Re: Other job opportunities besides teaching w/ math degree
Posted by from yeah right to nameless on 8/21/08
i agree that moving there would have been the best and most productive
choice... simply because it puts you in the heart of it, and gives you
choices as far as making connections...
i totally agree with that.
this was not an option for me because i knew no one in that area, so
packing my wife and 2 kids in a car and driving on hope was not
a good idea. with mouths to feed, its best to have a job waiting for
you.
by the way, $200k is good money, but not awesome money in nyc. you
need $100k just to keep from living in a ghetto. not to mention the 2
hour one-way commutes to and from a wall street job. -- and long work
hours on top of that!
besides, i got increasingly more disgruntled with the corporate
behemoth. integrity is eroded, and sound judgement and strong
reasoning skills are diluted.
one poster on this board (the math board or the texas board, i forget
which) mentioned being told by his boss that he needs to work on his
work/home balance -- which, as we all know, means spend more time at
work.
i am new to the teaching arena -- actually i am not even there yet,
but i think i am going to love having my summers off to spend some QT
with my family.
i live in TX, by the way.
On 8/21/08, Remaining nameless out of respect for other's privacy.
wrote:
> To yeah right,
>
> I agree with you about connections, but I reach a different
> conclusion. You say, "Give up;" I say "Work on getting connected."
>
> I have seen this work for people. With just a little bit of work
> on my part, 2 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates have given me their phone
> numbers. A friend of mine in the music business recently added an
> extremely famous person within the music business to his team.
> Another member of his team is close with the biggest producer in
> Hollywood, but my friend hasn't pursued the Hollywood connections.
> He feels so confident that he recently ended negotiations with a
> 6-time Grammy award winner who has one of the top-10 selling albums
> of all time. (Everyone reading this would know all three names if I
> were to drop them, but out of respect for their privacy I won't.)
>
> Before you say "yeah right," I should tell you that 7 years ago, he
> was doing sales for a telemarketing company, and had maxed out all
> of his credit cards. His degree, in Ethno-musicology, is from an
> obscure mid-western university.
>
> If you want to work on Wall Street, and make $200K a year, move to
> New York, get a job for less than $200K and start going to events
> where other Wall Street geeks gather.
>
> The one thing you didn't try is the one thing that would likely
> work.
>
> If you don't want to live in New York, there are a lot of other
> communities with good jobs for skilled people. You mentioned
> having lived in the Southwest. I hear there's a lot happening
in
> Silicon Valley.
>
>
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Other job opportunities besides teaching w/ math degree, 8/19/08, by Ben.
- Re: Other job opportunities besides teaching w/ math degree, 8/20/08, by len.
- Re: Other job opportunities besides teaching w/ math degree, 8/20/08, by Rich/CA/Math.
- Re: Other job opportunities besides teaching w/ math degree, 8/20/08, by yeah, right.
- Re: Rich, are you a fellow?, 8/20/08, by Mickey.
- Re: Rich, are you a fellow?, 8/20/08, by Rich/CA/Math.
- Re: Rich, are you a fellow?, 8/21/08, by Ms. Math.
- Re: Other job opportunities besides teaching w/ math degree, 8/21/08, by Remaining nameless out of respect for other's privacy..
- Re: Other job opportunities besides teaching w/ math degree, 8/21/08, by from yeah right to nameless.
- Re: Other job opportunities besides teaching w/ math degree, 8/21/08, by from yeah right to nameless .
- Re: Other job opportunities besides teaching w/ math degree, 8/21/08, by DSF/NJ.
1996 - 2008. All Rights Reserved. Please review our Terms of Use, Mission Statement, and Privacy Policy.
