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Just out of curiosity, what was your main interest in undergraduate mathematics? What courses did you particularly enjoy? If your answer(s) are limited to things like abstract algebra, topology, and, God help you, real analysis, then you are pretty much in trouble.
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What, you've never hard of research?
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In short: I went to a top 40 school, majored in math, graduated with a 3.5 GPA, and currently earn less money than some of my high school friends who went to second rate state schools, studied subjects that only require decent memorization skills, and had GPA's lower than 3.0. One of them was a sociology major. He currently works at a bank where he earns at least $10,000/year more per year than I earn.
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Whole post smells of absolute troll, so not sure if it's worth a response.
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Teaching? No.
Math Grad School? Umm. What for?
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You go to grad school so a) you can spend time doing what you enjoy doing, that is, mathematics. 6 years of it, for a doctorate. You don't mind living on a budget? Perfect.
b) Then, you can become a professor. You don't like teaching? No problem, you have to teach at most one class a semester. Suck it up and enjoy working on research.