I took the SQL Expert Exam 1Z0-047 this past weekend. I sucked some big wind on this one. These Oracle exams are not meant to be easy. They are not some lame Microsoft Certification, that's for sure. Needless to say, I will be needing to retake it. However, I'm going to take the 1Z0-051 this time so I can move forward with the OCP Certification: Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional. Then take 1Z0-052 and get OCA Certification. Once I'm there I figure I won't have much trouble getting the company I'm working for to pay for the week long class I have to take to get OCP. Cool huh?
I'm working as a Database Analyst for Health Media, Inc., a company that was just bought by Johnson & Johnson 10/2008. Cool huh? Good place to put my Math background to work. I'm hoping to get into Data Mining. Otherwise, I will probably make a return to U Miami to finish the Ph.D. in Math. I have to be doing something interesting, otherwise I get bored. Regardless of what others may think of my ability, I know what I can do.
The question I almost always get when I tell people I want to finish a Ph.D. in Math, is "What will you do with that, teach?". I say, that's the number one profession among Math Ph.D.'s, but my last choice. I can teach, and I enjoy it too, but I prefer to take the road less traveled, so to speak. Maybe Financial Engineering, or Data Mining. There are lots of things Math people can do, even socialize.
Later
Good post.
Posted by: Maxime | April 22, 2009 at 01:47 PM