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There are lots of tech-savvy non-profits that need programmers. Here are a few: GlobalGiving - http://www.globalgiving.org/aboutus/jobs/software-engineer-f... DonorsChoose.org - http://www.donorschoose.org/blog/category/job-opportunities/ Kiva - http://www.kiva.org/jobs charity:water - http://www.charitywater.org/about/jobs.php Volunteer Match - http://www.volunteermatch.org/careers/ And thousands more at http://www.…
My advice would be to stay in academia -- with a PhD and 4 years of experience they are overqualified -- but search out inter-disciplinary programs, especially in computing. Collaborating with computer scientists (or becoming one) is a sure bet.
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It's not hard to see where it comes from, but intelligent people should be able to see the financial sector with a bit more nuance than knee-jerk hatred. There are many good reasons not to enjoy working there, but hand-wavy self-certain assertions that everything that goes on there lands somewhere between net negative and plain evil is just disingenuous. Go there, learn about it , make some money while you're at it.…
Where do you read "knee-jerk hatred"? The poster doesn't justify his opinion of finance, but that's not really the point of his post.
There are lots of tech-savvy non-profits that need programmers. Here are a few: GlobalGiving - http://www.globalgiving.org/aboutus/jobs/software-engineer-f... DonorsChoose.org - http://www.donorschoose.org/blog/category/job-opportunities/ Kiva - http://www.kiva.org/jobs charity:water - http://www.charitywater.org/about/jobs.php Volunteer Match - http://www.volunteermatch.org/careers/ And thousands more at http://www.…
The original poster is a mathematician, not a programmer.