Engineers and Mathmaticians.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

I'm an accountant. though I'm not sure if that qualifies for 'mathmetician'. All we need to know how to do is add and subtract. Although I always enjoyed my math classes - well, I preferred them to all my other classes.

If only I'd pursued math and become an actuary. I understand they pay much better than accountants.

Accountancy is quite mathmatical. I think. No wait I am thinking of something else. I can't remember.

[_Imwashingmypirate]

I had to look portmanteau up. Like "Spard" a spastic/retard? that's not nice, but spardis much softer and I get away with calling my brother it. XD I don't really, just when he annoys me. In scotland we use the word choob for an idiot.

[_richardMdBorn]

Mathematician (actuary)

[_Imwashingmypirate]

Cool, what do you do in that?

[_Boaz & Lidia]

Truth Engineer.

[_Ren]

Software Engineer.
Not a lot of use of any (what I'd call) 'advanced' mathematics day to day, but I took A-level Maths at school.

[_asbestosman]

but I took A-level Maths at school.

What is A-level maths?

Also Ren, being an audio guy don't you have skills in signal processing stuff or at least waves?

[_Ren]

What is A-level maths?

Also Ren, being an audio guy don't you have skills in signal processing stuff or at least waves?

A-levels are the qualifications you take before going to uni. A-levels are a way for you to 'qualify' for good uni's etc. Usually it's 16-18 year olds studying them. (You can leave school at 16 here with just GSCE's, or you can continue on and get your A-levels, and then onto uni etc.)

I did use some advanced maths at uni - exactly as you say for audio signal processing and such (Things like Fourier Transforms and such sound familiar... I think we used them to do audio spectral analysis of audio signals - to find individual frequency strengths and spread. Sound right? Heh - been a while....).
Did some DSP programming at uni etc.
...but I'm not involved in Signal Processing or stuff like that anymore. The PC software I write is all control software. Controlling a network of hardware devices. It's more windows UI, database access, TCP / IP stuff these days. Haven't actually done any signal processing maths or coding in yonks...

All that stuff I did at uni is only stuff I ever use when I'm messing around with my home studio. i.e. the course I studied at uni now only has relavence to my hobby! Wierd how things turn out...

[_Imwashingmypirate]

I did A levels, GCSE's, Standard Grades and a couple of "Intermediate" modules (equavalent to As's).

[_Mercury]

How many of you guys fall under this category?

Pirate.

(raises hand)

Network engineer, here!