Errol, There is plenty of law which requires maths. I used to work with big city firms regularly on PFI schemes, and lawyers needed either the maths or more specifically, the conceptual ability to understand a maze of NPVs etc. I would have thought that applies to quite a lot of longer term complex commercial contracts. A friend read maths and wound up as a lawyer with an insurance company. Law often seems to be considered a generalist career, but there are plenty of areas where a specialist degree is useful, eg scientific patents, medical negligence and so on. Languages too, for some international work. Equally I have known people switch to law after experience elsewhere, including working for a council housing department and working for an oil company overseas.
Great to hear about grad jobs and dissertations. Grad jobs are interesting. Because DD was at a London private school, a depressing number are back, often from Oxbridge, starting jobs in the city. She does not envy them, or indeed the narrowness of their experience. Many of my son's friends, in contrast, seem to have stayed with academia, in a variety of different fields, though a good sprinkling of both sets of friends have opted for the public sector including teaching. I suspect the income gap will soon prove divisive.
DD graduated on Wednesday. She was genuinely excited. Her prep school head "did not believe in dyslexia" and essentially wrote her off as unacademic, and indeed seemed genuinely cross when a couple of selective secondary schools offered her places. I think that this and years of struggling with reading out loud, copying down notes, and completing timed tests, took its toll on her confidence. But now she has a First, and her photo will join those of her brother and cousins on her grandparents mantlepiece.
Rather late in the day Imperial told her she needed to be there three hours in advance, so plans for lunch had to be scrapped. Instead we opted for breakfast on the 40th floor of the Heron tower - luckily it was a clear day, and she chose Lemon meringue waffle. Graduation, which was huge as it was the whole of the engineering department, Then pub, pre's and clubbing with coursemates she had only ever seen on Zoom. A good day, though the next day where she had managed to negotiate taking an evening shift to allow her time to get the early train back, was a bit harder.
She is giving up her idea of doing her elective abroad, and is looking for something which links with her intercalation. So we may have her back in London again for a while. I hope so.