should i major in math or not?

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If elementary math courses bring you to your knees, I strongly suggest you don't major in math. Even if you work hard and pass your classes, don't expect anyone to hire you to do math, perhaps unless you want to be a math teacher. If you have ruled out teaching K12 math and getting a decent job is one of your goals, I suggest you study a different subject.

If I had the ability to major in math, I would have. It opens you up to anything. However, math itself isn't a job really. I would find a subject related to math that you like and focus on both. Engineering, for example, pays well and is all about math.

Also, make sure you are getting the right accomodations. A lot of accomodations you are offered don't work they way they are suppose to, and can even hurt you.

"It opens you up to anything" means that a math degree isn't good enough for anything. You will have to go back to school to obtain a graduate degree or take courses at the local community college. If the OP's goal is to obtain a bachelor's degree and be all set for the world of work then he is studying the wrong subject.



I agree. If the OP must study math, he needs to make sure his major(s) are math and engineering, or math and physics, or math and finance, or math and computer science. Math alone is a waste of the OP's time and money. If he was a math genius I'd tell him to study only math, but since that's not the case (I suppose he isn't a math genius, since he allegedly failed an elementary math class) he would be wasting his time and money if he studied only math. Say he manages to major in math, then, if he is lucky, he'll be invited to a job interview for a job that requires a strong math background; the interviewer will grill him on the spot, will ask him tricky math questions and he probably won't be able to answer them; and since he is posting on an asperger's message board, his interpersonal abilities are probably not good enough to compensate for his lack of math skills.

My suggestion: the OP needs to forget about math or double major in math and a marketable subject.

Hi DieHard. I am writing this to give you my support. Let me tell you that failing exams has nothing to do with your intelligence. I suppose you spend most of the class daydreaming and exams give you a lof of stress. Just try to focus a little more.

The only problem with failing is that people don't believe you can do a good job in that subject you failed. Because of course they don't have AS/ADD, so they don't know how hard it is to pay attention to the professor for 5 minutes without taking your mind faraway from the class. I have been through all of that, and i have failed some subjects too. Now i have a degree in engineering and working towards a phd. Go ahead and good luck.