Do CS/ML instead.
I did a masters in applied math and I severely regret it. I feel cheated.
Despite the misleading name, there are no positions for an applied mathematicians in industry.
Your whole job market: a literal handful of small companies like MathWorks, the national labs and universities.
That is it. As you can imagine getting employed in all those positions is highly competitive. Pay is also relatively bad.
>BUT WHAT ABOUT MUH FINANCE?
It's a meme. There's multiple positions in finance, but the ones that actually employ math, those are the ones for IMO champions. In finance you'd have to settle for a position where you do very boring risk analysis crap or whatever. You don't need a particular math specialization for that. As for the high IQ positions where they employ geniuses. They don't really care about your studies.
Do CS instead or Machine Learning or Data Science or Statistics. All those things are basically the applied math that actually gets applied. You probably won't do a lot of math but you will be highly employable. Also research is exciting and very fast paced in those areas.
The point of this thread is a warning. Don't go into applied math thinking it is more employable than pure math.
BTW you can ask me questions if you want, about applied math or this thread or whatever.
I did a masters in applied math and I severely regret it. I feel cheated.
Despite the misleading name, there are no positions for an applied mathematicians in industry.
Your whole job market: a literal handful of small companies like MathWorks, the national labs and universities.
That is it. As you can imagine getting employed in all those positions is highly competitive. Pay is also relatively bad.
>BUT WHAT ABOUT MUH FINANCE?
It's a meme. There's multiple positions in finance, but the ones that actually employ math, those are the ones for IMO champions. In finance you'd have to settle for a position where you do very boring risk analysis crap or whatever. You don't need a particular math specialization for that. As for the high IQ positions where they employ geniuses. They don't really care about your studies.
Do CS instead or Machine Learning or Data Science or Statistics. All those things are basically the applied math that actually gets applied. You probably won't do a lot of math but you will be highly employable. Also research is exciting and very fast paced in those areas.
The point of this thread is a warning. Don't go into applied math thinking it is more employable than pure math.
BTW you can ask me questions if you want, about applied math or this thread or whatever.
