Computational Biologists bring together some of the "best jobs" in the US

Check out the WSJ article on “The Best and Worst Jobs in the U.S. – WSJ.com”

The top 5 are
1. Mathematician
2. Actuary
3. Statistician
4. Biologist
5. Software Engineer

Seems like I know a fair # of people who combine #1, #3, #4 and #5 although rarely in equal amounts. I am not sure if anyone out there combines all of the top 5 but there must be some scientist/actuaries doing this computational biology right? Seems like a pretty strange list to me in some ways, but I must say, being a mathematically inclined computational biologist is pretty fun. Now if I only knew statistics …

Hat tip to Lior Pachter for posting this to Facebook where I found it.

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Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis

4 thoughts on “Computational Biologists bring together some of the "best jobs" in the US”

  1. A statistical analysis performed by mathematicians showed that the best jobs in the country are held by mathematicians and statisticians? Shocked, I’m shocked. What an amazing coincidence.

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  2. Fine Fine Fine. And it is an amazing coincidence that I would write about this as opposed to the other “best jobs” lists that have seen, such as those for which a higher education is not useful?

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