{"id":1383,"date":"2011-02-09T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2011-02-09T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:37:05","slug":"learn-operations-research-make-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/09\/learn-operations-research-make-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Operations Research, Make Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ross_Ohlendorf\">Russ Ohlendorf<\/a> received his bachelors degree in 2006 and now, a mere five years later, he will be <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20110209&amp;content_id=16602036&amp;vkey=news_pit&amp;c_id=pit&amp;partnerId=rss_pit\">making $2.025 <em>million<\/em><\/a> in 2011.\u00a0 The degree was in operations research and financial engineering at Princeton.\u00a0 It just goes to show how far you can go in operations research:\u00a0 salaries in the millions are possible!<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Russ has some skills beyond operations research, since he is a starting pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates which, against all rules of logic or fairness, is part of Major League Baseball.\u00a0 Still, I&#8217;m marching right into my dean&#8217;s office and asking for a raise to match the highest operations research salary in Pittsburgh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russ Ohlendorf received his bachelors degree in 2006 and now, a mere five years later, he will be making $2.025 million in 2011.\u00a0 The degree was in operations research and financial engineering at Princeton.\u00a0 It just goes to show how far you can go in operations research:\u00a0 salaries in the millions are possible! Perhaps Russ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/09\/learn-operations-research-make-millions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learn Operations Research, Make Millions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs-in-or","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}