Quantitative Econ or Digital Econ masters? Or just start working?
I'm currently finishing my bachelors in economics a year early and just had a great experience interning for 6 months at a fintech startup. I luckily didn't go into any debt for my degree at a non target state school online and transferred a ton of AP credits. I think that was the right choice given the pandemic and my ineligibility for financial aid. I am missing the prestigious degree, and don't know if that will hurt me down the road.I got really lucky with connections/nepotism and I have the opportunity to either get a job at a prop desk in more of a quant role or as a product manager in a crypto startup(this job is honestly awesome I just interned here and there is heavy VC ties, maybe I can even lateral), both involve some level of coding which I learned via internships and self teaching. I am graduating at age 20 and these jobs will more or less be waiting for me if I decide to go for a masters. (Not guaranteed but likely)I have a crazy opportunity to go to a target school/semi target idk in europe tuition free since I am a dual citizen, the two degrees I am interested in are digital economics or quantitative finance, and I am eligible for both with my economics bachelors degree. I am more interested in digital Econ since I have a passion for trading csgo skins which I know sounds stupid but that stuff was basically proto NFTs. I invested a part of my college fund in them and beat my crypto and stocks it was honestly crazy. The school is WU Vienna and I have family there and an apartment I can live in for free. The quantitative finance degree sounds more marketable but my passion is in crypto startups and the new wave, traditional finance is safer but more boring. Everyone is telling me to go for the quant degree but as stupid as it sounds my heart is in crypto.Should I go for it and bang out the degree? Or is the opportunity to get either one of my dream jobs not worth passing up?Debt free target/semi target European masters or dream job right away? Maybe a year at the job just in case it's not there later? My parents have target mbas and honestly it sounds like a shit deal for the money, especially nowadays, I feel like the European masters is a great way to circumvent that expectation, and if god forbid it's not enough I can always get an mba much later in life.Sorry if I sound pretentious or ignorant I'm young and naive.
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