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Hiring mathematicians?

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I'm a pure mathematician who is currently working at a educational technology company. I love what we make and I believe it's the best. We actually have nine million customers around the world, so someone agrees with me.

I've been here for nine months and I've learned more about business and industry than I could have ever imagined. I'm lucky to work with excellent people.

Nonetheless, my work is not intellectually challenging. I'm not used to checking out at 5:00pm, and I'm also used to much harder problems -- the types that I can't help but obsess over.

I want to work on something that's interesting -- something I can work on nonstop. I can find my way around any platform, but I'm certainly not a software developer.

Anyone hiring someone like myself? I'm looking for a challenge, excellent people, extreme dedication, and something amazing.

Do you have a PhD? Thought about academia? You get a lot of free reign to work on whatever projects interest you. If you don't have a doctorate yet but are interested in working on challenging problems you might consider grad school.

As they say - Science is a way to quench one's personal interests for someone else's money.

I guess it depends what's your interest in math is. If it is statistics and probability theory, then HFT startups or any finance-related companies would be the best bet. If math modeling it is, then some sort of geo-surveying/environmental companies would be the ones, or perhaps a meteorology setups. Most of these will be run by the government, so the pay won't be great. All in all, a pure mathematician is rarely needed in a commercial environment if ever. Applied math is what you are realistically looking at, but then it all depends.

put email in profile. How can people reach you otherwise?

try ms research

How about becoming a software developer? For a mathematician it's fairly easy to move into programming. Start with Python or PHP and move on up from there.

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