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hfojvt

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7. I have a BA in math and an MA in economics

Wed Jan 25, 2012, 05:02 AM

Jan 2012

I have found both degrees to be worthless. I scored 1590 on the GRE in quantitative and analytical so presumably I am fairly good at math. I have worked the last ten years as a janitor, and before that for three years as a factory temp. If there is some shortage of mathematicians then I must be invisible or something.

Oh, and I live right next to a military base. Defense contractors? Hah, the only people they hire are retired officers, which this town is flooded with.

Back in 1986 I worked for the Air Force. I heard they had so many ROTC officers with engineering degrees that they had more engineers than they had engineering work.

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