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Ummmm.

I just (this weekend) got a mail from Wolfram Research asking me to call them to talk to them about job opportunities.

For those who are not stuck as deep as I am - Wolfram Research manufacture the Mathematica Computer Algebra System; which builds very heavily on some sort of idea that mathematics software and mathematics literature should be virtually indistinguishable. They are situated in Illinois, close to UIUC.

I'll call them today and see what they want from me.

Update: I have a time for a telephone interview booked on thursday afternoon with their manager for Technical Support and Engineering. I hope they're not offering me a pure support position - in that case I -will- turn them down.

Getting recruited for software engineering/programming however would be kinda neat. OTOH, I haven't done any of the homework I got assigned when filing my application, and I cannot find it again due to email problems.

Second update: Wolfram really made the middle line. Neither too good nor too bad. They want me to start a career as a builder of computational algebraic tools. This starts with one year in support, to get to know customers, users, software, tricks, internals, and the work process at Wolfram. I now have even less of an idea than before about what I'm going to do, really.

As I see it, I have two choices right now: Germany or Illinois. Germany is a crypto-job. It's not something I want to stay with for very long. On the other hand, there a loads and loads of nice people around me here - I actually do have a social context (and it's growing - I LOVE it that there is an RPG club here with at least as many gals as guys around....) and it's close enough to Sweden so that the trips back home can be frequent and need not necessarily eat ALL my vacation time.
Illinois, on the other hand, is the beginning of a career as a mathematical software builder. It is a career I'm headed for in some way or another anyway. It is a place where I possibly could do an industrial doctorate and still keep within context of my "original" interests. I do not yet know what exactly they'll offer me - the next person upwards in the chain of command is to call me ASAP to talk further with me - but my (dis)interest is extremely dependent on just what they'll say. That and what Susanne'll say.

Among the food for thought I gathered from friends at Stockholm University after the interview, two items stand out clearly. One: I am highly qualified for the doctorate. To the extent that the people who know me the best were quite surprised I didn't get it. Two: If I am to plan for the possibility that it could take longer than another year for me to possibly get a doctorate in Stockholm (or Sweden for that matter), then the question of where Susanne would like to live actually comes into play. I'm not certain, but she has previously held quite stark aversions against living in Germany. I don't know what she'd think about the choice .de / .us though... Or if it even is so that we now enter the phase where we live in radically different places on the earth for several years onward.

It is all kinda sudden.

Date: 2005-06-27 02:20 pm (UTC)

Date: 2005-06-27 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com
Huh. I know cool people in Chicago, but I don't know if all of them could stand you.

By the way, would you work there or from elsewhere?

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