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just FYI, this is a topic that comes up quite frequently on this site. Search old threads. There is abundant info regarding this.

 

No, this is a horrible career choice. That is why there is an entire online community dedicated to trying to help people get into this career field. We are all so miserable about our career choice that we try and convince unsuspecting kids from Ivy League schools to join us so we can waste all of their education in a dead end job.

"Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money." - Mickey Bergman - Heist (2001)
 

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