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"Cool" careers with maths

  • 16-06-2007 1:42pm
    #1
    SamHamilton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭


    Could anyone put together a list of "cool" careers open to people studying maths? I have English and Maths in Trinity on my CAO but I don't want to end up as an accountant or a banker so what are the "cool" jobs? I read people were working with ESA for example. Also, would I be at a disadvantage due to the fact that I wouldn't have a background in another science? Or is maths fine on its own?


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  • #2
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    The actuarial route is another career in the financial services arena, but it doesn't necessarily limit you to that sector once you've finished your exams. It's hard work to qualify though, but salaries are commensurate with the work.

    Other suggestions (depending on the specific discplines you've covered in your degree)...perhaps Research and Development into cryptography for some company that does online transactions.

    Stockbroking (in particular, dealing with derivatives etc) has a fairly complex mathematical side (in terms of pricing the commodities etc).

    Plenty of my friends ended up in careers wildly different from the degrees they studied, so you're not binding yourself irrevocably to one career path either. (Hint, ask Devore!)


  • #3
    rjt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 219 ✭✭rjt


    I asked this question a few months back, and got a lot of excellent replies - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055035872.

    To quote DeVore:
    People who left my year went to NASA, The Met Office, Encryption (setting up Iona, Trintech and Baltimore along the way), programming, teaching and banking. I dont think its a limiting degree, in fact I think that if you go into say Engineering then you can only ever really be an engineer without retraining. Maths allows you to decide later on where you want to apply your mind.

    Also, good luck, and see you in Trinity :D (I have Maths down on its own, but we should end up in the same group, methinks).


  • #4
    SamHamilton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭SamHamilton


    Great. Thanks.:)


  • #5
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    You could try Sports Trading, if you've got a big interest in sport. It looks really interesting and is well paid. It's something I'd definitely consider If I enjoyed watching sport on TV.


  • #6
    aequinoctium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭aequinoctium


    there's also the possibility of solving crimes such as you see on the tv show numb3rs


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  • #7
    maxi-twist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 310 ✭✭maxi-twist


    I know a chap doing financial and actuarial that went on experience with a cartoon maker as apparently these are all created throught maths or something,i wasnt really listening though.


  • #8
    :|
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭:|


    aequinoctium wrote:
    there's also the possibility of solving crimes such as you see on the tv show numb3rs
    heh I was about to say that


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