Can someone please help me, i cant see my self in the future.

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<p>My problem is that the only subject im good at was (math)calculus, though i hate engineering. My parents had always told me to become a doctor or lawyer, but i told them that wasn't what intrested me. Now that i have gone through all these years of schools, its like no job pays even decent, anything with math doesnt look like it will get me anywhere...</p>

<p>CPA- 30K a year
Accountant- 34k a year..</p>

<p>Nothing seems good, have i wasted my money and time, and mostly some years of my life? I love math, and have gotten an A in every math course, though i can't see any jobs to apply to or to pursue a career in. Can someone please help me?</p>

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<p>Actuary</p>

<p>Think tank</p>

<p>CIA</p>

<p>FBI</p>

<p>NSA</p>

<p>Aerospace</p>

<p>Teaching</p>

<p>Seriously, lots of awesome options for pure math.</p>

<p>signed,
a math grad</p>

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<p>With a math degree, there’s very few fields you can’t go into so nothing to complain about. What about the entire fields of Business and Finance? Banking? Science research facilities? You can apply for any job that needs quanititative skills and also the jobs that don’t. Your math degree is basically a piece of paper that says you’re smart and worked hard at some point. </p>

<p>of course, the economy is in the toilet right now…but you’re better off than most college grads because quantitative skills are always needed.</p>

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<p>Alix, all a college degree says is that you passed your classes.</p>

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<p>No pvardc, a college degree says much more than that.</p>

<p>It says that you are not a homicidal sociopath, you have bare-bones hygiene, you don’t have major disciplinary problems, you can read and write at minimum a 6th grade level.</p>

<p>It says you have two thumbs, you can enter data into a computer, you generally follow orders, obey authority, respect deadlines, and you are interested in playing by the rules.</p>

<p>Everything they are looking for, for a corporate drone or wage-slave. Have a nice day.</p>

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<p>It just seems like becoming a doctor or lawyer are the only jobs that can pull more than 70k a year… Its like you wasted your time if your not going to be one of those.</p>

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nope sorry, doesn’t apply to all college grads. wasn’t the unibomber a harvard or yale grad, I forget which…? :)</p>

<p>@doctor123 - half my family is in finance, most of them only have bachelor’s degrees, and they’re getting paid a helluva lot more than 70k/year…most engineering jobs also pay around that much or more. there’s more jobs out there than just lawyer, accountant and doctor, you know…</p>

<p>I noticed you posted a question about med residencies - you already mentioned you’re not interested in medicine but now all of a sudden you want to become a doctor? not really the type of career i’d reccommend if you’re not genuinally interested in it; it will make you miserable otherwise. you’ll have to take on about $200k in debt and go through the grueling years of med school, work 70-90 hours a week in residency, and then spend the rest of your life in a career you don’t seem to want, in a high-pressure job that’s difficult and stressful with long hours. A huge chunk of your salary will go to malpractice insurance, salaries are declining, doctors have less freedom and autonomy over their practice, blahblah…</p>

<p>look, if you calculate hourly salaries, the engineer and lawyer end up with much more. Honestly, if you’re looking for a job that will pay you more than your current options, I’d go with one of those. you said you weren’t interested in them but you’re obviously not interested in med either, and that’s not the profession to go into if you’re going to half ass it and not give a crap.</p>

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<p>Alix I believe he was a Harvard grad and taught at Berkeley or osmething like that.</p>

<p>And yeah degrees like engineering, math all that stuff DO prove more than just “I can work hard on something for four years.”</p>

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<p>Try getting advice from your college’s career center.</p>

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<p>Perhaps you just need to give your crystal ball a good scrubbing.</p>

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<p>Doctor, don’t listen to these guys. Study something that’s in high demand.</p>

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<p>30K a year? Maybe if you live in the middle of nowhere in North Dakota where the cost of living doesn’t require much.</p>

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<p>DCHurricane is right. 30K a year is not a realistic estimate. More like 40K a year.</p>

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<p>I’ve never seen a “pure” math major in the Aerospace field. Aerospace engineering is not anywhere near pure math. Try google.com next time.</p>

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<p>things in high demand: speakers of Urdu, Pashto, Arabic, Farsi…</p>

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<p>I have a math degree and worked in Aerospace for 15 years, so suck it, gstein. They need analytical thinkers. :P</p>

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<p>I doubt you didn’t have a second degree.</p>

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<p>Not in math, no. What do you mean? Seriously, I went a long way and had a career with a B.A. in Math from UCLA. That was the OP’s question, no?</p>

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<p>"things in high demand: speakers of Urdu, Pashto, Arabic, Farsi… "</p>

<p>Can someone please explain how Farsi is in high demand? That suddenly just lit me up, im Persian ^^.</p>

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<p>mrscollege, if that’s your only degree I wonder what type of career in aerospace you had.</p>