>> 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.

...OK...

>> very simple question: How the HELL do you use something like 
>> Mathematica "commercially"?!?!!
> 
> Predicting the stock market. Engineering.  Theoretical physics.

Who the hell does theoretical physics "commercially"?

Engineering seems to involve CAD and material simulations far more than 
any actual "mathematics" as such.

Predicting the stock market I'll give you - although that seems to be 
where everybody wants Python, Smalltalk and other weird languages. 
(Except Haskell.)

>> 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.

Heh. I'd apply to Wolfram themselves if they were in the UK. And, you 
know, if it wasn't patently absurd for a nobody like me to be applying 
to an internationally renound company.

>> 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.

That's a solved problem. (Solved several decades ago too.) You don't 
need Mathematica, you just need a good textbook.

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