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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How’s astrophysics and/or physics doing these days?[/quote]
Pretty poorly. Someone will inevitably respond that they can just get finance jobs when those are some of the most competitive jobs around and mostly aren’t hiring physics grads who have pretty narrow skills coming out of undergrad. Research funding is being cut left and right unless it’s DOD or DOE funded, and even then, Trump is implicitly leaking that funding over to contractors and private industry.

[b]I would just choose math at the undergrad level and hone in on probability, statistics, and differential equations[/b][/quote]

To what end professionally? Not being snarky--genuinely interested, as the math-dumb parent of a math major.[/quote]

My biggest regret was majoring in pure math. They will call you "smart" but they won't know what do with you and won't hire you. Your supposedly "dumb" friends who studied business all go on to find jobs easily.[/quote]

I’ve found my math degree to carry me just fine. Started as an engineering type, move to operations modeling and the product development. Made seven figures as a tech exec for many years now.[/quote]

Not sure how many years ago this was before the take off of the engineering degree,  but prevalent engineering degrees in different fields will more often definitely have the advantage for "engineering type" jobs over a math major in the tech field.  All you need to do is look at all the jobs postings for internships, co-ops etc. all stating preference for an engineering degree in whatever field they are looking for.  I just feel these days coming out of college you would be more at a disadvantage at least at the start of your career.  [/quote]

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