Anyone fancy working in academia?

[AtW]

Point is I don't have to work for the rest of my life if I chose not to do so.

Ok, so you think if you are wealthy then it somehow makes you good person? It's not like you earned that money anyway - you just successfully run a few speculative real estate operations.

Maybe I should just become a vintner in France?
Any other ideas for the good life, anyone?

Maybe you should try to do a day of honest work in your life?

[sasguru]

I struggle to equate lecturing maths with the good life.

I quite enjoy maths - I'm sad enough to read maths books in my spare time

[AtW]

I have an MBA (piss easy) and a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering.
Can't be arsed to look up the modules for the latter - it was 20 years ago.
HTH

20 years ago they used COBOL and Fortran

Some still do

[sasguru]

Ok, so you think if you are wealthy then it somehow makes you good person? It's not like you earned that money anyway - you just successfully run a few speculative real estate operations.



Maybe you should try to do a day of honest work in your life?

You're such a simpleton, aren't you? "Good person", indeed.
You carry on working on your pet project if you feel like

[DimPrawn]

I quite enjoy maths - I'm sad enough to read maths books in my spare time

I could see you in some dead-end East End school teaching trig to the local ASBO champions.

[sasguru]

20 years ago they used COBOL and Fortran

Some still do

Or Prolog, Lisp and C.
What's wrong with COBOL and Fortran anyway - good honest languages.

[AtW]

You're such a simpleton, aren't you? "Good person", indeed.
You carry on working on your pet project if you feel like

Sure I will carry on, it is going pretty damn well so far. Thing is - even if I fail I will have done something, where as you, even when you succeed in making some money, will be a failure - I can just imagine guru telling his children story of his life: "... and then son I sold all my buy-to-let houses just before the downturn..."

[oracleslave]

The business world doesn't do it for me anymore.

I quite enjoy maths - I'm sad enough to read maths books in my spare time

I suspect you are looking for fulfillment in the wrong areas

[sasguru]

I could see you in some dead-end East End school teaching trig to the local ASBO champions.

That would be a challenge, indeed.

[sasguru]

Sure I will carry on, it is going pretty damn well so far. Thing is - even if I fail I will have done something, where as you, even when you succeed in making some money, will be a failure - I can just imagine guru telling his children story of his life: "... and then son I sold all my buy-to-let houses just before the downturn..."

At least I can have children to tell a story to.
I don't think you should be mentioning the word failure in your position, don't you think?