What do Mathematician do?

When i first taking my degree in Mathematial Science, many people ask me "what will you do after you finish your degree?" or "will you be a teacher after you graduated?". Questions like that are very familiar among us, as mathematical science students. People outside this area do not know what are mathematician do. Some of us also do not know what are our specific job. For a long time we wonder that matter.

When I search in internet, i found a website about mathematician. AMS or American Mathematical Societies is a society for mathematician in US.

Mission of AMS

The AMS, founded in 1888 to further the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs, which

•  promote mathematical research, its communication and uses,

•  encourage and promote the transmission of mathematical understanding and skills,

•  support mathematical education at all levels,

•  advance the status of the profession of mathematics, encouraging and facilitating full participation of all individuals,

•   foster an awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and everyday life

From this website, i found a journal that will answered all questions and remove our doubt about mathematician.According to that article, when you are asked "What do mathematicians do?", you can say: I like to think we are just like lawyers or philosophers who explore the meanings of our everyday concepts, we are like inventors who employ analogies to solve problems, and we are like marketers who try to convince others they ought to think “Kodak” when they hear “photography” (or the competition, who try to convince them that they ought to think “Fuji”). Moreover, some of the time, our work is not unlike solving a two-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all in one color. That surely involves lots of scut work, but also ingenuity along the way in dividing up the work, sorting the pieces, and knowing that it often makes sense to build the border first.