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when manufacturing was big in the US, there were lots of people saying they did not need a degree to make money. Those jobs are now gone.
Doh! I wonder what happened to all of those jobs? Why is the country $17T in debt?
We let the federal government have too much power. Just more proof that government is not the solution, it's the problem.
What would the average person pay $100 hour to do for you? Think about that - you are shelling out $100 hour of your own money...for what? I would put surgeon at the top of that list but what else can a single individual do for you to warrant that fee?
What were your internships in?
What is your statistical software and other programming capabilities?
Most math undergrad only majors I know are doing rather well, even from smaller liberal arts schools.
I never did an internship with a company, but I did work on a research project for my university. I have no good programming experience involving a full-scale software development project, but I have the classic programming concepts down to a tee (stuff like compressing text files, making your own implementation of a queue in your favorite language, etc.).
That might be true, but I have higher aspirations than most people. I would consider myself an underachiever if the best job I could get out of college was a Sales Representative. I'm a smart guy. I have good logical-mathematical ability. Right now I'm trying to write a plagiarism detection program that uses a lot of advanced mathematical concepts.
And yet you don't know how to find a job. Put your energy into doing that if you are so smart. Stop making excuses.
Then you'd think that companies would be calling me out of the blue, wouldn't you? That's what happened to my buddy who got an EE degree from my same university. He didn't even have to send out a resume. Companies started phoning him out of the blue.
Trust me, a bachelor degree in Math is not "lucrative." At my university it was usually a backup plan for people trying to get into competitive majors such as Computer Science. In my case, I chose it because I was completely clueless about what I wanted to do, and it seemed like a safe, generalist major. I should've taken into consideration the fact that it gives you zero marketable skills.
Then you'd think that companies would be calling me out of the blue, wouldn't you? That's what happened to my buddy who got an EE degree from my same university. He didn't even have to send out a resume. Companies started phoning him out of the blue.
Trust me, a bachelor degree in Math is not "lucrative." At my university it was usually a backup plan for people trying to get into competitive majors such as Computer Science. In my case, I chose it because I was completely clueless about what I wanted to do, and it seemed like a safe, generalist major. I should've taken into consideration the fact that it gives you zero marketable skills.
If you spend as many hours on practice interviews as you do on the 'net and TV, I guarantee that you will have a job.
It's not going to happen though. You rather waste hours on here.
How many hours a day do you spend on the 'net? How much is spent on tv? How many hours a day do you spend practice interviewing?
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I never did an internship with a company, but I did work on a research project for my university.
Well, this hurts, unless you wanted to go into academic research.
Most math majors I know work in programming or at think tanks or universities in statistical analysis, or in the energy sector. One anomaly has a full time lucrative job tutoring people for the GMAT. Interestingly, none of them have masters, which is rare nowadays.
How many hours a day do you spend on the 'net? How much is spent on tv? How many hours a day do you spend practice interviewing?
My problem is not my interviewing skills. My problem is that my background is not carved out specifically for any type of real-world job, and I don't know how to improve my background now that I'm already graduated and thus unable to get an internship. Companies want to know, "How much experience do you have with X?", and they will laugh at you if your "experience" consists of doing practice problems from a tutorial you found online in an attempt to try and justify putting X on the Skills section of your resume.
My problem is not my interviewing skills. My problem is that my background is not carved out specifically for any type of real-world job, and I don't know how to improve my background now that I'm already graduated and thus unable to get an internship. Companies want to know, "How much experience do you have with X?", and they will laugh at you if your "experience" consists of doing practice problems from a tutorial you found online in an attempt to try and justify putting X on the Skills section of your resume.
That's just your reasoning to make yourself feel better as you surf the web instead of working on the interviewing skills.
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