I'm a mathematician from a very modern-algebra-oriented education. WE CAN LEARN ANYTHING. That is what our training as mathematicians gives us: give us the rules and we'll give proof of a certain property... almost everything works like that. We just have to want to learn how to do 'it'. Programming (what I am currently doing) works, but I am looking forward my masters' next year. IT'S NOT THE DEGREE that will help you, it's the TECHNIQUE OF LEARNING what is valuable about being a mathematician!