Odds of Hanging On
Once you have that master's in Applied, Computational, or Robonautical Mathematics, you can breathe easy; that slip of paper makes you a mathematician-4-life.
However, if you come up with a bunch of bunk formulas or crackpot theories―or Arnold forbid, your ever-so-careful calculations cause the robots to rise up in a Skynet-like takeover of Earth―you could be branded a quack quicker than you can say duck, duck, goose.