Here is one person’s top ten list of ways to fail to obtain a PhD. Interesting quotes: Ph.D. school seems to be a magnet for every kind of procrastinator. Advisors expect near-terminal Ph.D. students to be proto-professors with intimate knowledge of the challenges in their field. They should be capable of selecting and attacking research [...]
Sometimes good company can be the difference between reaching your goals and failing to do so. I’m wondering what online communities people find value in on their path to obtaining their PhDs?
Here is a little tongue in cheek developer career philosophy/humor: (via xkcd via Greg Wilson)
http://www.amstat.org/jobweb/index.cfm http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/jobs.html http://www.stat.purdue.edu/resources/jobs/jobs.cgi?type=1 http://jobs.imstat.org/c/search_results.cfm?site_id=1847 http://eims.ams.org/search/ http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs (via Dr. Rowe)
Over the past couple of months I’ve done some very informal research on what it means to be an actuary. From reading the Wikipedia article and also the Be An Actuary website it seems like a pretty interesting job. Here is where it gets surprising, though: nearly everyone I know in the insurance industry has [...]
A few days ago my friend and I were talking about the software development market and how as you pass multiples of 10 years of age you tend to face “new concerns” at work. For example, when you turn 30 you get promoted to lead developer, when you turn 40 you get promoted to manager, [...]
This article talks about how American PhDs might have better luck finding employment overseas. It sounds like a good opportunity for adventure! ;)
Here is a good article about the top 10 things that you don’t want at your next job. (via reddit)
Found here: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, [...]
I was writing a talk for investors, and I had to explain what to look for in founders. What would someone who was the opposite of hapless be like? They’d be relentlessly resourceful. Not merely relentless. That’s not enough to make things go your way except in a few mostly uninteresting domains. In any interesting [...]