<p>My bad for the double post.</p>
<p>Are you in college yet? If not, take a deep breadth and try to relax. You don’t have to pick a career at this time and not even a major.</p>
<p>There is very little you can do with math by itself. Math is only useful in applications and thus best studied in combination with another field. That might be physics, biology, economics, computer science, you name it. Math/health science related jobs might involve the statistical analysis of medical trials, modeling the spread of an epidemic, or studying protein folding.</p>
<p>If you are not in college yet, I suggest you don’t try to decide on a major until you actually start taking classes. Math at the college level feels different from high school math and maybe you don’t like it that much, or maybe you like it even more. Maybe you will love the lab work in your pre-med classes and decide to major in a science. Or maybe you will discover a passion for economics.</p>
<p>A few students do very well in college-level math, but math is not one of the easier majors. If your sole reason for studying math is to earn good grades, you might want to re-think your plans.</p>
<p>Yeah, I second the above heavily – please do yourself a favor (OP) and try to take classes in mathematics before deciding anything. Honestly, unless you give us a huge 3 page essay maybe answering questions about your tastes in academics, I don’t think it’s legitimately possible to predict how much you’ll like math in college. </p>
<p>One good question: how much does the idea of abstraction, and using it to conquer problems interest you? A big goal of pure mathematics is to give answers to <em>natural</em> questions in the common math realm, using well developed theories.</p>
<p>If that sounded like gibberish, please try some math classes =] you have time! G’luck! (Note - I understand your anxiety to select a major, despite advising you to calm down, etc, and take it slow!)</p>