How Would You Rank the Stem Disciplines in Terms Potential Income? (employment, highest)

[Japanfan1986]

Meaning which one can you specialize in and hope to get a job with the highest income?

[bobsell]

Run away from STEM.

Despite the huge surplus of STEM graduates, we keep hearing about a fake "talent shortage"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/short...i-mba-cpa-pmp/

[JTE8369]

STEM IS NOT A GUARANTEE of a good life. I have a BSME from a Top 6 college yet my life has had many bouts of unemployment.

[charlygal]

Originally Posted by JTE8369

STEM IS NOT A GUARANTEE of a good life. I have a BSME from a Top 6 college yet my life has had many bouts of unemployment.

Nothing is a guarantee of a good life. Pursue STEM if you wish but he prepared to hustle just like any other job.

Sheesh. Are Americans that stupid to believe anything in life comes with a guarantee?

[bobsell]

Originally Posted by charlygal

Are Americans that stupid to believe anything in life comes with a guarantee?

STEM does come with a guarantee.

A guarantee of unemployment.

[sheerbliss]

Former engineer here. Left mostly because I needed a real job...not flaky, shaky temp positions. I was glad to leave because engineering firms were some of the most excruciatingly dull places I'd ever worked.

When I was looking for work a few years ago, one company was confused about which position I was seeking, since I had a BSME and my salary requirements were around what they paid engineers, but I applied for an admin position. The salary I was seeking--what they paid engineers--was what I was making doing admin work.

For further reading: https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/ed...isis-is-a-myth

[sheerbliss]

Originally Posted by charlygal

Nothing is a guarantee of a good life. Pursue STEM if you wish but he prepared to hustle just like any other job.

Sheesh. Are Americans that stupid to believe anything in life comes with a guarantee?

In other words, for all the hyperventilating about the STEM worker shortage, the job seekers (not employers) are the ones who have to hustle.

[bobsell]

Originally Posted by sheerbliss

In other words, for all the hyperventilating about the STEM worker shortage, the job seekers (not employers) are the ones who have to hustle.

The STEM shortage narrative exists to entire people to get in, flood the job market, and put downward pressure on salaries and benefits.

[Moby Hick]

1. Technology
2. Math
3. Engineering
4. Science

[MongooseHugger]

Originally Posted by bobsell

Run away from STEM.

Despite the huge surplus of STEM graduates, we keep hearing about a fake "talent shortage"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/short...i-mba-cpa-pmp/

^This. Plus, I'm watching how the educrats are pushing everyone in the "education" system. Everyone is being steered toward STEM from the guidance counselors to programs like Afterschool Alliance, etc. The huge influx of people in the field is going to pull wages through the floor.


With the competition from H1Bs, illegals (them "Dreamers" that sneak through and get full paid scholarships and then go into STEM), OPT students, and everyone else, employers are going to require a list of job qualifications the length of Moby Dick to get in.