What I share with you here probably does not apply to you! Don't do what I did. But find general principles about what helped you

Ghanshyam Mehta gave great grades and showed me that mathematics is about much more than notation

• struggle and beauty: "proving this theorem is like climbing a mountain every step is so painful but the view from the top is truly spectacular"

• knowing something is different to doing something: "what does it mean to solve a problem if you already know that a solution exists? what have you done?"

Rodney Beard

• i taught the entire statistics class with venn diagrams. they have no idea what's happening.

• i wrote a paper about optimal lateness

• crossing a 4-way intersection - you should cross all the way round

• learn latex

These are safer and more reliable paths into a good job

Strategy boutiques The Big 3: McKinsey, BCG, Bain Second Tier: LEK, ATK

IT specialists Accenture, Bearing Point, IBM

Industry specialists Booz, Kurt Salmon, Oliver Wyman

Technical specialists NERA, Strategic Decisions Group, Mercer

The Big 4 Deloitte KPMG Ernst & Young PwC

Typical functions Audit Tax Financial advisory Strategy & Operations Technology

This is not a normal sort of team

Also revenue management - hotels, airlines, pharma Choose prices depending on competitors, weather, time of year, type of traveller

Also systems and processes - government child and family protective services Also network asset companies like pipeline operators

Especially useful in decision analysis when trying to understand values We use Principle Component Analysis to reduce high dimensional responses into a managable number of dimensions. Or, you can use cluster analysis to identify similar types of customers: early adopters, business users, holiday-makers, children etc.

Especially useful in legal work

Oil and gas and utilities

These are skills you can bring to any job!

Remember, too that m situation is unique to me...and your situation is unique to you!

What I share with you here probably does not apply to you! Don't do what I did. But find general principles about what helped you