As the majority of the #2025 calendar year is coming to an end, it’s funny to look down “memory lane,” particularly when I thought that the #job#market was going to become significantly worse. Even if the #Federal#Reserve did not cut #interest#rates, it doesn’t matter because the point reduction that they implemented today is not at all consequential enough for companies to rush to hire #candidates and prospective #job#seekers again.
Instead, while millions of #job#seekers are waiting to see how things will play out, this year I have mostly been focusing on my #Mathematics projects. With the exception of three preprints on the #arXiv that I have posted this year, I also devoted significant time towards researching appropriate journals to submit my work to. As I even talked with a professor in #materials#engineering at a nearby school at one of the #Starbucks that I frequent, looking at appropriate journals to submit work to is extremely difficult for groups of researchers, let alone myself.
It’s not only difficult in the sense that someone could, potentially, have to reformat and fine tune #figures, #tables, and several other components of a #manuscript, but also the willingness of potential reviewers to look further into someone’s work. Even in the unfortunate cases that my submitted works have been #rejected, #reports from reviewers have always been of significant value towards improving the #manuscript for submitting elsewhere.
Currently, I have 21 projects submitted across a wide variety of journals. One submitted work is along more of the lines of a #survey, in which I generally talked about several #applications and #adaptations of the #quantum#inverse#scattering#method (it’s not on the arXiv, but generally draws upon a few works on vertex & Solid on Solid models). The other 20 projects are more or less what appears in the #templates that I have been updating throughout this year. I am working on updating the 3 remaining projects on the #arXiv, one of which is a shorter paper on #random#walks.
With an extremely #poor#job#market and #labor#sector where fudging jobs numbers to fit certain narratives is the norm, at least for now focusing on my #Mathematics projects is valuable. If a great #job#opportunity comes up, I would love to hear more about it, but I declined to move to #Texas, particularly around #Dallas, a while ago. #Relocation, in general, appears to be a very risky and speculative move for anybody. 🤔 #Corporations want people to relocate and then, unfortunately, lay them off anyways.
Pete Rigas
As the majority of the #2025 calendar year is coming to an end, it’s funny to look down “memory lane,” particularly when I thought that the #job #market was going to become significantly worse. Even if the #Federal #Reserve did not cut #interest #rates, it doesn’t matter because the point reduction that they implemented today is not at all consequential enough for companies to rush to hire #candidates and prospective #job #seekers again.
Instead, while millions of #job #seekers are waiting to see how things will play out, this year I have mostly been focusing on my #Mathematics projects. With the exception of three preprints on the #arXiv that I have posted this year, I also devoted significant time towards researching appropriate journals to submit my work to. As I even talked with a professor in #materials #engineering at a nearby school at one of the #Starbucks that I frequent, looking at appropriate journals to submit work to is extremely difficult for groups of researchers, let alone myself.
It’s not only difficult in the sense that someone could, potentially, have to reformat and fine tune #figures, #tables, and several other components of a #manuscript, but also the willingness of potential reviewers to look further into someone’s work. Even in the unfortunate cases that my submitted works have been #rejected, #reports from reviewers have always been of significant value towards improving the #manuscript for submitting elsewhere.
Currently, I have 21 projects submitted across a wide variety of journals. One submitted work is along more of the lines of a #survey, in which I generally talked about several #applications and #adaptations of the #quantum #inverse #scattering #method (it’s not on the arXiv, but generally draws upon a few works on vertex & Solid on Solid models). The other 20 projects are more or less what appears in the #templates that I have been updating throughout this year. I am working on updating the 3 remaining projects on the #arXiv, one of which is a shorter paper on #random #walks.
With an extremely #poor #job #market and #labor #sector where fudging jobs numbers to fit certain narratives is the norm, at least for now focusing on my #Mathematics projects is valuable. If a great #job #opportunity comes up, I would love to hear more about it, but I declined to move to #Texas, particularly around #Dallas, a while ago. #Relocation, in general, appears to be a very risky and speculative move for anybody. 🤔 #Corporations want people to relocate and then, unfortunately, lay them off anyways.
#opentowork #laid #off #job #market #federal #reserve #interest #rates #way #too #late #biotech #bankruptcy #bankruptcies #quantum #quantum #information #entropy #work #industry #failing #companies #ghost #jobs #fake #jobs #job #revisions #bls #biden #job #numbers #trump #tarriffs #inflation
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