| Moire,
You seem to be of the mindset that just because you have a bachelors degree from a decent university that you're somehow entitled to a high paying job doing what you want to do. Well in short, the answer is no.
There's a lot more to having a successful career than just a degree and the job market is about making yourself marketable. Maybe you need to get some more schooling... these days a bachelors is almost the norm in many fields so you need a graduate degree to really set yourself apart. Also, just a bachelors in pure math often isn't as appealing to many employers as those that come from other highly quantitative majors but also posses advanced training in other areas.
Obviously it's impossible to know all the details from a forum post, but you do come across as if you have a bit of an 'entitlement mentality' that you somehow 'deserve' to be paid more or have a different job because you have a bachelors in math. That's not how it works. Everyone's career is essentially a 'competition.' Everyone has their own metrics (influence, salary, lifestyle...) for way constitutes 'winning' in that competition. If you don't feel like you're winning then you need to go out and work to make yourself more competitive in whatever areas necessary to get to where you want to be... be that more schooling or something else. |