To get into top econ grad schools, you need a lot of math. Ideally you major in both econ and math, but my impression is that majoring in math (with some econ) is better than majoring in econ (with some math).

https://economics.ucsd.edu/undergraduate-program/resources/how-to-prepare-for-a-phd-in-econ/first-steps/how-to-prepare.html

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Anonymous wrote: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.

you people are utterly clueless, this is why you don’t get your advice from the bone heads of DCUM.

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.

IDK about that. I was required to program in my 400 level math classes and "walked" into a IT job straight from undergraduate Math.

OP said pure math. Pure math is not programming.

What kind of IT job? Did you have any out of class IT experience?

I feel like you need to double major in Econ or something similar to be more employable

My niece graduated with a math undergrad degree 6 years ago. She worked as a HS math teacher, then transitioned to a project manager role at a large electrical/construction company, where she is using applied math and AutoCAD and other software to help develop plans and estimate job costs. She is really happy with the new role, and feels there is high employability and room for growth.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

you people are utterly clueless, this is why you don’t get your advice from the bone heads of DCUM.

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.

IDK about that. I was required to program in my 400 level math classes and "walked" into a IT job straight from undergraduate Math.

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.

If you did a more pure math undergrad and went to grad school for one year in math, but figured out it was not your program- how do you go into IT, already know Python and a few other programs. Does taking any of the certificate programs for Data Analytics or Data Scientist or IBM or Google certifications help? They seem really easy and quick.

Also, where would you look outside of LinkedIn, indeed, zip recruiter……. Any individual companies to target?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

you people are utterly clueless, this is why you don’t get your advice from the bone heads of DCUM.

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.

IDK about that. I was required to program in my 400 level math classes and "walked" into a IT job straight from undergraduate Math.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

you people are utterly clueless, this is why you don’t get your advice from the bone heads of DCUM.

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

you people are utterly clueless, this is why you don’t get your advice from the bone heads of DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Actuary.

this is not a reasonable response.

Why?

Anonymous wrote:Actuary.

this is not a reasonable response.

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.

Actuary.

It jobs in general

Whenever talking about STEM Careers, people promote the most outlandish and hardest positions to get- FAANG techie, Quant for Citadel, and I've even seen Cryptographer for the White House. What are REASONABLE positions that a person with a bachelors in pure math could achieve without a significant disadvantage?