Okay, maybe someone here can give me advice on this. I've been out of college for a year now, and I'm starting to look into grad school. From what I can tell, most grad schools require three letters of recommendation, and most of them want at least one or two to be from professors. I have a Bachelor's with a dual major in math and philosophy, and I'm looking at going for a Master's or maybe PhD in math. My problem is that I was an idiot (and also have a very shy personality), and never made any effort to establish any kind of relationship with my professors. If anything I tried to avoid that. I have three work-related people (my current boss, my previous boss, and my boss's boss) who I think would all write me excellent recommendations if I asked. (I tutor math and physics, so my job is clearly related to math, but I'm a little worried that they wouldn't really have the expertise to say that I'm great at math, just great at teaching and know enough math to teach it at a high school level.) I have one philosophy professor who I think would write me an outstanding recommendation, and two other philosophy professors who would probably write me good recommendations, but I'm not going to grad school for philosophy. I doubt that any of my math professors would remember me though.
So what should I do here? I feel like I really need at least one professor, so my options are:
1. 2 from work, 1 from math prof
2. 2 from work, 1 from philosophy prof
3. 1 from work, 1 from math prof, 1 from philosophy prof
4. 1 from work, 2 from math profs
5. 1 from work, 2 from philosophy profs
6. Give up on going to grad school
I doubt I'd get all 3 from professors unless I really had to. #2 or #3 look the best to me. As I'm writing all this out, I'm starting to convince myself #3 is really the way to go, but #2 would be so much easier...
I live in the U.S. if that's relevant.