At first, I was kinda anxious about it, because after graduating highschool, most of my classmates went studying math, engineering, physics, meterology, biology, chemistry and so on. Most of them were pushed on this by their parents, who were academics themselves. I was a bit more free in what to chose, so I went with business administration and management accounting, because the university seemed appealing, I knew a couple of people there and wanted to move out of my hometown. Apart from me, just two or so went with history and something with social science. All the others: STEM.
This was roughly 9 years ago. But during the reunion, there was the general impression, that those outside of STEM were way more happy and successful than those, who went with STEM - both in financial as well as in personal terms. Even those who "succeeded" in their field were basically mental wrecks, who were quite open to talk about how horrible their time at the university was. And how they finally want to be financially independant from their parents, those phd with a phd.
Do some anons have a similar experience with this?
>Stem attracts liberals a lot. Finance degrees attracts more wealthy kids as they are more interested in investing. Marketing degrees liberals
I would not make this a libtard / cuckservative-debate, because I had the experience it being exactly the other way around. About 75% of my fellow students had to live on wellfare and jobs on the side, me not being an exception from this. And from the other 25%, none could be considered "wealthy".
Luke Wood
Well, you generally have to work a lot harder for less in STEM. And your competition includes some of the brightest minds society has to offer, many of which genuinely love their fields (making them all the more effective). Here's a lesson that's very much ignored these days: it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a little fish in a big pond. You'll be happier being smartest guy in a room with average intelligence than the dumbest guy in a room full of geniuses. Pick something you can master relatively easily, not something that will take every bit of blood and sweat you can muster to be mediocre at.
Anthony Robinson
post yfw you realize the >hodl meme is the equivalent to being a stemcuck who builds the infrastructure and keeps things stable enough to be speculated on by chad traders/non stem bois
So your take on this is, that there are too many people doing STEM?
Aiden Ortiz
people skills are always more important. poos and chinks have no choice, so they go stem. you are competing with literally billions of poos and chinks that are willing to work for nothing with a stem degree. Show me some well known business poos and chinks. Pro tip, you can't. So as long as you aren't a mildly autistic neet faggot, get a degree in business.
Parker Clark
Nailed it. Hodl is a cuck meme.
Julian Jenkins
Yes, I think that's a big part of it. STEM (and science in general) has a lot of cheerleaders, a lot of effort to get as many people as possible into it. This is good for the scientific output of societies, but bad for those that get directed into it without truly being cut out for it. It's also going to decrease wages and increase the difficulty involved in getting funding (something which I hear has become a huge pain in the ass) if there's a huge supply of scientists. And let's not even get into the whole student loans issue in the US.
because their identities are way too tied up to their shit jobs and degrees. most happy people are those who don't associate themselves too much with their careers. yeah they can have nice jobs, but at the end it just a means to have more resources to spend with friends and family.
no lifers make too big of a deal with their careers
