For what it's worth, there are areas where you can do math-intensive stuff without a PhD. E.g. personally after not doing anything math-y for two decades I stu

For what it's worth, there are areas where you can do math-intensive stuff without a PhD. E.g. personally after not doing anything math-y for two decades I stumbled into a job doing image processing. There's also graphics programming, although I get the impression that can be extra toxic environment. However, https://twitter.com/sehurlburt https://twitter.com/sehurlburt will occasionally post links to companies that aren't toxic that are hiring people, and some of them are welcoming to people without prior knowledge of the specific domain. E.g. https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/1043182104140345345 https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/1043182104140345345