JobsRated.com have put up, what they call, a comprehensive ranking of 2oo jobs (Hat tip: Cosmic Variance). As per the rankings, a mathematician has the best job in America, followed by an actuary, statistician, biologist, software engineer etc . Twelfth on the list is a philosopher. Yes, a PHILOSOPHER. If P.G. Wodehouse were alive today and involved in the rankings, philosophers would have made it to the top of the rankings. This is what he wrote of philosophy and  pilosophers:

There are situations in life which are beyond one.  The sensible man realises this, and slides out of such situations, admitting himself beaten.  Others try to grapple with them, but it never does any good.  When affairs get into a real tangle, it is best to sit still and let them straighten themselves out.  Or, if one does not do that, simply to think no more about them.  This is Philosophy.  The true philosopher is the man who says “All right,” and goes to sleep in his arm-chair.

from MIKE, A Public School Story by P.G. Wodehouse

Philosophers would have also beaten clergy to the top of the most satisfying job in Plum’s opinion.

For the sake of completeness I must mention that lumberjacks come at the bottom of the list, making it to the top of the 10 worst jobs in America.

Let me leave you with the question – Is there a “best job”?

To listen is to collect information except for people from authoritarian societies where to listen is to follow orders.

KuttiMe, Ananya, Anu, Kurumbu Princess, whichever name you reply to…..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE ANGEL.

Convex hull is my blog equivalent for the similar term in computational geometry, where I hope to bring my disparate and disjunctive thoughts together.

This is not a blog on computational geometry. I will occasionally blog on my research interests – systems engineering, energy, thermodynamics and optimization. In all probability, this blog will be on is on this and that (more on that and less on this) and nothing in particular.

I was earlier blogging at The Alterego Speaks… but over time found that even though my alterego had a lot to say the posts were few and far between. I hope to be more regular here and hence the new avatar.