Timeline for Careers advice for Ph.D.s without current postdocs or university jobs
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| Dec 21, 2020 at 11:55 | comment | added | Vince Vatter | You forgot creating a card game, as one of Herb Wilf's students did: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garfield | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 3:24 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Since this question has got bumped, I'd note that the World Scrabble Champion Igor links to has actually rejoined academia (sort of) after a stint working for some finance-ish people in New York. math.uwaterloo.ca/~a5logan/math/index.html | |
| Mar 30, 2011 at 2:40 | comment | added | Najdorf | Nice "Honest, serious" answer. | |
| Jan 4, 2011 at 2:00 | comment | added | Jiahao Chen | If you are willing to include quantum chemists, you could add the Chancellor of Germany to the list. | |
| Nov 5, 2010 at 15:15 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | If you want to extend this to engineering PhD's, you can also write a successful webcomic that gets you to travel to many of the hotspots in scientific research worldwide... phdcomics.com | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 12:05 | comment | added | JBL | @KConrad, I'm glad I wasn't the only one! | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 9:20 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Victor, I WARMLY welcome your evocation of Sadi Carnot, the inventor of thermodynamics. Also, I love the title of his book: "Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propres à développer cette puissance". Doesn't that have more panache than "n-Categories for Dummies" ? | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 9:07 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | Georges, and from the same era, let's not forget Lazare Carnot (father of Sadi Carnot the physicist and grandfather of Sadi Carnot le président). | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 8:27 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Josh, you are amazing! None of the FRENCH mathematicians I talked to knew that Painlevé had been Prime Minister (nor that Emile Borel had been Député and Ministre de la Marine : MP and Minister for Maritime Affairs). I usually mention these things in order to make the point that the intellectual quality of French governance is not necessarily a strictly increasing function of time (but Heaven forbid I pollute our cherished site with French politics). One could also mention Joseph Fourier, who was a "Préfet" under Napoléon: something like a Governor in the US. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 7:42 | comment | added | Tom Church | Here is a link that should work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribou_%28musician%29 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 5:44 | history | edited | Igor Pak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 20, 2010 at 5:00 | comment | added | KConrad | For #7 I was expecting a link to the Unabomber... | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 4:59 | comment | added | KConrad | Tom, the last parenthesis in your link is not going through, leading to an error message. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 4:50 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kim Morrison | ||
| Jul 20, 2010 at 4:40 | comment | added | Tom Church | You could record electronic music, win the Polaris Music Prize, and break the US Billboard 100: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribou_(musician) | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:51 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | This is a fun list. I can't see how (4) should count though: Paulos has been a math professor at Temple University for my entire life, more or less. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:40 | comment | added | Greg Kuperberg | Igor, regarding (2) and (3): There will exist highly visible billionaires next year. You will spend time thinking about some of them, maybe a lot of time. However, none of them will be you. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:40 | comment | added | fedja | Hmmm... Didn't most (if not all) of those establish themselves in academia first and have their little fun afterwards? In other words, getting a university job was too easy for them, not too hard. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:28 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Schensted's home page is really something. Wow. | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:27 | history | edited | Igor Pak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:26 | comment | added | thel | You can do a lot better than minister of the interior: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Painlev%C3%A9 | |
| Jul 20, 2010 at 3:19 | history | answered | Igor Pak | CC BY-SA 2.5 |