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What opportunities/salaries/jobs etc. are open to math/cs PhDs that don't involve academia?

>> No.6674165

>>6674159
>>>/adv/

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6674167

>>6674159
>PhD in math
>Any job you want
>300K starting

>> No.6674168

>>6674159
Janitor in a prestigious university or a clerk fucking 14 year old girls

>> No.6674183

you better know how to code.

>> No.6674635

>>6674159
Research. Cryptography, machine learning, and computer vision are all exploding right now.

>> No.6674663

You make job opportunites yourself. Find a company, big or small and propose to them how your extensive math knowledge and skill would be beneficial to their company.

>> No.6674867

Quantitative Finance.

You can make huge sums of money. Also a lot of PhDs in math/cs/physics are quants.

>> No.6674875

>>6674167
uh, no

>> No.6674876

>>6674159

shitloads. do basic fucking research you pleb.

although if you want a job that makes special use of your high level maths skills, then of course your choices are much more limited.

>> No.6674879

high school teacher

work for a bank

work for a private research foundation or think tank

honestly if you are smart about it and make an effort to prepare for useful work and dont just take shit you are interested in you can find a job working in research in most fields, there are not that many jobs as they are fairly niche and their role is not immediately obvious but then there are not that many math phds either

also, pretty sure a cs phd can find a job as a higher level programmer

>> No.6675400

>>6674183
>>6674635
this. Coders with a decent mathematical background are rare and sought after. Our university had a series of talks concerning possible careers in computer science. There were quite a few mathematicians. One Italian dude worked with the petrochemical industry designing models for fault detection in their processing plants.
Also OP, every job search engine let's you specify what fields you are interested in, ever tried looking for - you know - jobs in mathematics?

>> No.6676088

>>6674867

I just finished watching this documentary about quants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2FWNWwE3I&index=1

It looks like a very lucrative business...

>> No.6678620

>>6674165
Well, this is the math and science board