Originally Posted by master of none
Is there much call for pure mathematicians? My dad's job was a theoretical mathematician, but it's not like he had a lot of company!

The Math Olympiad training program of AOPS http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/School/woot.php is sponsored by

DE Shaw
Two Sigma
Jane Street
Citadel
Dropbox

the first four of which are hedge funds or firms that trade financial derivatives. Presumably they are interested in hiring students who are good enough at pure math to do well on a Math Olympiad.