Im not at all math savvy. In fact the opposite. I was having a conversation about math with a colleague and I realized that other than teaching i have no idea what someone with a math degree or a “Mathematician” actually does? Im curious now. Whats their day like? Who employs them?
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I work in science R&D, and my own specialism is data. An engineer gives me a metric buttload of data, often in a stupid format (seriously, screw .wfm files) and optionally tells me what it is supposed to mean. I work out how to work things out from it, then find the person who understands the system, sit with them and work the things out, then work with them to tell the decision makers (who are not in general experts) something that is simple enough for them to understand and yet somehow complicated enough to be a reflection of what we think the reality is.
I also take in regular measurements of a zillion things from a process that isn’t supposed to be changing, and work out if it actually is changing, and warn the people in charge of it if it is.
On top of this I do what you might call *natural philosophy* – I give people advice on how to run an experiment that will be able to answer the questions they have, and I give people advice on how to keep their process from changing.
In a school-maths-lesson sense, this counts as stats, programming and discrete maths.
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