Date:         Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:51:49 -0700
Reply-To:     David L Cassell <davidlcassell@MSN.COM>
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From:         David L Cassell <davidlcassell@MSN.COM>
Subject:      Re: Job Security? was Joe Security
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michael.marcus@ATOSORIGIN.COM replied:
> >>Programmers can be created by some kind of crash course but not
> >>Statisticians, hence no need to worry.
>
>I'm now several months into cleaning up my third "Rube Goldberg" machine
>of a SAS based data management and reporting application that was
>initially born and "developed" for years based on this mentality.
>
>The flip-side of this is that I worked my way through grad school in
>stats at a very large high tech company.  Out of the several stat/data
>related jobs I put in for after graduating, the attitude was: why would
>we hire you for this when we can just send an engineer to a stats class?

>
>Companies never have enough money to do it right the first time, but can
>somehow find the money to clean up the mess.  I guess that is what keeps
>some of us employeed!
>

Eschelman's Law:
There's never enough money to do it right.
There's always enough money to do it twice.

Keith said that about government research projects, but it seems
to apply *everywhere*.

David
--
David L. Cassell
mathematical statistician
Design Pathways
3115 NW Norwood Pl.
Corvallis OR 97330

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