Project/career advice to get into quant dev in sports betting

[Euler]

Cool...guess you'd have to be better at it than the 7pm news.
https://starlizard.com/jobs/sports-meteorologist/

I'm surprised they are doing this as I visited them roughly a decade ago to talk about something similar. Hyper local forecasting is commonplace now, so I don't think you need a specialist.

[Euler]

Having dealt with Starlizard, they firewall departments to ensure information doesn't leak from one side to the other. So if you are coding, you would be given a very specific task but in such a way, you wouldn't know why.

There is this myth that some of these large organisations are very clever, but in fact they are just businesses with fingers in many pies. They often don't have much amazing insight.

Some of the smartest people I know are individual traders with very specific knowledge and angles on specific markets and strategies. Which is why I often recommend people break out on their own and find a niche.

[Big Bad Barney]

Some of the smartest people I know are individual traders with very specific knowledge and angles on specific markets and strategies. Which is why I often recommend people break out on their own and find a niche.

I would concur that long term, yes, it's a generally happier way to live your life for some people. However, it depends greatly on ones psychology. E.g. Loneliness works for some and not others.

The OP is young (assumption) on his way to what sounds like a dev internship.

To me, it generally seems wiser to do the stuff you're not built for first. Really learn good and proper that it's not what you want. I couldn't think of anything more likely to cause failure than hitting the wall, thinking wtf am I doing, this is hard yakka.....and not KNOWING that you REALLY REALLY hate working for other people.

Plus finding a niche is a lot easier if you can manage to have someone to pay you rule a few out first...

Contrary to that....the alternative wisdom is just follow passion where ever that leads you...success or failure....i.e. it's not the destination that matters according to most oldies .... I'm not sure that the blind kind of passion is a good strategy...depending on ones version of what success is.

Alternately, one could just read a Tony Robbins book, and all that stuffs solved for ya