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Anons which math major should i declare alongside CS?

For context i go to a top 20 american school aka a "target" school and a lot of alumni go into both financial tech and biotect. But its not an ivy league school.

Financial tech (Quant/Algotrading):
Pros:
>Consistentlly Good pay
>Located in big cities like NYC ( really want to live in a big city)
>Secure, unlikey to get replaced by "AI" and rebounding from a layoff shouldnt be hard
>Very mathematical work, closer to pure math
>Advanced algorithms work too i really want to research of some kind
>Fancy business clothing
>Smart people
>Hard working people. I want to live to work not work to live

Cons
>SUPER COMPETATIVE
>Its hard to be confident i can get a internship or job because its so competitive
>Most people in trading are former frat boys and greedy assholes
>Sexual harassment is a high possibility, at the very least its harder to break in as a woman and id have to prove myself more
>inherently greedy, i dont get to help people im just generating profit
>The work is all rather similar in concept, there is a limit to how engaging it can be after years
>You have to be secretative about findings, no publishing

Biological Tech (Bioinformatics, Computational biology)
Pros:
>Less competitive
>You get to help people and science
>Very diverse and interdisciplinary, more women too
>There are a lot of very engaging problems
>Never getting replaced by "AI"
>If its public sector you get to write a lot
>The problems are very diverse, the number of topics to be solved will never end because we will never stop learning new stuff about the human body
>Demand is probably going to increase after the "AI" bubble pops

Cons
>Often suburban or campus labs
>PhD basically required
>Pay is all over the place
>Not formal
>A lot of public sector researchers are immature and unprofessional
>In the event of a layoff you could be left searching for a job for ages

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