Ask HN: Jobs After a Math PhD?
I think if you want to make good money, then your realistic options are finance, crypto or AI.<p>I would pick AI, because it&#x27;s a growth industry with on-going innovation. You would also be able to work in many different kinds of applications. It seems like it would be fulfilling work.<p>You didn&#x27;t mention why you&#x27;re uncomfortable with trading. Finance used to be a great choice, but it&#x27;s not a growth industry now, innovation stopped after the Financial Crisis in 2008, and the industry has been saturated with PhDs for over a decade. Meaning math PhDs not in demand very much anymore in finance and most of the work is not very interesting anyway.<p>Personally, I wouldn&#x27;t pick crypto (&quot;blockchain&quot;) as a lifetime career.<p>Note that any of these career would require significant effort and learning on your part. You didn&#x27;t mention what your PhD in mathematics is in. You would be competing with PhDs who have done their thesis in something highly relevant to AI or finance and&#x2F;or have done a great deal of research on the topic before  applying for jobs in their target field.<p>If you don&#x27;t care about how much money you&#x27;ll make, and enjoyed your PhD work, then I suppose postdoc would make sense. If you don&#x27;t care about money and didn&#x27;t like the academic environment, then you could go into teaching relatively easily with your qualifications. Perhaps teaching &#x2F; lecturing at a private school or college, if not a university. I would suggest that you do care about money though, because it is an important factor in determining your quality of life.