Originally Posted by Unregistered

yes, fully agree.

and not only that, the engineering mindset will set you back by decades. you become very calculative but in a wrong way. for example, you will wonder why banks pay their sales people so much and argue that it's unsustainable, but people collect real good money while you continue to philosophize your way to poverty.

and engineers get conned into those forex / options trading seminars thinking that they can make good money by charting and using mathematical tools.