<p>Ok so sorry if this is the wrong section to be posting this in but I feel like engineers could provide the best response. I am currently in the civil/electrical engineering departments at my big state school and while I find it extremely challenging I also find it very rewarding. But of late I have began to consider other options which might be available to me, and in specific changing my major to mathematics. I have easily passed and thoroughly enjoyed Calc 1/2/3 already and I am about to start up DiffEQ.</p>
<p>So here's what I am looking for in response to this thread. If I changed my major to math what career options are out there for me. I have kind of preemptively decided that if I do change I would try to get my masters in math as well. Looking at the upper level courses I think I would enjoy most of them and although I don't want to be a teacher per say (even though its always an option) do you think in the future there will be jobs for actuaries/cryptology/ or other related fields and if there are available jobs how easily do you think they can be obtained. </p>
<p>I guess in general if you don't want to read this ugly wall of text I am asking what the future looks like for mathematicians not interested so much in teaching (but always keeping it an option).</p>