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by _5659 2233 days ago
I went straight into industry with an undergraduate math degree. My success was mixed results. One on hand, it was easy enough to find math pedagogy jobs that did not pay very well. On the other hand, it was easier finding data science / machine learning jobs that technically require and advertise lots of math but in reality are extremely dry logistics.

I have found some success in finding nonconventional programming jobs that have job titles seemingly generated by a bot where free-thinking and drawing up imaginative approaches is appreciated.

Math is everywhere, and every programmer could stand to learn or appreciate more of it so I say to you best of luck in your endeavors but be flexible, since almost nobody knows where they really need math until you explain it to them. A lot of the time math has served me the most because I've already seen a problem or its variants and I know a solution exists.