If you like poker and look for a job that has many similarities with the game, study quantitative finance and aim for a career as a trader in a hedge fund... outrageously well paid as well...
Read books like "The Quants", "Liar's poker" and "When genius failed: the rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management" to get a feel for it. Fascinating world imo. And somewhat sickening as well. Technically the application of math and probabilities to stocks, bonds and derivative pricing is also very interesting.
What is also great is that you are allowed to f*ck up, loose billions of dollars, get away with it and retire comfortably with tens (if not hundreds) of millions of dollars in you bank account.
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