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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day agoWell it’s hard for me to say what your professor really meant. If he meant “there are no jobs paying math undergrads to write proofs” then yes of course, no one but professors or rich parents would pay for that. But all he said was “there are no jobs for undergrads/masters/PhDs” which to me implies that math grads are no better off than high school grads at getting a job, with which I would strongly disagree.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
He said the only jobs for math grads were teaching math. High School Teachers in his country didn’t pay well. There weren’t enough professor positions for all the math grads and he struggled for a long time piss poor.
He saw his friends who took business, comp sci or engineering get high paying careers. He discouraged anyone from taking pure math, unless you were rich because it was a “luxury” to study it.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ahhh, I dunno what country he’s from but in my country (Canada) there are loads of jobs for math grads. The one thing you have to give up on is pure math. No business is interested in paying someone to write proofs.
I did a major in computational math with a joint pure math. I took a lot of pure math courses and loved them but there’s no practical use for them outside of academia. It’s like learning to write poetry.
However, the skills of a mathematics grad and the broad applicability of mathematics to many areas of business, engineering, and science are undeniable. Even someone who has only studied pure mathematics has a huge advantage over someone who has an unrelated arts degree, for example, all else being equal (personal hygiene, social and communications skills).
All else is rarely equal though. But that’s another matter entirely!