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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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Straggler
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Message 2 of 20 (606201)
02-24-2011 8:40 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Adequate
02-24-2011 8:35 AM


Is this a genuine question?
If so - What did you do for work until your current bout of unemployment?

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Percy
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Message 3 of 20 (606203)
02-24-2011 8:51 AM
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02-24-2011 8:35 AM


I know someone in Las Vegas doing programming in the gaming industry. Is that a match? Don't know if they're hiring, though.
If you're not on LinkedIn, join now.
--Percy

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slevesque
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Message 4 of 20 (606204)
02-24-2011 8:55 AM
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02-24-2011 8:35 AM


you should count cards, or play poker ...
PS This isn't a serious advice. The math in poker is relatively simple, to the point where everybody is on even ground in this aspect(except at the lower stakes of course). The real skills you need is logical analysis of post-flop play and a good instinct, amongst other things.

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cavediver
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Message 5 of 20 (606208)
02-24-2011 9:39 AM
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02-24-2011 8:35 AM


I have a Ph.D. in mathematics.
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.
ABE: I'm so long outside this line of work, it may be that everything is now Monte Carlo - so MC programming and knowledge would be the key.
Edited by cavediver, : No reason given.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 6 of 20 (606210)
02-24-2011 10:19 AM
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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
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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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cavediver
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Message 8 of 20 (606214)
02-24-2011 10:40 AM
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02-24-2011 10:22 AM


My current plan is to become a substitute teacher and I would rather do that than become a trader in derivatives
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.

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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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kbertsche
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Message 10 of 20 (606221)
02-24-2011 11:28 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Adequate
02-24-2011 8:35 AM


Applied or theoretical math, and what specialty?
If you like applied math verging on engineering, you might check out Varian's industrial products division. This division is growing, and they are having trouble convincing people to relocate from Palo Alto, where I believe most of the R&D is still done. They make coupled-cavity standing-wave particle accelerators for cargo inspection. There is a bit of interesting math in the coupled-cavity tuning which they may not do properly (I used to work for a competitor, where I found we had been slightly mistuning cavities for decades.) There would be more complex math in their image reconstructions, especially if they are doing tomography.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 11 of 20 (606265)
02-24-2011 2:07 PM
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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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Straggler
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Message 12 of 20 (606266)
02-24-2011 2:09 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by Dr Adequate
02-24-2011 10:19 AM


Teaching
If you are considering teaching and it is something accessible to you now I would certainly recommend it for while. As a long term career I am less convinced. For reasons of pay, bureaucracy and the eventual tedium of teaching the same thing over and over I chose not to do it long term. But I can honestly say that I thoroughly enjoyed my stint as a maths/physics high school teacher.

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cavediver
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Message 13 of 20 (606277)
02-24-2011 2:47 PM
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02-24-2011 2:09 PM


Re: Teaching
If you are considering teaching and it is something accessible to you now I would certainly recommend it for while. As a long term career I am less convinced. For reasons of pay, bureaucracy and the eventual tedium of teaching the same thing over and over I chose not to do it long term. But I can honestly say that I thoroughly enjoyed my stint as a maths/physics high school teacher.
Yep, I can agree with every word there How long did you last?

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Straggler
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Message 14 of 20 (606282)
02-24-2011 3:00 PM
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02-24-2011 2:47 PM


Re: Teaching
3 years + 1 year of Post Graduate Certificate in Education (which was almost entirely school based).
So 1 year training. 1 Year in the UK. 1 year in Guyana. Then 1 year back in the UK.
Then I ended up working in IT (to this day)
Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.

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Taz
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Message 15 of 20 (606349)
02-25-2011 1:28 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dr Adequate
02-24-2011 8:35 AM


I know how you feel. I have a friend who's a phd biologist who's been out of work for a year now. Sucks.

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