Jim Anderson
Position:
Lecturer
Employer:
University of Southampton, England
Job description:
I am currently a lecturer of mathematics,
roughly the equivalent to an assistant professor. My job includes
teaching several courses a year, various administrative tasks, and
research, much like a university professor in the US.
Job satisfaction:
I very much like my job; my only complaint
is that the salary scale in England is lower than it is in the US. On
the other hand, my teaching load is lighter than it would be in the US
(approximately 2.5 courses per year), so I have lots of time to do
research. The department here is very social, and there are lots of
people who do interesting things and like to talk about them.
Employment history:
After finishing graduate school in the
summer of 1991, I spent one year at MSRI in Berkeley as a postdoctoral
fellow, and then three years at Rice University in Houston, TX, as an
Instructor. Then, I came to Southampton. During that time, I also
had an NSF-NATO postdoctoral fellowship, which I used to visit the
University of Warwick during the summers of 1993 and 1994.
Suggestions for students:
I have never looked for a job
outside academia, so I don't have anything useful to say there;
however, my wife is currently working in industry, having gotten both
her undergraduate degree and a master's degree in applied math, and
finds that the breadth and variety of the math she learned to be very
useful, both in looking for a job and in doing the job she got.
Miscellaneous comments:
I think that my undergraduate
education prepared me exceptionally well for the career I find myself
in, and I would like to say thanks to everyone who was a part of it.
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Date of last update: Jan. 10, 1997
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