On 26-Aug-08 16:04, Invisible wrote:
> scott wrote:
> 
>>> ...so they won't be remotely interested in me then?
>>
>> I would think that Haskell would be quite suited to some of their 
>> problems.
> 
> Hmm. Interesting. The careers advisor I was speaking to when Phil posted 
> this actually suggested that I look at "financial abstraction" as a 
> potential target area. He said that large financial companies often 
> employ people for developing complex financial models, and although it's 
> not "programming" as such, it involves those kinds of skills.
> 
> But then, this same guy also suggested I look into programming computer 
> games - especially since those jobs aren't all in London.
> 
> Because, you know, it's not as if every computer nerd on Earth wants to 
> go into games programming or anything like that, is it? ._.
> 
> Anyway, looking at the actual vacancies at Paragon, it seems all of them 
> want "demonstratable experience" with C#, which I obviously don't have. 
> (I can see one job who's wording is sufficiently ambiguous that it might 
> be construed as meaning you only need experience with Excel or SQL - 
> which obviously I have.)
> 
Did I tell you that we are trying to get a new project funded where we 
possibly could use an Android PhD student? (One of the reasons I am a 
bit quite lately). That project has the obvious drawbacks for the real 
Andrew that it would be in Amsterdam (or possibly also more in the 
eastern part of the Netherlands) in a group with about 50% or more 
women. Reasons to assume that you  might fit in is that when creating a 
team (4-5 people) we need someone to keep me and another post-doc 
focussed. We will be handling large amounts of data and biological 
samples that will have to be processed acording to standard procedures 
(not my strongest point). Not afraid of maths is a good point, and 
graphics related problems will be a large part of it. It may result in a 
startup, so experience outside the university would be positive. Also 
needed will be programming experience and anatomical knowledge. Not sure 
how you score on that, but as I said we need to create a team with 
complementary skills. Don't count on it yet, we still have to write 
large parts of the grant application(s), but we need at least something 
granted next june or so, to continue my status as a perpetual post-doc.

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