Tuesday, April 8

Numbers

Numbers

Numbers seem to be an essential part of my life. It is strange that I always find a job that works with numbers. Perhaps, it is my destiny:o) or I won’t be surprised to find a permanent job that deals heavily with numbers.

My first number job

As an assistant at ADRA, I was required to produce reports evaluating participant questionnaire, I had no idea at first. nor was there a single person to tell me what to do. I read past evaluation. Reading a manual, I figured out how to run SPSS calculations. I exchanged a few emails with professir Neil who actually created that evaluation. It was fun. I was fascinated with statistics when I made all reports. I liked them all:o) Says Zolo -coworker, "You will settle in a tabel of a statistical office". However, I left my job and forgot about it.

I thought I would pursue a job in world of words:o) My decision to study environment was very good. I read science, policy and management. All interesting, but there was limited time and requirements asking to crunch some numbers. Nor I spare to do so.

Here my internship comes. At statistical divisions of whole world. It was unexpected offer. But, I accepted it because I knew I would learn more about numbers. Yes, I do now. Indeed, it is very light at the moment. We all need to communicate with numbers to convience you on something.

On 6 April 2008, I went to CERN with my friends. I am thankful for Clemence who drove us all the way down there. In a few words, CERN is a huge physical place. They try to understand how the earth has formed and what it is made of. Referring to the workers there, it is true that CERN has not found anything major breakthrough for physics yet, though they created internet, yeahoo.

The most interesting fact was that statistics is the major tool to calculate all the important components of models and formulae at CERN. See, the number is back in bone so science :o)

Before it comes to real hard work, I will learn science of numbers in organized way for sure. In some extend, I am waiting for my number job:o)

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