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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What level of college/program? What minor? What electives? What personal skilled interests/hobbies?

Undergrad in pure math is a professionally useless liberal art degree. It's a gateway to science and technology like History is for law school applications. It's a general foundational education, not vocational. It's an enhancer to your other skills, not a skill in itself.
You need to combine it with something.

Entry level jobs include actuary, auditor, something in data analysis,  teacher in a district desperate for staff. 
If you have a secondary interest, more options open. [/quote]

you people are utterly clueless, this is why you don’t get your advice from the bone heads of DCUM. [/quote]
This is a pretty reasonable response actually. The people who go from math degree to CS are overwelmingly CS double majors or students who had a deep interest in computer science. You don't walk into a computer science career willy nilly and do need the technical skills. Combinatorics and Galois Theory doesn't just create Python script alone.[/quote]

IDK about that. I was required to program in my 400 level math classes and "walked" into a IT job straight from undergraduate Math.[/quote]
How long ago was this? The market isn't as hot and every year becomes substantially more competitive. Also, IT is a bit different in terms of expectations and training than software engineering.

What I'm getting at is there is this rising notion that a math major can bs there way into Dropbox when it is very difficult to do without some coursework outside of math. The most "coding" I needed for my math degree was LaTeX, and I maybe would've learned R if I took stats. If students with four years of coursework in computer science and participation in coding clubs and internships and different projects aren't getting jobs, you will struggle a lot more as a person whose already fighting HR to recognize your degree as relevant.[/quote]

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