<p>I know some people think I should be doing econ, cs or something else to make me a power house, but I want to try doing something different that I will enjoy. I plan to work hard on being a good mathematician, but I also want to do something artistic that I will enjoy to help me be more creative and get away away from equations and proofs.I was thinking music, any thoughts?</p>
<p>Well, how much money are you spending for your minor? Would it not be cheaper to start a music club, or get lessons outside of the school? Take what I say with a grain of salt though as I personally can’t relate; I think the CS, math, and science stuff is fun and the art stuff is boring! lol</p>
<p>What do you envision yourself doing with your math major? My daughter majored in marine biology which was a rigorous and time consuming major, but she did a visual arts minor and was very happy. She was able to incorporate art into her major with success. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Pick anything you like. A minor has little influence on job acceptance in your major field, but you can find really creative ways to combine your minor into your major. Econ and CS are common choice, so you’d have no competitive advantages with those. Music, visual arts and what not, there’s actually really fun intersections with math (and sciences in general).</p>
<p>Really? I thought your choice of minor could open opportunities up for grad school because you’d have many of the prerequisites done even if you dont decide to major in it?</p>
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<p>Problem is that there are no jobs for mathematicians outside of academia. Math is only useful as a tool in other fields. That’s why it’s so important for math majors to have a second area of concentration, either on the business, engineering or education side of things.</p>
<p>Many math majors do actually have a creative hobby, but I’d urge you not to let that hobby get in the way of your career development.</p>
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<p>I said minors have little influence for jobs/graduate school in one’s major field. If you want to switch to CS, engineering, etc. for grad school, then, yeah, if it’s not your major, you should minor in that. But that’s not what the OP asked.</p>
<p>And a career, like an education, is what you make of it. I recommend that any math major do at least a couple of computer science courses. I don’t recommend that all should do a minor in that. Sure, they’re decent skills to have, but there’s more to life than being a code monkey (and if you can’t get a job in your major field, like math, that’s all the “other job opportunities” that a CS minor will give you, all the failed mathematicians I know fall into 3 categories: teachers, finance related jobs or code monkeys; there is one exception of a dancer, who actually had a tenure-track faculty position in a top university, but couldn’t handle the pressure)</p>
<p>Do what makes you happy! Like blobof said, it’s totally what you make of it.</p>
<p>Personnally I dont see anything wrong with being an artist, musician, computer proggrammer (NOT Code Monkey!!), teacher, or working in a financial field. So, yeah, go with what ypure passoonate about.</p>
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<p>I don’t think its necessary to minor in music if that is what you are interested in. I would just take lessons and join a band. In fact, thats exactly what I did. I was a math major, but I played drums in the jazz band every semester of college. I loved it! There were two other math majors in the jazz band as well, one played guitar, the other bass. </p>
<p>You really want to learn to program if you are majoring in math. It will make it a thousand times easier to find a job after.</p>
<p>^ That’s exactly what I was trying to say! Thank you for brining an introversion to it!</p>
<p>Many math programs require a course or two in programming nowadays, or at least recommend them. It’s practically an essential skill in all sciences and elsewhere nowadays. You don’t need to make it a minor in CS though (I did a minor in CS, and I don’t regret it, but half of those courses have been pretty much completely useless to me since, and I took the bare minimum, using two math courses I was allowed to count toward a CS minor). Also, as much as I made fun of them earlier in the thread, not all programmers are code-monkeys…</p>