What are good careers in mathematics that pay a lot?

: What are good careers in mathematics that pay a lot?
I am 13 and I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up, I love mathematics and I am gifted in it. I am also gifted in language arts too, but I want to know what are really good careers that involve mathematics? They can have other subjects in that career too.

Also, please don’t tell that 13 is too young to be worrying about my career, it’s just that everyone knows what they want to be and they set out things and learn more about it.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Kelli Chang
Financing, Actuarial Science

Answer by Brucethemoose
Computer programming, or something in computer science is great. A ton of it is math, you get to be creative, and it pays very well. Not only that, but a computer scientists will be in high demand for all the foreseeable future, meaning that it will be easy to get a job even during a recession.

I know they use calculus and some statistics in the stock market. I’m not sure what the job title is, but you could easily go into business to make some money.

It’s great that you’re already thinking about what you want to do. Trust me, it’s alot better than not knowing when you get to college.

Answer by Prajna
Being an Actuary is a pretty good job. That’s what my mom does. You could also go into accounting.

If all else fails, being a college professor is a really good job

Answer by ∫[0,∞]f(t)e^(-st)dt = F(s)
Actuarial science is a great career for mathematics majors, and it is rated in the top careers overall in terms of ranking by a combination of pay, stress-level and enjoyment of job. Other careers involving mathematics are finance (very high pay, high stress, and most likely you won’t be able to have a family and a successful career in this area but you’ll be freakin’ rich), accounting (very boring and doesn’t involve any real math, just lots of arithmetic, but pays well) and a great example of a guy with a math degree in business is Herman Cain, the black guy who was the CEO who saved Godfather’s Pizza and a few other companies owned by Pillsbury (and he’s running for President). Other math-related fields include science and engineering, and they involve more advanced mathematics than that used in business.

At 13 years old, you probably haven’t seen real math yet. Most people don’t ever see it. You’ll probably only get a glimpse of it at the end of high school, and unless you major in math or science or engineering you probably won’t really see real math.

Also, the science and engineering fields are in desperate need of people that are both competent in science and engineering but also excellent at writing.