>>13924075Depends on hat you want to learn - pure math or applied?
If you go the pure route or go the applied without gaining any specialization, then you can do academia and thats pretty much it. It requires a phd to have an actual career in academia, so you will have to study for a long time. The life of a scientist if you know what I mean - you get to do research and teach at college, but pay & career advancement are more or less limited to that - maybe you become a professor, maybe not. Overall academia is pretty much packed, so getting in could be hard (especially if you are trying to get into a more prestigious institution). Personally I find pure math "dry" and a bit boring because you usually dont see the use the point of it (what is its application), but thats just my opinion.
If you got the applied route and gain a specialization (physical mathematics, cryptography, mathematical finance, statistics, machine learning and so on) then job market possibilities are fairly unlimited - you can go into physics (the theoretical kind), engineering, banking, security trading, market analysis, insurance, programming (related to AI) and anything related. It is entirely possible to get a job just after a bachelor or a masters degree. You can also do academia as researcher of this specialized applied mathematics (academia requires phd), in which case things will be pretty much the same as in the previous case.
Conclusion: if you are still undecided of what you want to do, try to maximize your future options - do applied math and if possible try to gain some specialization you find interesting (or by looking at in what kind of jobs you might want to end up in). Also explore some other options if you dont have to decide right away
