Hey good people,
that is an easy answer: I did not want to. Why I still studied it, is the topic of this post.
When I was finished school the question was what I now want to do with my life. I had to do the service first, so I had one year to make up my mind. I loved math, programming and cars. And well... in Germany you can make a lot of money in the automobile industry and so I decided to try to get a study one of the car manufacturers. I failed to get a study as an engineer for cars... They only offered me a study for a economy study with a focus on cars. At first I decided to go this route. Mainly because money was good and I thought I could do that. Half a year passed and just a few weeks before the start of a new life I decided that this is not what I wanted for me and my life. Dropped the secure money and decided to apply again next year. In the meantime I needed something to do and I decided to start a study in mathematics? Why? Because the basics of math you also need as a car engineer and in Germany you can transfer this lectures. So I started studying mathematics..
Well I loved math since I was young but there are quite some prejudices against studying mathematics. First of, that there is no way to earn money other than getting a math teacher in school. Second, that u will never use your knowledge in real life. In the first half year studying mathematics I realized that this is not true. We visited companies that offer many jobs for mathematicians, we learned that you can basically combine it with many other topics loke biology, computer science, economy and many more. We learned that if you combine math with all this you can easily earn money.
The money and future perspective was the one topic. But the other main topic was that I saw how much fun math can be. By all means, I did not enjoy every subject ,but most of them where super interesting. After realizing how much fun math was and that I will not end up unemployed in the end (an opinion that many people had and communicated) I decided to drop my plans for engineering and study mathematics.
My objective with this post is to encourage people. Don't let your environment influence you. Back in the days people and my environment influenced me a lot and was about to go the wrong path. Go your way. Enjoy.
