> For what it's worth, there are areas where you can do math-intensive stuff without a PhD. i agree. there aren't a huge abundance of such job opportunities, b

> For what it's worth, there are areas where you can do math-intensive stuff without a PhD. i agree. there aren't a huge abundance of such job opportunities, but there are a few out there. for me it was a few years doing development with splashes of applied operations research (discrete optimisation, liner programming, etc).