Max Angell


Position:

Facility Training Coordinator

Employer:

Ft Jackson's Moncrief Army Hospital

Job description:

I teach a variety of software packages to the many users here at the hospital.

Salary range:

$35,000-$45,000

Job satisfaction:

I have been satisfied with my job. It involves a lot of people-interaction, and people's questions can be both very stupid and also very challenging. The combination of working with computers and with people is a satisfying match for me.

Employment history:

CIA 89,90
UNC Comp Lit Master's Degree Program 93
First American Bank 94
Science Applications International Corp 95 - present

Suggestions for students:

The best advice I have is "Don't limit yourself" unless you are looking for a particular job. My experience as a trainer/tutor in the Calculus Workshop at uga and my time as a grad student, teaching at UNC qualified me as a trainer in just about any field. With a limited background in computers to start with, I have been able to rely on my teaching skills to get me the training job and then my mathematical/logical skills that were developed in my math courses to learn all the computer stuff. So use what ya got to get in the door and then prove your intelligence with good, hard work.

Advisor/Student relationship:

Coming out with my math major, the only thing that I thought that I could do with it was go to grad school. I wish that I had some resources that might have pointed me in another direction or at least made me aware of other occupational opportunities. Anything that will allow people to see variable options is a very good thing.

Miscellaneous comments:

My mathematics major has been invaluable in the field of 'problem-solving,' something that is required in possibly every single job. The development of these problem-solving skills while solving the many proofs makes me a more valuable person in general in the work-force. When you look at a field like business consulting, all you are really doing is establishing a problem, the given (set of circumstances) and then the corollaries and theories (what has worked in the past, what hasn't worked in the past, what might work with a little inspiration) that you will need to solve that problem. Simple compared to any proof from Brian Boe's Abstract Algebra!

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Date of last update: Jan. 24, 1997

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