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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not going to read all of these posts, because this topic was sort of addressed in the thread about philosophy majors.

I started as a math major in college.  I was very good at math.  I enjoyed doing math.

But after speaking with people about what the high-paying math jobs were, I realized that I wouldn't want to do the jobs that pulled in the high salaries because I wouldn't want to do that 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (I'm talking about jobs with insurance companies, which at the time were the best-paying math-related jobs).

So I would likely go into teaching, and math teachers don't pull in salaries to write home about.

So I kind of decided at that point to just major in what really made me feel alive, and as much as I loved the comfort of numbers, my math courses were very dull (even higher level math).

In retrospect, I probably would have enjoyed physics more than math, but where I went to university, they didn't have a really strong physics program.  The math department was stellar, as was the biology department, but they didn't have much in the way of a physics program.  My understanding of biology was that you really needed more than a BS to get any kind of high paying job.  And even physics isn't a sure path to a high paying job.  There also was no engineering degree at my college, and while I was open to changing majors, I didn't want to switch to a different university.

So I switched to a liberal arts double major.[/quote]

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