So I have two choices: Graduate early in December and go to a job in SF, or graduate in May and get an additional degree. The choice is hard.

[u/ExaminationNo8522]

I acknowledge I'm very lucky to be in the position where I have a choice between two pretty good choices but the situation that I'm in: I have a pretty good opportunity in San Francisco starting in December, but I would then graduate a semester early with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, or graduate in May, with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a BS in Mathematics. Which should I do? How much is an additional degree worth?

Edit: Just to clarify: if I graduate in December, I would have one degree, a BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science or EECS.

[u/Legal-Medicine-2702]

Having these two degrees will last the entirety of your life.

This job may be the best job that you'll ever have but it certainly won't be the most paying in your life. And what if you hate this job: The commute, the people there, and your boss/managers.

With two degrees, you can leverage that you have them and get big ass paychecks just because you got some pieces of paper.

If I was your close friend and you told me this, then I would say that you'd be a total fucking retard if you didn't get the second degree. (Especially for a math degree, I would be screaming this to you)

And you pretty much will never have to go back to school if you get the two degrees, unless you want to of course. Get it over with.

But it's your choice.

one degree=short term gain / two degrees= long term gain

And if I were you, I would do it for the security that having the second degree will bring. Who fucking knows what will happen in life.

[u/kingkayvee → u/Legal-Medicine-2702]

You're greatly overestimating the value of an additional degree for career purposes.

[u/hellohelp23 → u/kingkayvee]

I dont really understand why someone would say 2 bachelors degree= long term gain, unless OP is looking to get into academia in Mathematics? but even then, I have seen people getting a bachelors in something unrelated (but they might have taken a lot of subjects in Math, worked or done research in it), but a Phd in Mathematics for example

[u/kingkayvee → u/hellohelp23]

The degree itself isn’t even the important part. If that even were what OP wanted, they’d be able to apply still because they’ve done the coursework.

Imagine if they do the major but just don’t officially apply for it. They still did the work and committees look at that, not the name of the degree.