>>12045572I got my bachelor's in mathematics and immediately started working for myself as a freelance mathematician. I solve my clients' mathematical, engineering, and industrial problems.
Example 1: I once got hired by someone about to put a patent on a card game; he wanted to know whether his rules for awarding points based on the hands one could be dealt matched the odds for actually making those hands. I sat down with him for a couple of hours, explained that his probability distributions were correct and why, and when he was satisfied that he could move forward and patent his game he paid me $500 cash.
Example 2: A friend of mine hired me to redesign the parking lot outside his bar to make it safer for drivers without reducing the number of parking spaces. I solved the problem and actually fit two more cars in the lot. He paid me $1,000 cash.
Example 3: I wrote a program in Python for calculating the maximum number of boxes of product on a delivery truck of given volume. A friend of my dad's bought it for $800, and another client bought it for $500. It was worth maybe 50 bucks in labor time, but I wasn't about to tell them that.
I also do some tutoring on the side, but my main business is solving applied problems. I suck no boomers' cocks, I work for myself, and I make more money than my code monkey friends.
