There's always a career on Wall Street. Most of large financial firms employ Math PhD's to build analytic financial models to predict the movement of stocks, bonds, and derivatives. They also apply financial models to activities such as risk management and asset management.

You'll still be doing a lot of heavy duty math and you'll be well compensated if you're good at developing effective mathematical models.
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There's always a career on Wall Street. Most of large financial firms employ Math PhD's to build analytic financial models to predict the movement of stocks, bonds, and derivatives. They also apply financial models to activities such as risk management and asset management.

You'll still be doing a lot of heavy duty math and you'll be well compensated if you're good at developing effective mathematical models.

The other option is to go to the pure science route and work for a research lab. Many research areas use statistical analysis to analyze experimental results and develop mathematical models for prediction. It's not as lucrative as Wall Street, but the work environment is closer to academia.