• Question: Would you recommend your job to others looking for a career relating to Maths?

    Asked by rappinkfc on 9 Jan 2020. This question was also asked by tabithawood11, katieramsay, csantos65.
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      Christina Pagel answered on 9 Jan 2020:

      yes I would – it’s certainly interesting! And there’s a pretty well defined career path as well – undergraduate degree, postgraduate degree, postdoctoral research jobs (2-3 years each), lecturer, associate professor, professor…

      However, there is uncertainty at each stage and often people need to move cities or countries for work which not everyone enjoys.

      Luckily, there are tons of interesting jobs you can do if you are interested in maths! e.g. engineering, defence, tech (google, Amazon, Facebook, Uber etc), telecoms (Vodaphone), IT (Microsoft, IBM..), Medicine (Statistics, medical imaging, bio-mathmatics (particularly around genetic research)), finance (there is a lot of cutting edge mathematics in the finance sector – easily as hard as anything you do in academia – and it pays really well too).

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