Hedge fund IT Intern - Worth my time?

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 - It could be my only trading-related internship on my resume if I do take this up

Cons: - It sounds like grunt work to me. Database migration isn't exactly a sexy job. - Takes up 3 months of my time

Opportunity costs: - I could have used the time to focus on my own web development business, trading with my own account, networking with people, or travel and enjoy life.

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