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- From: ramsay@math.ubc.ca (Keith Ramsay)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Job ratings (was Re: Minimum standards for math "competency")
- Date: 24 Nov 1992 01:27:31 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <1992Nov18.165157.14599@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1339@kepler1.rentec.com> <1992Nov23.200403.111578@Cookie.secapl.com>
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- Keywords: math competency education university college standards
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- In article <1339@kepler1.rentec.com> rjfrey@rentec.com (Robert J Frey) writes:
- | o The Jobs Almanac's top 5 jobs are all mathematically based:
- | actuary, computer programmer, systems analyst, mathematician
- | and statistician.
-
- In article <1992Nov23.200403.111578@Cookie.secapl.com>
- frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams) writes:
- |It appears that a number of people are doubting this, based on the
- |assumption that these are the jobs which [will] have the most jobs opening
- |up.
- ...
- |Then again, the Almanac may be using some other criteria entirely.
-
- I suspect that this is based on the same job survey as was cited in
- the newspapers, which rated these five jobs highest on some
- combination of pay scale, working conditions, stress, possibility for
- advancement, and job security. I don't think availability of the job
- was among the criteria, just security (once one has it). I dimly
- remember wondering whether the method of combining the criteria was
- reasonable.
-
- I suspect that mathematics rated well as an occupation because of
- tenure (for academic mathematicians), and because it is an indoor job.
- By contrast migrant farm work and fishing were near the bottom of the
- same list.
-
- Keith Ramsay
- ramsay@unixg.ubc.ca
-