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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 28 September 2014 09:29:59AM 3 points [-]

I think it's much better to take the skills you learned in math and then go into some field like biology, engineering or programming and actually apply the knowledge to important real world problems.

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For example, psychology is too important to be left to the sort of people who typically become psychologists in my opinion.