Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 13:38     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
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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.


DP. +1. My kid is a Jr math pure math and just walked into an AI job that pays $50/hr

I think you should read the post. How many math majors do you think walk into AI Jobs paying $96k?
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 13:38     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
actuary
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 13:37     Subject: Re:Reasonable careers for Math Major
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Anonymous wrote: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?


You don't need any certificates. You send a resume that names your non-school skills and your degree, and go from there.


So what job titles would accept a math major? Keep getting rejected for having wrong major in job opening.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 13:36     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.


DP. +1. My kid is a Jr math pure math and just walked into an AI job that pays $50/hr
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:54     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
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Anonymous wrote:One of DS's friends was a math major and now he works for the CIA. No idea of the specific job.


Secret Service will be hiring geometry specialists to figure out the sloped roof problem.

Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:51     Subject: Re:Reasonable careers for Math Major
It's a great degree if you are open to more education. I think that math works best for someone whose hoping to go into the social science fields, because most of them need people with good quantitative intuition.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:47     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
Anonymous wrote:One of DS's friends was a math major and now he works for the CIA. No idea of the specific job.


Secret Service will be hiring geometry specialists to figure out the sloped roof problem.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:37     Subject: Re:Reasonable careers for Math Major
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Actuary.


this is not a reasonable response.


Huh? It's maybe the most math job there is.


DP, actuary doesn’t hire on math degree alone, increasingly there are professional programs specifically for actuaries. Needless to say the job itself is running software, studying for the exams is the last math you’d ever do.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:35     Subject: Re:Reasonable careers for Math Major
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Actuary.


this is not a reasonable response.


Huh? It's maybe the most math job there is.

Exactly. My niece graduated from high school overseas and moved to the US to pursue BS in math. As a junior, she switched her major to Actuarial Science, and it took her additional 6 months to graduate. She is 28 now and already a director at a major insurance company, recently took the last Actuarial exam.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:26     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
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Anonymous wrote:If you are good at what you do, you'll find good jobs with almost any major.


barf "you can be whatever you want to be"

There are few professions/fields where this isn't true.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:13     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
Honestly I majored in math, got an MPH, and now work in health care payment policy. I think math opens a lot more doors than you’d expect.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:07     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
Anonymous wrote:If you are good at what you do, you'll find good jobs with almost any major.


barf "you can be whatever you want to be"
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:06     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
Would they be interested in Applied Statistics?
There are a lot of jobs in risk analysis that require a lot of mathematics.
Risk assessment for government (FDA, CDC, etc) or for business (insurance companies).
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:04     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
Anonymous wrote:I went into programming with a pure math degree. Yes, that was ages ago, but these days, I think it would be hard to get out of college with a math degree without some minimum programming experience. I also worked at an accounting (not CPA obviously) job for a bit.

You still can. Programming has very little to do with pure math as you know. DC just finished a math degree and can't code out of a tin hat if you forced the boy. I also think many math professors don't want to learn how to code either. It's just not necessary for the work.
Anonymous
Post 07/17/2024 10:03     Subject: Reasonable careers for Math Major
Anonymous wrote: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?


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