Yes this. There's no shortage of people working in quant finance who used to work in research who quit because they literally could not afford to start a family.
People imagine it's like prestigious professors at top research institutions leaving their posts because of the allure of money, when it's more like the 100x people just like them who were denied tenure and realized they chased a career in science like an inner city youth chases getting into the NBA: most people fail. Then what?
I even know people who worked in quant finance, struck it rich, quit to finish becoming doctors, and then came screaming back because of how horrible medicine was.
People imagine it's like prestigious professors at top research institutions leaving their posts because of the allure of money, when it's more like the 100x people just like them who were denied tenure and realized they chased a career in science like an inner city youth chases getting into the NBA: most people fail. Then what?
I even know people who worked in quant finance, struck it rich, quit to finish becoming doctors, and then came screaming back because of how horrible medicine was.