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With Math (and Statistics), you can choose many different jobs. Economics Financial Analyst Engineers Statisticians (for govt) Computer Science Those young Wa

With Math (and Statistics), you can choose many different jobs. Economics Financial Analyst Engineers Statisticians (for govt) Computer Science Those young Wall Street-ers that score 6-7 figures income have strong Math background. I remember one of the commenters either here or in reddit said that according to his experience as an MIT student majoring in CS/E, graduate either pursue career in hi-tech or work at Wall Street as financial analyst. Goldman-Sachs came to my school looking for engineers, CS and math/statisticians. Morgan-Stanley hires engineer students from my school instead of Business/Commerce. And these jobs aren't IT related.

daniel-cussen 19y ago
I heard it's the same way at Stanford. CS, math,physics and engineering majors go to Wall Street, consulting, or Silicon Valley. Guys from Caltech frequently go to either tech companies, Wall Street or Grad School (and research/academia). Ironically, engineering firms (like Bechtel) don't attract as many engineers to build things like bridges because they can't pay as much for them. They get their engineers from less hyped schools.
aswanson 19y ago
From a money standpoint you probably can't beat Wall Street. From a mental stimulation standpoint it probably blows. Most people who go into a technical major probably do so because they want to create and learn. I don't think the majority who choose those types of (Wall $reet) gigs initially came out of high school saying "I'm going into theoretical physics and math to get a job on wall street". They just gave up on the dream. At any rate, if your goal is to make a lot of money, going to a top law school probably has better average expected return than a similar caliber school technical degree, with far less variance, as someone here has pointed out. But I can't knock people for trying to get paid.

daniel-cussen 19y ago

I heard it's the same way at Stanford. CS, math,physics and engineering majors go to Wall Street, consulting, or Silicon Valley. Guys from Caltech frequently go to either tech companies, Wall Street or Grad School (and research/academia). Ironically, engineering firms (like Bechtel) don't attract as many engineers to build things like bridges because they can't pay as much for them. They get their engineers from less hyped schools.

aswanson 19y ago

From a money standpoint you probably can't beat Wall Street. From a mental stimulation standpoint it probably blows. Most people who go into a technical major probably do so because they want to create and learn. I don't think the majority who choose those types of (Wall $reet) gigs initially came out of high school saying "I'm going into theoretical physics and math to get a job on wall street". They just gave up on the dream. At any rate, if your goal is to make a lot of money, going to a top law school probably has better average expected return than a similar caliber school technical degree, with far less variance, as someone here has pointed out. But I can't knock people for trying to get paid.