I currently have a B.S. in Cybersecurity and I'm considering going back to school to study toward a B.S. in Pure Math. Like many, for much of my life I assumed I couldn't do math despite being interested in it. Now in my mid-30s, I realized that math is a grand puzzle and a skillset with wide applicability; an evergreen knowledge base to apply to a constantly changing world. I would like to be a math person who does tech, rather than a tech person who does math sometimes.
I am still paying off my loans from my previous degree, so I want to make sure that I am thinking practically and not just passionately. From what I've read, opinions are all over the place as to how employable a math degree makes you. I am hoping that the combination of degrees, despite them both being undergrad, would allow me to pivot into working with tech in a more stimulating, CS-aligned way while allowing me some room to take my talents to another field if I choose.
My previous degree was done online, and it would be very helpful to be able to do the same with this one. However I do not know if the medium is frowned upon when considering math and adjacent fields specifically. I know that networking and collaborative opportunities might be more difficult to come by going to school this way.
I welcome any thoughts and advice. I hope this doesn't amount to an exercise in intellectual vanity. I've never been so motivated to study something; I want to be one of you! I've been enjoying grinding out fundamentals on Khan, to close gaps and test my resolve but I don't want to expend a bunch of energy on something that will be a dead end.