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[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]

Some millennial math professors don't understand computers at all, and some undergrad math majors have software or IT jobs based on their hobby skills, before even graduating.

It's not really about the degree or the coursework. It's about skills and smarts.

Most "Computer Science" careers are actually programming or IT careers. A CS grad can get a job easily, but maybe not the elite job they want. [/quote]

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