Physics/Math career paths involving Mandarin?

[yakeyglee]

Hi all! I am currently a college undergraduate in the United States double-majoring in Mathematics and Physics (and minoring in Secondary Teacher Education) as well as am passionate about learning and improving my Chinese as much as I can. Ideally, I'd like my future career to incorporate my major(s) as well as Chinese. My graduation isn't for three years, so it's not at all an immediate consideration, though I would be interested on you guys' feedback on some career paths that come to mind that could let me combine my interests in Math and Physics as well as allow me to use and practice Mandarin Chinese. Thank you!

Trevor

[jiacheng]

Some intelligence agencies would be interested I would imagine.

[icebear]

With just a bachelors, math or physics high school teacher in an international school in a larger Chinese city. Bigger cities have many such schools, and the renumeration, benefits and holiday are generally on par with those in the West, which make them a good gig in China.

Alternatively, teaching those subjects to Chinese students at a private boarding school. Renumeration won't be as good as teaching expat's kids, but is still better than your run of the mill English teacher jobs, and in line with your interests.

With a higher level degree you might be able to teach Chinese students at the university level.

I'm skeptical that you'd be able to do much simultaneously involving both your mathematics and Chinese in the intelligence community unless both of them were exemplary (i.e. graduate level math and programming relevant to cryptology, fluent Chinese).