{"id":231,"date":"2008-02-08T14:18:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-02-08T14:18:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:18:45","slug":"a-good-list-to-be-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/08\/a-good-list-to-be-on\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good List to be On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/3\/685\/632\">Sandy Holt<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spa.com\/\">Systems Analysis and Planning, Inc<\/a>. (and one of my contacts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/miketrick\">LinkedIn<\/a>) wrote to let me know that &#8220;operations research analyst&#8221; was one of the careers on MSN&#8217;s list of &#8220;Ten Jobs that pay more than $30\/hour&#8221;, albeit on the list at number 10 with a median salary of $31.08\/hour ($64,650\/year).  The description of OR analyst isn&#8217;t bad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"cb_style\"><span class=\"ArticleText\"><span id=\"lblContentBeforeAd\">Operations research analysts are brought into businesses and organizations to identify, investigate and solve logistics problems through the use of statistical analysis and computer programs. The type of problems can vary depending on the nature of the business, whether it\u2019s a production factory or the military.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find &#8220;logistics problems&#8221; and the misleading phrase &#8220;computer programs&#8221; a bit problematical, but it is not the worse description I have seen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Feb 10:<\/strong>\u00a0 Did I really not include a pointer to the article?\u00a0 It is <a href=\"http:\/\/msn.careerbuilder.com\/custom\/msn\/careeradvice\/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1283&amp;SiteId=cbmsnhp41283&amp;sc_extcmp=JS_1283_home1&amp;GT1=10884&amp;cbRecursionCnt=2&amp;cbsid=a059d0dff2c148da8a6688c15e258119-255993336-WE-2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandy Holt of Systems Analysis and Planning, Inc. (and one of my contacts on LinkedIn) wrote to let me know that &#8220;operations research analyst&#8221; was one of the careers on MSN&#8217;s list of &#8220;Ten Jobs that pay more than $30\/hour&#8221;, albeit on the list at number 10 with a median salary of $31.08\/hour ($64,650\/year). The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/08\/a-good-list-to-be-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Good List to be On&#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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}