<t>*wipes away tears from laughing so hard* oh, god. whew! ahaha. ...arghya yew cannot fool anybody heere for vee all know dat you are abu from dee simpsons!QuoteOriginally posted by: arghyaI need to rectify that I'm heading the Mumbai Corporate and Institutional Sales dept where Four people reports...

<t>Ugh. So many roadblocks. I'm starting to think that an economists such as myself should just forget quant and go work for boeing or caterpillar or some other large corporation. They're probably salivating to get a ph.d in economics even from a lower tier school because that's the kind of knowledg...

<t>well I'm sorry I've upset you sweetpea but if you are really so angry about it why not just ignore what we say? In fact, since you already have your job, why are you here casting aspersions in the first place?QuoteOriginally posted by: TraderJoeQuoteOriginally posted by: twofishQuoteOriginally po...

<t>but should I put *nothing* about my programming ability on a resume? ..what about just saying i've had classes in these, but have no formal work experience with them? The alternative is to inform employers about none of my programming skills. Are you saying that they would prefer that I had no pr...

<t>Well you know the truth is that I *can* perform those tasks in c++ that you mentioned because I had to do them repeatedly week after week for the programs we were assigned in object oriented programming. For fortran, I was not performing only rudimentary tasks. We were designing programs to compu...

<t>Now here is a piece of information that encourages me more than any other previous posting. If your job interview pivoted only on your ability to program in fortran for crying out loud then how can people claim that ivy league is so vital? I can drop c++, fortran, java, lisp, matlab, and even mat...

<t>See this is what I was hoping there would be some elaboration on as well. If the ph.d incorporates topics from a variety of different fields, i.e. econ, finance, quant, math, econometrics, stats (did I leave any out?), then is that ph.d degree considered more valuable to a wall street employer or...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: nonParametricMost Econ Ph.Ds on Wall Street are not quants, they are economists. Econometricians may be the only exception. The skillsets are quite different, especially when it comes to programming skills and high powered math.Interesting. Would you mind elaborating? F...

<t>1) Who said I was referring to permanent work residents or those with work visas? Nobody in my department that I know of is a permanent resident, and work visas are reportedly issued by occupation rather than like a fishing license. E.g., if there's a large demand for programmers, then the foreig...

<r>lol now why didn't you bother to paste this in the forum like I requested? I can tell you why. Universities do not respond to inquiries like yours with responses like the one you supposedly received. In fact, it's quite laughable. They do not say, paraphrasing, "what kind of an idiotic piece of i...

<t>yes. paste it here plz, not because I don't believe you per se but because I want to cross-reference.QuoteOriginally posted by: ace2002QuoteOriginally posted by: flankIndeed I am curious to know if what they informed you differs from what they informed meDo you still expect people here to believe...

<t>Indeed I am curious to know if what they informed you differs from what they informed meQuoteOriginally posted by: ace2002flank,There is no point to deduce your own theory about how the world works. You do what you think is right to do and best of luck to you.P.S. I have checked with Wharton abou...

<t>ok, so they have their ph.d with a theoretical dissertation, and what does all that theory have to do with the price of cheese?? Perhaps theory is favored more in the quant field, but I'm being told by professors both in my department and departments of higher universities that industry doesn't w...

<t>I remain unconvinced about the supposed existence of a ph.d tsunami flooding the market. Americans just don't get ph.ds. I'm not speculating here -- numerous heads of economics & finance departments from many many universities I've contacted report that only the foreigners are taking ph.ds. A...

<t>You wrote this as if my intention was to enter academia, but the truth is that my stated goal for a long, long time, whether in this forum or otherwise, has been to run away from academia and into industry. Perhaps later in life taking on a simple teaching job with few responsibilities and alot o...