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Career options with Maths? (2 Viewers)
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zehurricane
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Math teacher?
kaz1
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you need a B Engineering to be an engineer
Shadowdude
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If all else fails: lecturer and/or tutor. =P
4025808
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ehh, both of these are probably going to be a last resort (although I'm considering tutoring 3U and 4U maths next year, depending on my marks)
Timothy.Siu
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nothing. 
mitchy_boy
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Unemployment, har har har.
mitchy_boy
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But a lot of Actuaries, not so much anymore, have plain of maffs degrees, and just did the IAA exams, and became associates and fellows.
Also, you'll be doing commerce/adv maths yeh? just do fins, and maths as majors, work in any bank, or insurance company.
Also, you'll be doing commerce/adv maths yeh? just do fins, and maths as majors, work in any bank, or insurance company.
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Main jobs available are professors, tuturors or secondary school maths teacher
mitchy_boy
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I'd only ever be a math teacher if I could teach at a selective high school.
You get to teacher kids who want to learn, and kids who've already learnt it.
You get to teacher kids who want to learn, and kids who've already learnt it.
4025808
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I think I'll be doing Comm/Adv Maths at UNSW, just hoping to get in, otherwise it's just plain Commerce/Science (maths major) if I don't make it
and if I don't make that one either, then teaching, here I come? :O
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Don't tutors make quite a lot of money? I mean, after all the advertising is done.
Most parents would pay good money for their child to be tutored by someone who scored a top mark in HSC Maths, and most are oblivious that higher ATAR =/= good teaching skills. You could exploit that and flaunt your 4U mark in their face. Every parent seems to want a maths tutor now. The period of time between HSC and Uni seems good to get a temp job as a tutor. It's a good secondary job, imo. I might get into it Defying talent, matrix and intuition is pretty fun. Them and their stupid posters at epping station...
Most parents would pay good money for their child to be tutored by someone who scored a top mark in HSC Maths, and most are oblivious that higher ATAR =/= good teaching skills. You could exploit that and flaunt your 4U mark in their face. Every parent seems to want a maths tutor now. The period of time between HSC and Uni seems good to get a temp job as a tutor. It's a good secondary job, imo. I might get into it
Defying talent, matrix and intuition is pretty fun. Them and their stupid posters at epping station...
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I said tutor as in university tutor, as in someone who teaches a tutorial at university.
LightXT
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Don't most Math's lecturers have postgrads...? It isn't easy to become an university lecturer, or so I've been told.
As for career options, try using google. I can't see too many opportunities for Pure maths outside of academia...although Applied is a different scenario.
LightXT
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They've already learnt it...therefore they aren't interested in what you've got to teach. More often, they'll ask you ridiculous questions just to troll you. That's how it works at my place.
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Most maths lecturers are doctors or higher. But yeah, if nothing else - Masters or a PhD is always appealing to me, so... perhaps the same will occur for 4025808 (did I get it right? =P).
Maths degrees have very wide applications - even pure maths. Sometimes, they just look for the analytical skills or just maths skills that a pure mathematician would have. Applied and stats have set topics, but pure mathematicians can slot in quite well in other jobs - from what I've been told.
Really? I'd respond with ultra hard tests and assessments designed to break their will to live. =P
4025808
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LOL dude idk if I really want to do a PhD or masters at this rate coz I might want to do something else in my life.. maybe debuting in the mandopop industry? :L
but then again I need some sort of job security so I asked this question...
at this rate, I'm thinking of doing pure maths but I heard it's crazy as fuck though...
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Pure maths is maths for the sake of maths. It gets pretty ??? pretty quickly, I hear. But you get to choose your major in like 2nd or 3rd year and you'll have some inkling of all three areas of maths so you can switch majors.
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People have started asking me about what I want to do with maths after uni...and I simply don't know - but I don't really mind either. It's such a broad and applicable area of study that the career will find itself, once you have a specific major in mind...I'm doing maths because I will love it!