Money Markets Trading - Some questions

Hi I am a 26 Year old with an opportunity to get into Money Market Trading at a BB. I understand that Money Markets have been dull and boring as the short end of the curve has been held fixed by central banks. Hence last 4-5 years MM has just been funding the cash machine of the bank for ATM withdrawls

However next 2-3 years are expected to bring back volatile short end and hence i would want to ask those boys/girls who have seen vol in short end in their career to pls help me with the below. appreciate the help in advance

1) Career Progression - how easy would it be to switch to trading 2-5 years rates on an rates desk

2) Pay - are the MM traders paid well?

3) Interesting - would it be interesting? given the lack of risk apetite of BB banks, all the prop/trading would be limited to the short duraion hence my guess is MM desks will get to do something while long end boy will do nothing

4) ANything else you guys might want to share

Thank

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  1. It shouldn't be too hard to switch. Whether you'd want to is another question.
  2. It depends... This should really be the least of your worries, especially in this case.
  3. Yes, it's certainly interesting and, most importantly, extremely educational. Forget your logic about the short duration vs the long end, it's wrong. The most relevant consideration should be that you will learn about, arguably, the most important part of the market.
  4. Just do it
 
Martinghoul

1. It shouldn't be too hard to switch. Whether you'd want to is another question.
2. It depends... This should really be the least of your worries, especially in this case.
3. Yes, it's certainly interesting and, most importantly, extremely educational. Forget your logic about the short duration vs the long end, it's wrong. The most relevant consideration should be that you will learn about, arguably, the most important part of the market.
4. Just do it

could you please elaborate point 3 of yours.. just now had a conversation with someone and was told that major part of the job will be "cash management" and wouldn't entail much of what is proper "trading"

 
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huhahaha Martinghoul:

1. It shouldn't be too hard to switch. Whether you'd want to is another question.
2. It depends... This should really be the least of your worries, especially in this case.
3. Yes, it's certainly interesting and, most importantly, extremely educational. Forget your logic about the short duration vs the long end, it's wrong. The most relevant consideration should be that you will learn about, arguably, the most important part of the market.
4. Just do it

could you please elaborate point 3 of yours.. just now had a conversation with someone and was told that major part of the job will be "cash management" and wouldn't entail much of what is proper "trading"

There's a lot to money mkts. Initially, you may, in fact, have to work mostly on cash and collateral mgmt, etc. These duties may still involve trading decisions with PNL implications. The biggest benefit is that you are dealing with the real nitty-gritty. If you decide to move on and progress to trading pretty much anything else in rates, there is simply no better starting point than funding and money mkts, IMHO.
 

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