Any quants on here that can offer some guidance?

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The ability to ask good questions that elicit quality responses is a soft skill that is underappreciated among quants.

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Never pick your nose

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Always pick your nose

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If it sits between you and the ground, spend more for quality. Bed, office chair, shoes, tires

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Don’t throw yellow snow

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Why you're doing something and how it'll be used is way more important than any modeling choice or even metric. This will make or break your projects and potentially career

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Thanks all :) I’ll look for advice elsewhere while I chill on my 300K TC cushy FANG job

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Cheers

Yes. Ask better questions!

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About what?

About their careers!

Bro, start over and be specific

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Just because that thing the client wants to do is inefficient or yields less than other options doesn't mean that you can convince the client otherwise. No amount of 2+2=4 beats stubbornness. Pick your battles carefully.

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