Right after writing my big, long post despairing on the nature of available work, I read this set of posts about a really cool-sounding conference organized by some Columbia stats grad students:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2008/04/conference_what.html
http://flowingdata.com/2008/04/09/what-can-you-do-with-a-degree-in-statistics-a-follow-up/
http://flowingdata.com/2008/04/12/reflecting-on-life-after-statistics-rip-minghui-yu/
Granted, I’m not a statistician, but I think their lessons apply (hell, half the classes of my program so far have been statistics, anyway). [...]
