So don't go out and face the word - become an academic and stay a student forever. I'm trying to coax isotripy down this path at the moment; she's just finished her honors and is applying for the PhD program.
The business world sucks majorly; especially coming from an academic background - I never ceased to be amazed at the corners that are cut in business. In university (especially mathematics) everything has to be done properly, rigorously. In business everything has to be done profitably - profit, profit, profit, and doing things properly is a distant third after doing things politically (office politics is appalling sometimes).
From my point of view as a mathematician this offends me - I'll go to my boss and say "this is the way it should be done" (properly) and he'll say "Yes, but this is the way we're going to do it because it will save us X dollars" (profit). Then a year later it will all implode and have to be done again because it wasn't done properly the first time, but in the meantime it's kept the stock price from plunging for another year.
Right business decision, but my lecturer would have failed me.
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Re: Or maybe you're just having a bad day
Date: 2005-10-30 08:30 pm (UTC)The business world sucks majorly; especially coming from an academic background - I never ceased to be amazed at the corners that are cut in business. In university (especially mathematics) everything has to be done properly, rigorously. In business everything has to be done profitably - profit, profit, profit, and doing things properly is a distant third after doing things politically (office politics is appalling sometimes).
From my point of view as a mathematician this offends me - I'll go to my boss and say "this is the way it should be done" (properly) and he'll say "Yes, but this is the way we're going to do it because it will save us X dollars" (profit). Then a year later it will all implode and have to be done again because it wasn't done properly the first time, but in the meantime it's kept the stock price from plunging for another year.
Right business decision, but my lecturer would have failed me.