Yes, Barny it is, that was to illustrate my point with one cause of subjectivity
Does it shock you that alma maters appear when people tell me what schools are good ?
However I note a contradiction, either you've never heard of QMC or it's laughable, you can't really have both.
QM did fall off a cliff, when I graduated we had the highest average starting pay of any Uni in the UK and the 3rd highest in Europe, a nuclear reactor underneath the Mile End Road and EE coursework included hacking into Russian satellites.
I agree with BBW that the idea of a "job" is dead, having been a temporary result of the first industrial revolution.
Before then, almost no one had a "job", ie something they'd expect to do most days for 5-10 years at a go.
There were a few professional soldiers, priests and a really small number of civil servants (many of whom were priests anyway).
Some people owned the business they ran like a farm, trading or blacksmith, but about 80 % of the population used whatever skills they had to do whatever people would pay them for that day.
There used to be "jobs for life" until I guess the 1990s, now if you called your job that people would assume you meant the exact opposite as some sort of black humour.
So, my standard view is that MengziWang is buying himself some career options, he doesn't need to choose quant or academia yet and to do so would destroy value.
