Okay currently I’m in my second semester of going to a university (GCU). I chose accounting as major for whatever reason. Not that I don’t like my choice but I feel like there’s something better for me.
Interests: Talking with people, socializing, etc. (I’m a huge extrovert)
Skills: Pretty good at math (doesn’t mean I want to/don’t want to be a math major)
Dislikes: Writing
Is there like a “cool” math major with a lot of human interaction? The interaction can’t ONLY be business oriented
For example: if the only human interaction I get is helping a client fix taxes, I won’t like it. It doesn’t matter if I’m always talking to clients. However, if I have a team I work with all the time, that would work.
If there’s nothing math related is there anything else? Also, it can’t be a math teacher or teacher in general for personal reasons.
Does your school have an engineering program?
A couple things that come to my mind for you are sales and personal financial advising (http://www.bls.gov/ooh/business-and-financial/personal-financial-advisors.htm#tab-2). The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects 30% growth and many openings for personal financial advisors during 2014-2024 (http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_102.htm). I expect that accounting won’t give you the amount of human interaction you like.
It’s not the major, it’s the career.
The math major, and many math-based majors, may involve more solitary work - problem sets as homework, some solitary studying. Maybe there will be a group project or a couple in some classes, but a lot of your work in college will be solitary. That’s true of a lot of majors, though - a publishing exec may spend all day speaking with clients, but if she majored in English in college a lot of her time might have been spent writing papers alone.
But yes, there are lots of math-related jobs that involve talking to people. Epidemiologists spend a lot of time surveying and interviewing people to help track disease epidemics. Statisticians, applied mathematicians and data scientists may work on a research team and stay in constant communication with the main researchers about what analyses and algorithms they want performed on their data. Accountants that work for large companies (as opposed to for individual clients) may communicate pretty consistently with other people all year round. Actuaries and other risk analysts may work on teams and require communication with executives and other financial planners (although many actuaries do very solitary work).
Check out these career profiles of people who have majored in math:
http://www.maa.org/careers/career-profiles
Sounds like you want a quasi-major or a quasi-education. Do you want to avoid “hard” math? Are you looking for something that combines chatting with high school algebra? That is what your post seems to be conveying.
How on earth did you manage to get that from OPs question? Math careers that involves talking to other people regularly aren’t all careers that don’t involve higher-level math.
For someone like you I think you could really excel with a career in financial advising. The earnings are limitless but will take a while to gain experience and get high end clients. Basically you advise people on what to do with their money, reassure them if the markets down, and take them on trips and out to dinner. Some advisors can make upwards of 500k. Finance would be the major required and interning in financial careers in college would also be very helpful. This job requires socializing, people skills and knowledge of the financial markets and a little bit of math. Writing also is hardly required if at all. You would also be working with a small team normally.