My college roommate trained to be a string theorist, the most speculative and abstract part of theoretical physics. String theory is a lot like the stock market, full of boom and bust cycles. String theory was in full boom when were both graduate students but it shaded into stagflation by the time we graduated. After two postdocs in prestigious institutions without any sign of a faculty position, the said roommate left physics for Wall Street, joining Bear & Stearns (or was it Lehman Brothers).
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My college roommate trained to be a string theorist, the most speculative and abstract part of theoretical physics. String theory is a lot like the stock market, full of boom and bust cycles. String theory was in full boom when were both graduate students but it shaded into stagflation by the time we graduated. After two postdocs in prestigious institutions without any sign of a faculty position, the said roommate left physics for Wall Street, joining Bear & Stearns (or was it Lehman Brothers).