Re: mathematician salaries

Drs. Chan-Ho Suh and Jesse F. Hughes, who wrote:
> You said: "We never hire PhD's in finance."
Your advertisement says "PhD fields sought: Finance".
> You claim 2 PhDs.

You guys think too literally. Your mind is seared from proving too
many theorems with pedagogical logic. Assumptions, implications,
proof. 0+1=1 implies 0+2=2. Yeah. Righto.
You should wish the real world is so simplistic, so sensible, so
organized. Not!

Mark thinks in terms of the real world. Yes, we do not typically hire
PhDs in Finance. But there are many PhDs in the math and hard or
financial sciences who have a keen interest in finance. For instance,
Mark does not have a phd "in finance". But Mark was very interested in
finance when writing his Ito's Theorem dissertation, and took it upon
himself to take business, marketing, and accounting courses. Thus,
Mark has a phd AND it is a phd in a finance-related area. This is why
Mark can say he has a PhD in Science and a PhD in finance in a
figurative sense. Mark prefers to talk to people like that. Get it?
Mark does not like PhDs who has a PhD strictly within finance because
such people's mindset is very narrow. Mark prefers interdisciplinary
minded individuals who, while majoring in something else, has actively
also pursued knowledge in finance out of passion.

In summary, Mark does not like "careerists" who solely focus on the
finance course and knows little about science and math and literature
and marketing. Such people are not educated. They are not
entrepreneurs. Mark is a risk taker, an entreprenueur, a leader in his
field, a new thinker. His friends call Mark a renaisance man.

As for the job ad -- it is not a pedagogical theorem.

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