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Dr Adequate
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Message 1 of 20 (606199)
02-24-2011 8:35 AM


I live in Las Vegas, Nevada, and I have a Ph.D. in mathematics. Can anyone please help me to find work?

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Dr Adequate
Member (Idle past 314 days)
Posts: 16113
Joined: 07-20-2006


Message 6 of 20 (606210)
02-24-2011 10:19 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by Straggler
02-24-2011 8:40 AM


Is this a genuine question?
If so - What did you do for work until your current bout of unemployment?
Yes, it's a genuine question.
I have a Ph.D. in mathematics.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 7 of 20 (606211)
02-24-2011 10:22 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by cavediver
02-24-2011 9:39 AM


Have you tried the banks? In particular, the derivative departments. Age is probably against you (I think you're mid-30s? They're ageist bastards as well as everything else), but if you find a good technical house and show up with good diff eqn skills and programming ability, it may swing it.
My current plan is to become a substitute teacher and I would rather do that than become a trader in derivatives even if they paid me ten times as much. That said, if that was the only option open to me, I would certainly do that. I don't have many principles that I'd go to the stake for.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 9 of 20 (606216)
02-24-2011 10:54 AM
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02-24-2011 10:40 AM


Well, I've done both, and the teaching was certainly more fun! You don't need to be a trader - just a good old quantitative analyst (QA) can make a huge salary on the back of his maths/programming skills.
Yeah, well, I wouldn't feel comfortable with that.
If you know any economists personally, I have done some pure mathematics in neo-classical economics that would certainly advance my career if I knew who to present my results to in which format to whom.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 11 of 20 (606265)
02-24-2011 2:07 PM
Reply to: Message 10 by kbertsche
02-24-2011 11:28 AM


Applied or theoretical math, and what specialty?
Oh, theoretical. I've worked out some things which I think might be useful, but the field in which I am known is in my judgment about as useful as a soap herring.
I have figured out some math which is kind of in between.
No particular specialty any more, 'cos I'm a genius. In the course of my research I invented linear optimization and proved that my solution solved it. That would have been way more impressive if I'd been the first person to do that rather than just doing it as a fucking hobby.
I wished at the time that I could do something else. My little brother is using his computer science skills to cure cancer, the smug little bastard. (I love him.)

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