On 13-Nov-08 10:26, Invisible wrote:
>>> Well, London isn't "remote", but no sane person would want to go there. 
>>
>> ?
> 
> Heh. You'll get me into trouble. :-P
> 
>>> The people who aren't in London are in places like Southampton, York, 
>>> etc.
>>>
>>
>> I happen to be in Amsterdam actually. Or don't I count as people? (or 
>> is that '... do I not...')
> 
> I meant the other companies I researched. A lot of them were in London, 
> and the rest were in far-flung parts of the UK.

ok that was s/people/companies then.

> 
> Korg UK is in Milton Keynes. But there office is about 10 square feet, 
> so I'm guessing it's just an admin office...
> 
>>> Um... the obvious problem here is that I'm obviously not intelligent 
>>> enough to do a PhD. :-P
>>
>> Intelligence is not a prerequisite for a PhD position. As long as you 
>> have a MSc or equivalent you could be hired.
> 
> Well, I don't have an MSc. I only have a BSc.

Didn't know that, that changes a lot, I guess.

> (You know the random Asian guys asking me to fix their Java? *They* were 
> the MSc students!)
> 
>> Please, leave the job of finding reasons why you are not qualified to 
>> the selection committee. BTW if it ever comes to this I will probably 
>> not take part is the job interview. I might know too much about you to 
>> be objective.
> 
> Why would you want me anyway? Surely somebody who already lives in 
> Amsterdam would be a more sensible choice? :-P

See, you are doing it again; leave the job of finding reasons why you 
are not qualified to the selection committee. Where someone lives now is 
totally unimportant.

The reason why I might like you to be in the team is a simply sum: one 
analyses what is needed and what we do have. We will have 2 PhD 
positions available knowing what I and a fellow postdoc can, we subtract 
that from the things we need and what is left is the minimum set of 
skills the other team members combined need to have. Which is still a 
very diverse set of skills and knowledge. My estimate is that with an 
added Andrew, what is left may be possible to fill with one person. Or 
if you start at the other end: for some likely kind of applicant to fill 
one position we will have an almost Andy shaped hole left.

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