scott wrote:

> Exactly, any industry where dealing with numerical models is their core 
> business will be crying out for people like you.  Like insurance 
> companies too.  From the degree I did (Engineering), the single sector 
> that most people went on to work in was finance!  Banks and insurance 
> companies don't make any physical products, they make their money by 
> simply making clever decisions, which are based on models designed by 
> clever people.
> 
> As an example, imagine you have the records of millions of people 
> (including address, age, etc) and a list of every single insurance claim 
> they have ever made.  Now write a program to decide how much each 
> person's insurance premium should be to make the maximum profit.  That 
> program is absolutely critical to the success or failure of an insurance 
> company.  They are not going to get some idiot to just think up some 
> numbers that look about right.

The obvious problem with _finance_ is that almost all of it is done in 
London. But perhaps I can find something similar in a more acceptable 
location...

I think I might send an open letter to Paragon just for giggles. You 
know, a while back, I emailed Ryan Giess. (As in, *the* Ryan Giess.) 
That was a few years ago now. But yesterday, I got an email from him 
saying he's released a software update! Who'd have thought...

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