Must lucrative college degrees

[JohnT]

1. It wasn't pirated.

2. It was due to being an employee, as MS didn't go public until 1986. Otoh, he got the job because of QDOS, so one can rationally argue that he got the options because of the sale.

3. If you consider 30 people tiny (By IBM standards, yes, by the standards of 90% of American businesses, no).

[Imran Siddiqui]

John, don't worry, UR is just on one of his anti-MS moments .

[Az]

Originally posted by Frogman


You are right to say poor chemist.

Chemists just aren't as marketable as Chemical Engineers and typically start about 15% lower.

I still say that sales is a good area to consider if you don't like being behind a desk. Most big companies have salaried sales positions and your calling on professional purchasing people. Everything has to be sold by somebody and most chemical companies or companies with technical products would rather teach sales techniques to technical people rather than teach technical information to business majors.

Coming out of school, getting a sales job will get you lots of contacts at different companies and is a great way to see whats really out there. Don't believe that there is one "sales type", all you need is honesty, reliability and some knowledge about what your selling.

I could go and learn chemical engineering, but I found it boring.
I was interested more in a research career, that in a bussiness career, to be honest.

But if I have to go the bussiness way, I guess I'd go pretty much the way you said. There are lots of jobs for chemists here, while the management BAs work as clerks.

[Akron]

Can someone tell me how much actuaries really make? I've found some stats but im not sure their right, people have told me they make a lot more... And which colleges have the best math departments?

[JohnT]

Have you tried Salary.com? According to them, an Actuary I makes about $49,000 in Jersey City, NJ.

An Actuary V (there are five levels of Actuary positions, if that makes any sense) makes about $106,000 in the same city.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by JohnT
1. It wasn't pirated.

It was a rip-off of CP/M.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Akron
Can someone tell me how much actuaries really make? I've found some stats but im not sure their right, people have told me they make a lot more... And which colleges have the best math departments?

At some schools the same department that offers accounting also offers actuary degrees.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


It was a rip-off of CP/M.

Given your support of open standards, this is a mighty odd objection.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by JohnT
Given your support of open standards, this is a mighty odd objection.

QDOS contained loads of copied code from CP/M.