What are some degrees that I can study that will actually pay me well after college and not result in me being some...

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Economics is well truly a useless meme degree

>having a degree
>not being a wageslave

Pick one

very high iq option that few can take

Err wrong. A science degree in biology, chemistry and even physics will not have the same job prospects as a CS, engineering (mech/EE/CE/civil/Aero) or applied math degree.

Although some physics grads have found employment in engineering firms.

You're other options would be getting into law (but only at a top tier school with internships and great grades) or medicine and do your residency in some other country like Australia. Finally you have trade school (working for a while and getting licensed then starting your own business where you wreck other people's bodies and not your own) or entrepreneurship where you coax normies into buying shit they don't want.

>or medicine and do your residency in some other country like Australia
Why do residency elsewhere?

there is a limited number of residency positions and so a lot of Americans go to Australia or to other countries. Medicine is one massive bureaucratic clusterfuck.

I got my medicine degree in Hungary and did my residency in Israel. Working back home in the States now, near where I grew up.

Are you Jewish?

This is also an option (doing your degree in another country - preferably in Europe) and then going back to America or wherever else.

Yes

That makes sense because of the large number of diaspora Jews in Hungary. Is undergraduate medicine in your opinion in Hungary much harder than in the US? My impression is that our cousins in Europe have a much more rigorous and tougher education.

The medical school system here is different than it is back home. American medical schools are very difficult to get in to, but once you're in, you won't drop out. I think it has less to do with the school hand-holding the students and more to do with the very selective application process, bringing in the cream of the crop type of students. In most other countries, anyone who graduated high school can apply for medicine. Getting accepted to Hungary was very easy for me. It was a complete joke. The difference is that in Hungary, getting accepted does not mean that you will graduate. Out of the 550 people there in the international program on year 1 day 1, about 120 of us made it to graduation. Most students leave in the first two years, either by failing, discovering that this is not what they wanted with to do with their lives, etc. Just about everyone got a shot, but not everyone really had what it took.

My father graduated from a US medical school in the early 1980s, and he said a similar thing as you did about your impression of the traditional European system.

How did you go to college in hungary if you grew up in states.

It's also worth mentioning that I never got a college degree. I went right after high school and although it was 6 years of education + living (abroad) expenses + flights, the tuition was low and the cost of living was also low at the time. In the end, I had under $100,000 of student debt at graduation. That number is everything, including my USMLE tests. I was fully licensed and ready for residency at that price.

Easily the best investment I've made so far.

Probably got Hungarian citizenship through his grandparents (Jews/Holocaust survivors), and studied there. Then went to Israel because of the right of return that all Jews can claim. Then returned to America where he was born.

I'd argue that you should go the other way, employers want to see a cs degree more than a math degree. Then teach yourself math.

The large universities have international programs, with many of the doctors and professors being people who were tenured in American universities for some time. America has a worsening shortage of physicians. It really is a shame that this isn't advertised more.

I am not a Hungarian citizen. I had a student visa on my American passport.

>In most other countries, anyone who graduated high school can apply for medicine. Getting accepted to Hungary was very easy for me. It was a complete joke. The difference is that in Hungary, getting accepted does not mean that you will graduate. Out of the 550 people there in the international program on year 1 day 1, about 120 of us made it to graduation.
Yep. This confirms a lot of what I hear from Europeans. You can get in pretty easily but they really do push you. Honestly, if I were an American employer I would be heavily biased towards East European university graduates irrespective of their school's ranking. In these public universities throughout Eastern European there isn't a major incentive to pass and graduate people because they get paid directly from the government and not through student loans. Unlike in America where the more people you get to sign up the more bucks you rake in.

But a math degree shows you are very intelligent and capable of thinking abstractly. I have a CS degree and I'd hire a math graduate any day of the week over a CS grad. CS theory is a joke. It shouldn't even be an undergraduate degree frankly. Someone who can higher level math like topology and real analysis can breeze through most CS units.

So where did the $100k come from? Can you break it down for me.

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Spend at least 4 years in an industry you take interest in and then after that take out that huge load you were going to use on your degree but start a business instead

Sure. The tuition fee was raised some years, but it averaged out to $9,000 x 6. I understand that my university has increased this a lot since then.
$54,000

Hungary has gotten considerably more expensive since I moved away, but at the time I spent about $600 per month on everything minus airfare. $600 x 10 x 6, since the university has a mandatory 8 week closed period in late July until early September.
$36,000

The remaining money spent was flights and USMLE, which is a very expensive series of exams. Fortunately I was able to work during some of my weeks off in the summer (when I wasn't doing required clinical rotations) and my parents provided support when they could afford to.

You're retarded or lying. Most fields are so oversaturated or require professional accrediation that you can't just "spend at least 4 years in". In most fields you'll need a bachelors to even be looked at, let alone interviewed and hired.

google exists in 2019, teach yourself. only get a degree where its needed like MD JD or RN

t. Bs and MS in CS and unemployed

bls.gov/ooh/mobile/fastest-growing.htm

I’m a high school dropout making $35,000 a year before taxes did I fuck up? Only doing this because I hate training and this is a chef job.

Almost all universities in east Europe are more affordable than American universities and will let you enroll.
Especially the Baltics

This. Data science and AI.

Civil engineering (if you can do math)

E is for Engineering, dipass

You cant expect to be a dropout and still make more than that if you are not a entrepreneur

>pay me well after college
>not result in me being some cucked wageslave

if youre employed by someone else, youre a cucked wageslave no matter how much money you work for