Are there high paying mathematics careers?

I was kind of in the same boat as you. In fact, when I was considering the medical path, I too was wanting to study radiology! And I didn't for the exact reasons that you don't want to: takes far too long to get into that profession.

Engineering is a great path to take. You can start off making 60k a year straight out of college with a 4 year degree! Not bad.

Pair that with an MBA (you can even get this while working, and lots of companies pay for tuition!) and you can easily top 100k a year. Since youre good at math and science, school shouldnt be too difficult for you, giving you plenty of time to have a life. My entire moms side of the family are all doctors... and from their stories they tell... well, you pretty much have the idea.

And they have all confirmed that it was a lot of time spent.... however, now their rich and living their dreams in million dollar mansions.

If you don't want to go to medical school then reading x-rays and making 300+ is out of the question. Radiologist go to med school then do a Radiology residency. If by pharmaceuticals you mean being a Pharmacist then it will take as much time as much time as med school(without the residency) because it is a Doctorate degree.

They make over 100 but you have to consider that many students coming out of pharmacy school have 200,000 in student loans. So you may not be able to afford the life you expect you will making that much. You might consider Radiation Therapy and then going on to be a Radiation Dosimetrist.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.