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MD here. A science or engineering degree is the way to go, if you want good paying jobs.
I agree medicine and pharmacy are among the most lucritive degrees. Engineering is usually good too. However many science degrees are nearly as wortless as the BA's.
BS in biology is terrible: Few jobs most pay less than decent blue collar jobs:
BS Chemistry: Fairly decent supply of jobs, but most companies have no use to hire chemists. They instead keep them via staffing agencies at low pay without benefits of any kind. They are just that disposable, same with biologists. MS just makes you slightly more attractive for the same BS level jobs. There is little to no increase in pay for an MS. Pay runs $15 to $20 an hour.
Ph. D. you have a 50% chance of getting one once you start it. Success has more to do if you end up with a decent adviser who cares about you instead of the many jerks who see grad students as cheap servants to do the grunt work.
Once you have it there is 1 Ph. D level job for every 3 to 10 candidates depending on your specialization. Most end up in post-docs sometimes for as long as a decade before getting lucky or giving up and leaving the field.
BS Chemistry: Fairly decent supply of jobs, but most companies have no use to hire chemists. They instead keep them via staffing agencies at low pay without benefits of any kind. They are just that disposable, same with biologists. MS just makes you slightly more attractive for the same BS level jobs. There is little to no increase in pay for an MS. Pay runs $15 to $20 an hour.
Maybe you went into the wrong industry. Walk into pharma with a BS or MS in chem and it garners 55-70k starting salary in my neck of the woods. First interview I had in 2007 gave a call back within 30 minutes and I was in. It was pretty easy. Of course, some would rather undergo torture than work for pharma, which is understandable.
I agree medicine and pharmacy are among the most lucritive degrees. Engineering is usually good too. However many science degrees are nearly as wortless as the BA's.
BS in biology is terrible: Few jobs most pay less than decent blue collar jobs:
BS Chemistry: Fairly decent supply of jobs, but most companies have no use to hire chemists. They instead keep them via staffing agencies at low pay without benefits of any kind. They are just that disposable, same with biologists. MS just makes you slightly more attractive for the same BS level jobs. There is little to no increase in pay for an MS. Pay runs $15 to $20 an hour.
Ph. D. you have a 50% chance of getting one once you start it. Success has more to do if you end up with a decent adviser who cares about you instead of the many jerks who see grad students as cheap servants to do the grunt work.
Once you have it there is 1 Ph. D level job for every 3 to 10 candidates depending on your specialization. Most end up in post-docs sometimes for as long as a decade before getting lucky or giving up and leaving the field.
I generally advise avoiding science degrees.
You might be right about PhD's but I don't see why you advise to avoid science degrees. If anything I would avoid business degrees sure every stupid store needs managers but they are generally treated like crap and you are considered replaceable because every other party boy out there that can pass English class and statistics class has a business degree. Not to mention you'll be working holidays and weekends.
You might be right about PhD's but I don't see why you advise to avoid science degrees. If anything I would avoid business degrees sure every stupid store needs managers but they are generally treated like crap and you are considered replaceable because every other party boy out there that can pass English class and statistics class has a business degree. Not to mention you'll be working holidays and weekends.
A science degree is a lot of hard work in terms of course difficulty and time in the lab. Why work your butt off to enter a field that pays less and offers less benefits and job security than a blue collar construction job? It just isn't worth it even if you like science.
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