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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It's a brave new world, CS isn't even necessary for many jobs. Information Technology is in the Business school and we hire cybersecurity engineers from those programs. We hire former military with certificates. We hire Math majors for server operations, coding, program management, network engineering, etc.

Apply to local contractors.

You can also get starter jobs in finance, take the exams and work in finance.

Not every job has to be with FANG. [/quote]

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