STEM graduates can't find jobs

[rosie_hair]

I'm sorry, I simply don't see a surplus in stem. Not saying there mud be a shortage, either.

At the end of the day, there are a lot more demand for someone with a stem degree than, say, art history. Every single person I've known with an art or art history degree is currently working minimum wage part time job.

[hoffdano]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

That probably contributes to the problem. We need STEM grads, but we still need people to learn other things too.

We really don't need more people with history, art, philosophy, or international studies degrees. There is an oversupply that will take a decade to absorb if the supply of grads stopped now. You don't need those degrees to work at Starbucks.

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Volobjectitarian

Fine advice, but to it you should add that should you pursue a degree in a field that is valued only within academia and has no value to a private market, like most degrees that end in the word "Studies", then don't gripe that your employment prospects in your "field" are limited to nonexistent. Lots and lots of waiters and bartenders out there with a fancy degree from a fancy school who should have stayed for their PhD given that teaching that same stuff is the only value in getting a degree in it.

Again, their lives, their degrees. Worry about your life and your degree.

Only a small percentage of the population at large has STEM degrees, and few if any of us are starving to death. We'll live.

Originally Posted by rosie_hair

I'm sorry, I simply don't see a surplus in stem. Not saying there mud be a shortage, either.

At the end of the day, there are a lot more demand for someone with a stem degree than, say, art history. Every single person I've known with an art or art history degree is currently working minimum wage part time job.

That's gotta be a HUGE exaggeration. That, or you only know a few people that have art or art history degrees.

Look, even if people get soft degrees, college grads don't work for minimum wage all of their lives. You simply can't make a case that they do.

Do they earn what engineers earn? No...i'm sure they don't. But most people in this world manage to make out just fine...STEM degree or not.

Originally Posted by hoffdano

We really don't need more people with history, art, philosophy, or international studies degrees. There is an oversupply that will take a decade to absorb if the supply of grads stopped now. You don't need those degrees to work at Starbucks.

*SIGH*

The idea that everyone with a soft degree works at Starbucks (or something like Starbucks) is simply horsedung. It's a flat out lie.

For the millionth time, even people with less than impressive degrees find their way into something that makes them a decent enough living. It might take much longer than someone with a tech based degree, but they get there eventually.