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Woke up with a hacking cough, headache, aches and runny nose. Figuring that temperatures in the negatives is not going to make it better, I stayed home. Right now, I am looking at 25 companies and seeing what they do and taking a peek at job listings.

So, from looking at the job listings, to get the jobs in my major, I have to be working toward the PhD. I have to be really good at statistics, and be an experienced programmer. This is aside from having 3-10 years experience.


I am none of those. I'm screwed. I originally wanted to do informational interviews with people working on interesting-looking projects, but I am wondering if that is useless. Hell, what do I tell them if they ask how I came to be interested in it and what my experience is?

I can write, I have a portfolio of linguistics and technical writing, but it isn't worth shit, apparently. How am I going to improve my statistics and programming skills anyway? If I do come up for a job, are they going to look at me taking basic classes after I earned my degree and assume that I am an idiot?

In other news, I did pay off my first credit card bill.