Invisible wrote:
> Clearly I'm in the wrong line of business. :-P

I say this every time I get involved in a payment processing company that 
goes broke after the people using it to sell porn rake in $50K/month.

> very simple question: How the HELL do you use something like Mathematica 
> "commercially"?!?!!

Predicting the stock market. Engineering.  Theoretical physics.

> who the hell does math as part of their day job?

Why not write to the makers and ask what companies they've sold to near you? 
Then apply for a job.

> About the closest thing I can think of is engineering; but they aren't 
> going to use Mathematica, they're going to use a dedicated CAD system to 
> do finite element simulations and so forth.

Someone has to figure out how those finite element simulations work.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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