Although my favorite degree to date is my Master's of Public Administration, many of you already know that my undergraduate degree was in Art Studio. I LOVE ART, but not as much as I love budgety things. This makes me somewhat of a pariah (or at least an enigma) among my parents' circles. Why math?
Math is actually a wonderfully creative outlet. It provides a set of rules (or, if you are bending the rules, a set of newly created assumptions), the safety of knowing that your formula will provide an answer that is beyond reproach, and the wildness of being able to justify alternative outcomes if you choose to change a single variable, assumption, integer, etc. Some of you know of my love of challenges and debate. The challenge (and many times, the debate) inherent in math is to *justify* your assumptions (and therefore, your outcome). That's so freaking hot.
Math is my third love (after my family and my kitties), and my first calling. Even though I still play the color game (that thing that all artists do when they try to decide what colors they would use to paint/draw something they see in life), I'm also thinking about quantity of paint, relative thinness of the medium, and the desired dimensions of a potential piece. In other words, even in art, I'm still obsessed with math.
Financial math is simultaneously a safe haven and a dangerous adventure. You have to stay abreast of changes in Federal regulations all the time (they change quickly, and noncompliance is against the law...). It is a challenge and a passion. Math is life, and one of the happiest callings that a little Introvert could hope to have.
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