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You should consider yourself blessed the way your life went. Quant finance is maybe the most prestigious thing you can do in the US or any country. The job is interesting and rewarding. In a few years you will be looking DOWN on those machine learning snobs at Google. Now Google wants to be seen for their AI accomplishments but don’t even want to hire suitable specialists like you. Only the top of the crop. What a miserable outlook.
Later, once you made it into a quant trader role at a hedge fund or prop firm, you will get 20-50% of the profits your algos generate. Which can be millions per year. Quant trader is a job where only your performance matters, which is a good thing, not stupid papers that some biased reviewers didn’t like.
Remember: the path of least resistance is always the best. Don’t swim against the stream. Bend with the wind like a Willow tree and you shall stay whole.