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[Justin Schwartz]

My dad, an industry mathematician by trade (IDA, MITRE, TRW, Rockwell, all 
the bad guys in the star wars biz), BSc, Carnegie Tech, Ph.D. Stanford, 
adjunct prof at Georgetown, AU, GW, etc., a stack of publications as high as 
he was tall, got a certificate in health care mgt, trying to get out of the 
war biz. As part of it, he found himself required to take an elementary math 
course that used a book he had written the baby stat chapter in . . . . 
After he pointed this out, they did let him test out of the requirement. 
--jks


>
>At 05:36 PM 06/04/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>>Sponsoring organization's rep: "What is your occupation?"
>>Me: "I have a degree in philosophy."
>>Sponsoring organization's rep (after a long pause): "But what can you
>>actually do?"
>
>Maybe all job interviews are alike. Excerpt from my first job interview
>(for post of secretary in an insurance firm):
>
>Q. What's the last math course you took?
>A. Vector calculus.
>Q. Yean, but can you add?
>
>(Didn't get the job, of course.)
>
>Joanna Bujes
>

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