - Takes up 3 months of my time. It requires me to take a gap semester from school, but doesn’t affect my graduation date.

Opportunity costs: - I could have used the time to focus on my own web development business or network with people

Do you think I should take it if my aim is to get into trading / quant / quant development?

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