Follow the advice in http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers... and learn math. Once you have the skills to do the interesting stuff, you start to see opportunities to do it in the oddest of places. For instance I've been paid to do things like statistics and machine learning on "simple CRUD apps".

Maybe you won't be that lucky. But if you don't have the required skills, then you definitely won't be that lucky.

Incidentally a fun place to test the intersection between math and programming is http://projecteuler.net/. Besides, it is fun.