Its probably the required degrees that are the problem, not the lack of people who like numbers and would want to have those jobs. Feel free to share how to get into the field quickly though if you know how.

Well I for one would be delighted to cross 35 years of software engineering with a maths hobby but I can hardly find anything.

The only place I did find declared that I didn't have enough maths without even seeing me or saying what kind of maths I would need for the role. From the JD it didn't sound too tricky: pathfinding for construction robots.

I dropped out of my Physics MS and my shitty job is now inventory spreadsheets. Fucking hate people trying to make them relational databases.

Engineers: So we had all this complicated theory, but no one can calculate that stuff by himself. Here's a linear aproximation formula and 50 pages of tables where you just look up the values for the factors given certain conditions.

Depending on the field, later in your career you can often skip the spreadsheets and get away with just saying, "That looks close enough,." If you have enough seniority people will assume you know what you're talking about.

Join the technicians in the field who get to laugh at engineers, its more rewarding

Edit: sales get the commission tho :(

As an engineer, this is missing a first bump where you stop doing "basic operations" still in school, and develop an intrinsic fear of "numbers and counting".

As another engineer, not at all 🤨

Computer engineer checking in. Same here!

I was gonna say the same thing. Advanced calc was the baseline for Engineering when I went to school.

The real math folks got into some crazy shit! Where’s the topology‽ Where’s the knot theory‽ Set Theory? Fractals and Chaos theory? Hierarchy of infinities? Where’s the Schwartzfeldt nonlinear matrix transcendence or whatever madness those beautiful nerds have cooked up‽

Uhhhhhhhh wow. My sympathies.

I must not break the finances.

If they're doing calculations in a table in word, then it's already broken :)