Being skilled in math is now one of the most important abilities you can have in the modern age. In fact, math has always been highly valued because it's a foundational part of our entire society, world, and universe. Teachers in school have been trying to get students to focus hard on science and math programs, usually referred to as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), because they can open up some pretty amazing doors for those who focus on these fields.

Proficiency in math can allow people to find some pretty wide-ranging, and well-paying career paths. These options are just some of the many interesting fields of work you can find yourself in if you focus on math and are skilled in the subject.

Financial Advisor

It's only understandable that math and finance go hand in hand. Those who are skilled in math often find themselves in the financial field because this career is filled with number-crunching and understanding patterns. Financial advisors are more than just number-crunching and can take pride in knowing they are helping people set themselves up for financial independence or retirement. This article at Patch also highlights how financial advisors can reach some pretty great acclaim. Often in math-heavy fields, we forget how recognition for work is still valued. Financial advisory is definitely a good choice for people who find themselves enamored by number patterns, values, and statistical analysis. 

Carpentry

Surprisingly, people don't understand just how important math is to the success of a carpenter. Not all those who are highly skilled in math find themselves in math-only or math-heavy careers. Carpentry is a good hands-on career path that hinges on the use of geometry and measurement to make sure everything works well. The importance of math to a carpenter is the difference between a perfect cut of wood and an unsafe product. Using math in a real world setting is an important thing that many people look for when they are trying to figure out what kind of career they would like to pursue with their skills in the field of math. Carpentry offers a lot of time spent outdoors, and the ability to use math in a practical sense to build something with your own hands. This is a good field for those who don't mind hard labor with some pretty satisfying rewards.

Accounting

Another financial career path, accounting is a good way to apply the principles of mathematical formulas and statistical analysis to help people. This job is math-intensive as well, and it's a good way to apply a lot of useful concepts of math in understanding numbers, values, and other theories when it comes to money. The field of accounting is a good one, too. This job has a high median income, which should be enough to entice people to get the education they need to become one. Accounting is useful for the analysis of financial records and tax documents, and like a financial advisor, it offers some benefit in knowing you're helping others out with their important finances.

Economist

On the more theoretical side, economists are an essential job in analyzing trends in financial reports on a larger scale. As you can guess, economists are tasked with reading and reporting on the mathematical data that's being input and output by stocks, investments, and trading in the economy, as well as understanding the formulas and models to predict where the economy will head, what it will do, and what kinds of things need to be accounted for. Economists are a job for those that are really interested in statistics and probability, as this career is really theory-based rather than a practical application of math like in finances. Studying supply and demand, goods distribution, and other broad concepts is an integral part of this field.

Engineering

There are so many branches of engineering. It's easier to just account for them all under one general career field. The most common engineering jobs are civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, petroleum engineering, aerospace engineering, environmental engineering, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. This field is important for the maintenance of services or products, as well as planning, designing, and building things like planes, software, power grids, vehicles, and a never-ending list of others. Engineering has been a very steady career field with very well-paying jobs, but it's also tough to get into because these jobs are so sought-after, as well as incredibly math-oriented in both practical and theoretical manners. In any case, engineering is definitely a field where you'll find mathematically skilled individuals.

Architect

Combining the love of math and the love of art and design is where architecture excels. Many people who are mathematically skilled also happen to be very creative. Even though there's an assumption that math and the arts are totally opposite, this isn't entirely true. Music is heavily math-based, and so is art, which is why architecture is an interesting blend. The ability to design, draw, and bring to life buildings with an eye for aesthetic value and mathematically sound proportions is difficult, making architecture a tough but rewarding career. Architecture is almost a bridging of the gap between engineering, carpentry/construction, and urban planning. This is definitely an interesting career path because of the opportunity to use your math skills and eye for design to create real-world change in cities to improve the quality of life for people and create something new for the world to see.

Finding your dream career is one of the toughest things to do. You want to be able to find a balance between good pay, utilizing your skills, and of course, finding something you genuinely love to do. For those who are skilled in the area of math, you're in luck. There's a wide range of jobs available to those mathematically skilled people out there, and this list contains just a small portion of the fantastic opportunities for you.