Financial Engineering / operations research?

I am a current college student at an ivy and w but am in an engineering program. I wanted to study OR but and was wondering if anyone knew the career outlooks of this kind of course is. I always saw myself as becoming a quant or a algorithmic trader but I also want to go through IB recruiting if I can. Am I deluding myself by having too many interests?

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