Frontend or not frontend for a student who wants to earn money and loves not so much programming as mathematics?

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Freelance

Hello.
I have rather bold wishes, but still. I quickly cope with the material (gold medal, Unified State Examination for 251 in computer science, mathematics, Russian, the first session at the university closed with excellent marks). I study to be a programmer, 1 course. I love mathematics and have been friends with it since kindergarten. Now I need to solve a difficult task: in 400-500 hours of learning frontend development (I’m almost not zero, I took an introductory short course on HTML and CSS) to reach a level sufficient for freelancing (or rather, competing with "Indians" on Western exchanges like Upwork), making their "illegally" big dollars per hour (well, 8-10 bucks, on Upwork these are beginner rates). My English level is A2-B1, I also do it. Do you think that under such conditions there is a chance to cope with the task in the specified time?
There is another question that is difficult for me to deal with. In general, I would like to connect my professional activity with a mathematical approach to programming. But as I understand it, there is no way to monetize such programming on freelance (if I'm wrong, please correct me). Therefore, my eyes fell on the frontend. Why exactly 400-500 hours? Because I am at a provincial university: by chance, I did not have enough 1 point to enter Moscow. And if I can’t learn how to make money on websites during these conventional hours, then I’ll try to transfer to the 2nd year at another, stronger metropolitan university, where I will immerse myself in “my” programming (well, that is, it turns out that by June I won’t be able to monetize my knowledge, there will be no reason to stay in my hometown). I can not tell, which is delighted with the frontend direction itself. Yes, I'm interested in working with HTML and CSS, I think JS won't scare me for sure, but I'm already used to forcing myself to do something. But I would not devote my whole life to this direction. It's just the eyes are on fire.
I do not cling to layout, frontend. My head in terms of focused knowledge is almost empty. I can fill it with other programming. But what exactly? The direction, where the vast market, money, close connection between mathematics and programming, would be ideal for me. However, I don't know that direction. If you know, please tell me. In general, the main thing for the next couple of years of study is to get into a niche where I could afford to earn 8-10 (and more) dollars per hour for a small temporary investment (again, 400-500 hours of development). And if possible, outline a rough training plan for my term and goal. What to study and, for example, in what order? Thank you very much for your attention.

Answer 1

Eyes on fire with money. Well, yes, they probably pay a lot, but not for points on the exam. 400-500 hours is 3-4 months Fulltime, for such a period from scratch it is unrealistic for even such an outstanding professional in preparing for the Unified State Examination to gain sufficient experience. And with the experience that you manage to get, there will be not those amounts from which your eyes burn, but those from which they twitch

Answer 2

For a math lover, I think you won’t find it in the frontend. Look towards data analytics and artificial intelligence. There it is in demand, there is a lot of it, but a good base is needed. And it's not for freelancing.

Answer 3

golang

Answer 4

Love math?
Then the direct path to webgl and all sorts of wow projects.

Answer 5

Take a look at machine learning and neural networks. It's complicated math. Demand is growing very fast for these areas, and there are few specialists, because the direction is difficult. And the frontend is rather a dead-end path of development (it will be difficult to compete and keep up with the army of react/angular/view form-slaps).
P.s. Nobody wanted to offend. Frontender itself for more than 5 years)

Answer 6

BigData, ML, AI - in general, a backend, with complex algorithms, threading, optimization for high load and, moreover, low resource consumption (RAM, CPU), but not a frontend for a person who is passionate about mathematics.
Look at the Rust languages ​​​​(promoted by Intel), Golang (almost replaced Python, Google is developing it), you can also look at Python itself. If you really go deep, then of course C / C ++ and programming microcontrollers, drivers and the same compilers / interpreters, i.e. creation of other programming languages, because someone creates them too;)
And yes ... do not rush to earn $ 10 per hour, the money will come by itself if you become a worthy specialist. And you can only become like that if you love what you do. I think you will quickly get bored with the front-end and layout of sites and seem like a routine, you can get very upset in general in the profession of a programmer simply by choosing the wrong direction at the beginning of the path.
Accordingly, if you love mathematics, then it’s better to develop further in the related field, but if you still choose frontend, then after HTML, CSS and JS you can smoothly go into the back for the sake of mathematics on the same Node.js.
Good luck to you and most importantly, have a nice development, more interesting tasks and a smooth career ;)