College May Not Be Worth It Anymore

Re:College May Not Be Worth It Anymore by professor_plum on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:03PM (#17093137)

Disagree. There are too many STEM students already. It's just that plenty of web development shops are okay with hiring a physicist. It's a waste of money and time to encourage more STEM education unless the student is actually passionate about the subject in itself.

The downsides of the current trend are:

- pretentious web development job posts requiring master's degrees in CS "or related field" (as if physics prepares you for jQuery).

- debt-ridden, unfulfilled scientists relegated to the above

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Re:College May Not Be Worth It Anymore by VikingCoder on Thursday May 17, 2018 @01:52PM (#17093632)

I have a STEM degree and I make more than twice as much as anyone in my family who does not have a STEM degree.

If there were "too many STEM students," wouldn't my salary drop?

> It's a waste of money and time to encourage more STEM education unless the student is actually passionate about the subject in itself.

I want people to not have to struggle financially so much. STEM is a pretty well documented way to get a stable job with a very competitive salary.

If you have other ideas, I'm open to them.

> debt-ridden, unfulfilled scientists relegated to the above

As though other careers are not debt-ridden, and are more fulfilling?

If you're getting "a job," you're already kind of screwed. If you're an entrepreneur, or happen to get extremely lucky to love what you're doing, or unless you've gone Amish, we all live with tons of debt and aren't very fulfilled by modern life. Am I wrong?

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