6 answers
6
Asked 722 views

What are some good careers for someone who doesn't mind doing math and also wants to help people?

Helping people for me is making people feel physically better, like medicine and fitness. #career-counseling #math

career-counseling math
Answer This

+25 Karma if successful
From: You
To: Friend
Subject: Career question for you
6

6 answers

1
Updated
Share a link to this answer
Share a link to this answer

Stephen’s Answer

Hi Marcus,

It's great that your interested in math and wanting to help people. When you say help people, do you want to have an immediate impact or work in a field that develops something that would help people. If looking for an immediate impact you can be a teacher or as you mentioned a career in medicine. If you are interested in a career that develops things to help people and your good at math, you can get an engineering degree. There are plenty of companies that develop technology to help people that need good engineers. Best of luck!
1
1
Updated
Share a link to this answer
Share a link to this answer

Rudy’s Answer

Hi Marcus

You like math and helping people - there is a field that combines the two called Bioinformatics or sometimes BioTechnology.

Math is used gather, analyze and understand large amounts of biological data. This biological data can be used to create new medications or discover the root cause of a disease or understand how genes work.
It is a great combination!

A couple of links for you to learn more.

Rudy recommends the following next steps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics
https://bioinfo.med.upenn.edu/
1
1
Updated
Share a link to this answer
Share a link to this answer

Brenda’s Answer

Hi Marcus!
Is amazing to read that you are math supporter! And hope you like all the other courses coming at College!
I'm not at expert in the matter, but it you are looking to help people feeling physically better you can always go for Nutrition. Good be great if you can approach someone who have followed that career path successfully and can share its experience.
Is such a wholesome and fulfilling career, even more considering that you will be advising people. A good nutritionist won't only build customized diets for its patients, but will also build a long lasting relationship of caring. You must know that diets are not just a matter of a few weeks work. Requires assessing your patients medical situation (full screening of blood, vitamin and minerals, functioning organs, hormones and more) to recommend the right way of eating to achieve their goal (whether is gaining, losing weight or just eating healthier).
All of this has behind mathematical calculations and many considerations of the calories, vitamins, carbs, proteins intake to have the right impact (and to that add the fact that the patient may do activity/exercise to adjust the diet and the final impact in the goal).
Doesn't it sound fun and accomplishing?
Is an advice! and having family members having followed that career, can speak by the truth of what they have achieved.
The best on your next step!
1
1
Updated
Share a link to this answer
Share a link to this answer

Mickael’s Answer

Hi Marcus,

It seems that if you like maths and medecine ...
- medical:
-- nutritionist
-- doctor
- engineering:
-- biomedical engineering
-- software engineering
-- environment engineering

for the few that come in my mind
1
0
Updated
Share a link to this answer
Share a link to this answer

Samantha’s Answer

Maybe you should do a career as a trainer or maybe a life coach. Also any position in the medical field as well
0
0
Updated
Share a link to this answer
Share a link to this answer

Emily’s Answer

Hi Marcus!

Your interest sound similar to mine. I graduated from Penn State with a degree in Math, minor in Stat, with the goal of using math to help people. Currently, my goal is to become an actuary, and then later become a calculus teacher. I was always worried my math career before beginning to teach would feel unfulfilling since I wouldn't be helping people the way I dreamed of. What I've learned over the years is for most careers, helping people is what you make of it. Right now, I'm a pensions benefit analyst. This may not sound like a career that helps people, yet the way I see it, I'm helping people every day get their pensions which hopefully help their well-being. I also help them with any issues they see or changes they'd like with their pensions. Additionally, I'm helping my teammates every day by helping to build out strong process documents and training programs. Before I even graduated, I felt this way working at Starbucks and PF Chang's. I felt I was able to help people by trying to brighten their day, even if it was just by writing a nice note on their cup/receipt. I was surprised how many people would come back weeks later and let me know how that impacted their day. I guess my point is, life is what you make it, and you can help people in big ways regardless of your career path. Instead, consider finding a career that interests you, and use that to help those around you. Additionally, you can find yourself part of an organization that helps people, so you help them indirectly(like being an analyst or accountant for a non-profit organization). You can also consider using your career as a way to fund whatever volunteer activity/group you're interested outside of work.

Though I wholeheartedly believe in the above, here are some career paths in math that also may help you find what you're looking for:

-Teacher
-Doctor
-Engineer
-Nutritionist
-Analyst/accountant for organization that helps others

Hope this helps! Best of luck!
0