你可知道華爾街交易員內心的那些痛大綱

"Sometimes I look at these guys resumes and I say, you're kind of f---d man," said Jesse Marrus, founder of Wall Street recruiting site StreetID.

華爾街招聘網站StreetID 的創始人Jesse Marrus說:”有時我看這些人的簡歷時,我會說你是屬於該f*d類的人。”

The guys are traders, without a doubt the rowdiest, riskiest bunch on Wall Street with a very singular skill.

這些人都是交易員，毫無疑問，他們是華爾街裏最喧鬧、最有風險又擁有非凡技能的一羣人。

And right now demand for that skill is plummeting. The market is quiet so it's hard for them to make money. Without the money they bring in, shops — banks, hedge funds, trading firms etc. — can't afford to keep expensive employees they don't really need.

但是現在對這種技能的需求驟然下跌。市場平靜而理性，所以他們很難賺到錢。沒有他們引進的投資，商家-銀行，對衝基金，貿易公司等-負擔不起大量昂貴卻實際上並不需要的員工。

So a lot of traders are about to be let go, and since their skills are so niche, there aren't many place they can go.

所以很多交際員即將失業，並且由於他們的技能適用範圍很小，所以適合他們的職位很少。

Think of this as a game of musical chairs, except the chair is your entire livelihood.

這就相當於一個搶椅遊戲，只不過這個椅子是你全部的生計。

"The first six months of the year were crazy for hiring," said Marrus, "then it hit the breaks. Hard... If you're not coming from one of the top funds, CFA, Ivy education, and if you haven't run $500 million you're not getting the job."

Marrus說：“每年前半年是招聘高峯期，然後就會日漸稀少。如果你不是出自於頂級基金，CFA，常春藤教育大學，並且如果你沒有做成過高達5億美金的投資，那麼你很難得到這份工作。”

Firms don't mind keeping these positions open for years, either. They want to right candidate, and that's usually someone younger (think ages 26 to 33 roughly) who hasn't jumped from shop to shop and fits a specific sector or specialty (casinos, food and beverage what-have-you).

同時，公司並不在意這些職位空缺很多年。他們想要僱用最適合的員工，並且這些員工通常都很年輕（大概26-33歲之間），不會頻繁跳槽，適合專門的部門或者行業（賭場，食品和飲料）。

The worst part about this is that it hasn't been long since the last mass trader culling. Back in 2010, new post-financial crisis regulation forced banks to break up proprietary trading desks. The best traders in the exodus found jobs at hedge funds or smaller, less regulated , especially older more expensive guys, left The Street forever.

最糟糕的是，上一次大規模交易員遭受淘汰並沒有持續多久。2010年新的金融危機制度強迫銀行結束自營交易櫃檯。很多從事基金工作的優秀交易員開始在對衝基金或者更小、體系更不健全的公司工作。

The ones that survived that round may not survive this one, especially since the word among hedge fund head hunters is that a lot of traders that made the transition from banks to hedge funds aren't working out. They don't always grasp the way hedge funds handle risk or manage portfolios. With hedge fund performance down like it is now, they'll be the first to go.

能夠在基金行業做的很好的交易員不一定能夠在對衝基金行業做的很好，主要是因爲對衝基金的獵頭注意到很多交易員不能夠有效的將自己的工作角色由銀行工作轉換到對衝基金工作上面。他們不能夠遊刃有餘的利用對衝基金處理危險或者證券投資組合的方法。由於他們在對衝基金行業的業績低下，他們可能會是第一個被辭退的人。

"Unfortunately there's no simple answer," said Adam Grealish, founder of RoleTroll, a startup that uses algorithms to find jobs for financial professionals. Grealish himself was a quant trader that got let go in the 2010 deluge. That's when he started building the technology behind RoleTroll.

RoleTroll公司採用數學規則來幫助金融專業人員找到工作。 它的創始人Adam Grealish說：“不幸的是這個問題沒有簡單的答案”。Grealish曾經是一個定量交易員，在2010年的失業大潮中失業了。正是那時他開始建立RoleTroll所需要的技術。

It helped him get a job at Goldman in a few months, so he put the project on the back burner. He realized, though, that in this market, it's too good a project to pass up. He designed his product to be something Wall Streeters could set and forget. Upload your resume and the program does the rest.

幾個月後，他在Goldman公司得到了一份工作，因而他把這個項目放在次要地位。儘管他意識到，在這個領域內這是一個前景很好的項目。他把產品設計成華爾街人可以利用和遺忘的東西。上傳你的簡歷，然後這個項目完成剩餘工作。

It's especially great for the traders that see the axe before it falls, and are looking for somewhere to land.

這尤其適合於那些發現自己即將被裁掉並且希望找到新工作的交易員。

"You're generally out 1,2,3 times a week with clients," Grealish explained. "You don't have a lot of time for yourself and when you do have that time you're relaxing."

Grealish解釋說：“通常一週內你會跟客戶出去1-3次，你自己沒有很多時間，並且你有時間時你也想放鬆一下。”

It's important to add that technology also plays a role here too. All trading is going electronic. It happened first in the stock market, and now it's happening in the bond market — the last holdouts still talking on their squawk boxes.

有必要補充一下，技術同樣起着重要的作用。所有的交易都是通過電子的形式進行的。他最早應用在股票市場，現在也應用在了證券市場-一些堅持者仍然通過對講機進行交流。

"I've had people cry to me, and it's difficult to hear and I went through in myself," said Michael Freeburg, a former floor trader who started his own wealth management firm, Greenwich Wealth Management LLC, 13 years ago. "I'm glad I did it before the financial crisis.... Right now I wouldn't want to be doing it in my 50s.

前任場內交易員Michael Freeburg說：“很多人向我哭訴，我很難聽清楚，然後我自己進行了調查”“我很開心在經濟危機前做了這件事…我不想在我50歲的時候再做這件事”。13年前他開始經營自己的財富管理公司，Greenwich財富管理LLC。

Freeburg left The Street as electronic trading started to take hold. These days — and in the last 4 years — he's getting a lot of calls from people he knew from the floor.

在電子商務開始佔領市場時，Freeburg離開了華爾街。這些天-並且在以後的4年-他接到了很多他以前做場內交易時認識的人的電話。

"The fact is, not too many people care about fat cat Wall Streeters losing their jobs and not being able to a make a million bucks or whatever," said Freeburg, "but they're real people and it's real pain and effects their families and it's painful to watch and hear."

Freeburg說：“實際上，很少有人關心有錢有勢的華爾街人失去他們的工作，或是不能夠得到$1，000,000的投資，亦或是其他的什麼”。“但是他們是人，這些真實的痛苦會影響他們的家人，並且看到和聽到這些是很痛苦的”。