When I tell people I am in grad school for math, I often get the question, “Do you want to teach?”  This is a pretty reasonable response, as a lot of people do go to grad school hoping to become professors and split their careers between teaching and research—probably many of you are in school for just this reason.  However, I am a master’s student, so I would have to finish my current degree program and start looking into getting a PhD before that was really a consideration.  I could likely get a job as a community college instructor or perhaps as a teacher at a private school, but as I am not a math ed major, I wouldn’t be able to teach public school unless I pursued teaching certification.  So what am I going to do with this degree?

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