>Fell for the STEM meme and spent five years working my way up to $30,000 / year
>tfw 16 year olds working at mcdonalds will now make the same amount
JUST
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/04/04/californias-minimum-wage-will-be-15-an-hour-where-does-your-state-stand/
Lol i dropped out in 9th grade and make 39k last year and have 0 debt
>>69930145
DELETE THIS POST
>>69929991
I dropped out of college and join the Navy for a few years. I feel kind of guilty after hearing how little you make.
Chemistry is pretty dope
>>69929991
Hello sir my name is Rajesh Singh I am here for the engineering job please.
Yes sir will work for $9.25 an hour very competitive sir.
>>69930323
Chem major here
Fun stuff
>>69929991
>>Fell for the STEM meme and spent five years working my way up to $30,000 / year
lol no way the average engineer makes that little
>>69930676
Eyyy someone understands, what's your focus?
>>69929991
Hahaha can't believe people still fall for the STEM meme or the university meme, I dropped out of university after realising what a waste of time it was got a trade and now run my own electrical company. Made £60000 last year (I'm 23)
I am 25. I received a Bachelor's in Information Systems. I make $100K USD/yr without working at a startup or living in Cali/NYC.
Do I bust my ass for it? Yes. But it's possible.
As far as a $15/hr meme wage goes, it will result in massive job cuts and replacement by automation.
If you went to college for 5 years and are 30k in debt to make 15 an hour then youre a dumb piece of shit
Minimum wage in Denmark is $21. Our toilet cleaners and burgerflippers make more than the average Amerifat STEM major.
No wonder all the refugees want to live here.
>>69930145
My stepdad dropped out in 10th grade and makes about 50k a year, would be higher if small business taxes weren't fucked.
>>69930954
And pay everything in taxes.
>>69930767
Don't know yet. Had a rough few years so I'm still going for my general associates in Chem. Love the labwork that has gone along with classes. Any suggestions hockeybro?
>>69929991
Whats your hours per week? Do you expect fast food workers to get as many or more than you?
>>69930887
>got a trade and now run my own electrical company
How did you get into that?
>tfw didn't fall for the STEM meme and did what I enjoyed, got a job doing it and make 60K
you should make at least 30k/yr as a grad student.
you fucked up op
How useless would an anthropology degree be?
>>69929991
What shitty non-STEM subject did you do that you like to pretend is actually STEM?
>>69930751
>implying OP was engineering
>thinking OP was even smart enough to complete an engineering degree
>>69929991
Post a timestamp of your degree, OP, or you are just another anti-STEM shill.
>>69931022
>>69930145
My wife's son dropped out of 2nd grade and makes 500k a year, no debt
>>69930887
Bullshit.
>Not just having a rich family
>>69931733
OP probably took psychology and considers it a 'science'
What people have to understand is that capitalism doesn't reward you for how much work you put in. It rewards you for how much money you can get in a short amount of time without being prosecuted.
>anti-STEM shills
Here nearly all our CEOs and even some presidents went through engineering schools at some point.
>got an eng degree with specialization in oil and gas
>graduated in 2011
>was looking for a job for a year
>finally got a job in 2012
>pay is sort of meh
>oil takes a shit
>I lose my job in Q4 2015
>no way I can find another job in oil and gas now
>applying for shitty warehourse/janitor positions
>in the meantime collecting neetbux
I fucked up pretty bad... My problem is when I was applying to uni my english wasn't too good, so I decided to stick to what I was good at (math, physics, chemistry). If you're not ESL don't even think of doing STEM.
>>69929991
"STEM is a meme" is itself a meme.
There's nothing wrong with trades, but your room for growth is small and the type of work you do is mind numbing compared to, for example, a mech e degree.
>>69931955
Sociology actually.
>>69929991
$15/hour in California in 2020 is fucking nothing. They just raised it to preemptively correct for inflation and gain political points. Stop crying you fucking autismo.
>>69932296
Why did you make the thread?
>>69931955
Exactly. My degree was in IT. Graduated with only $5000 in debt, got a nice Help Desk job right away. Busted my balls up the ladder for ten years, now at the old fag age of 33 am the Department Director making just under $100k.
I'm a computer science major and make 80k/year...
How did you fuck up that badly, 30k a year as an engineer? XD
>>69932296
Which isn't STEM.
Why must you come on the internet and tell lies, OP?
>>69932390
Why do people keep saying engineer?
>>69932122
Here in America, the more economically and politically powerful country, most of our biggest businesspeople and politicians were not STEM.
Do either of us have a point?
STEM really is a meme, though. Unironically.
>>69932459
http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/feb13/vp_0213.html
>>69932296
>OP not only studied sociology, but said he was in STEM for studying sociology
>>69931920
>my wife's son
>>69932577
Dont talk to him ever again
>>69932296
well what in the flying fuck were you fucking expecting? Go get a trade you fucking idiot and make some fucking money
STEM are literally the best degrees
Anything that isn't vocational isn't worth it
>Studying Architecture to become an architect
>Medicine to become a doctor
>Engineering to become and engineer
Anything that ends in ology is a waste of time, or English, history, geography unless you want to be a teacher
>>69932720
>tfw history is a shit degree
guess it stays a hobby
>>69932145
>oil and gas
Pretty sure you could've worked at Dubai at Africa or on a oil rig, get payed in US dollar and get an amazing salary.
You're holding yourself back.
>>69930901
24 here. Bach in Comp Eng. Savings and co op allowed me to graduate debt free and now working for one of the companies that I worked for in a work term
>>69932296
Haha get fucked. Sociology is the biggest meme degree ever, any fucking retard could get a degree in that bullshit subject.
>>69929991
>STEM
>$30k/year
You're doing it wrong.
>>69932513
That's because your elections are a shit show.
And most of the rich businessmen who didn't inherit a fortune made their fortune through technology.
>>69932872
How do you see that happening when rigs are shutting down?
>Dubai at Africa
These shitholes aren't safe.
>>69932296
hahahahahahah you don't deserve $30k/year.
this has to be a troll. well played
>>69929991
>>Fell for the STEM meme and spent five years working my way up to $30,000 / year
You did something wrong.
I went into the cesspool that is IT and make $75k + bonus at 25
If you actually went into legit STEM you should be making 6 figures.
>>69930954
taxes bro.
>>69933176
What's your bonus size on average? I'm an independent consultant and wonder why I've been missing out on.
>>69932720
Languages are pretty good degrees too Ive found.
>>69929991
here you go http://www.cisabroad.com/study-in-your-major/study-in-stem
now stop being a bitch
>>69929991
>Got to top tier business school on academic scholarship
>Get multiple internships both paid and unpaid while working an additional retail job
>Spend as much money as I want in college
>Leave school with no debt and over 10k in savings
>Currently making great pay living in comfy modern downtown apartment
>studied non-stem
>History
>got an upper second
>3.5 years later I'm earning £34k in The City, as a test analyst for a pension company
$48.5k dollars.
Not great, but not bad either. I'm in the top 40% of millenial graduates at least.
>>69931921
Probably not I'm 19 years old and gas qualified I make £165 day rate
>mfw making 75k/yr on autism money.
Liberal Arts degrees is still is the biggest scam, it's just that STEM kiddos felt they would have an easy time with their career once they finished their degree. But it's still about gaining experience in your field, making connections, being charismatic and knocking many doors. If you wait to make all those until you obtain your degree, well, tough luck.
>>69932296
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
>>69933326
>What's your bonus size on average?
7% 2 years ago and 9% last year. Can't forget about all dem benefits too.
>>69931920
>wifes black son
>>69933655
Fuck I'm in STEM and I regularly take LIb Arts electives. Haven't gotten less than an A on any of them, I don't get how these fucks don't get a 4.0
>>69932820
Yeah. I've got two friends who went with history (one actually got his in "classics," which is so ridiculous). They're now a miserable high school teacher and a laid back trust fund man.
>>69929991
Dont worry they will be permanently displaced from work in a year or so once robots take the lowlevel jobs away
>>69931920
Kek
>>69932541
>http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/feb13/vp_0213.html
top kek, OP
>>69933090
Then keep cleaning my vomit bitch nigga.
>tfw fell for the 16 GiB meme
>>69929991
>30k/year
I quite literally make 30k/year washing dishes for a nice restaurant while i'm still in college,
No, i am not trolling.
I'm not STEM but i could guess you're doing something horribly wrong or you're just bad at whatever degree you picked.
>>69933493
Yeah my cousin was on £36k at the age of 19 because his dad and his mates got him on some apprenticeship at his company and he was working on vehicle maintenance in an airport.
Env science is a lot more ffun than geotech shit, at least to me. I earn like 1-2k less than my eng coworkers, but env/geo jobs have quite a bit of overtime available. I just need to pass the env professional test in a few years.
>>69933868
I mean I've heard it's good if you're planning on going law, or if you can somehow land a gig as a professor in a good college or something, but it's a shame that my favourite subject is so shit desu
>Get degree in EE
>No internship
>Research experience
>Get 2 job offers 2 weeks after graduation
>65k plus awesome benefits
Jobs are there, just learn the stuff and don't smell bad in interviews
>>69933678
Nice work, keep it up. I was at the same pay range at that age but no bonus - never qualified due to switching jobs every year for my first three years, then I got into consulting. If you're generally the best at what you do definitely check that out - huge rate premium and you get to bill hourly for all that overtime people your age generally suffer through. You'll look like a genius compared to Pajeet and speaking legible English is a huge plus.
>>69934130
I'll probably move out of this kek country anyway, so you'll have to deal with it on your own.
Fell for the STEM meme (Bio), I'm halfway through though, so there's really no point in dropping out
Once I leave university I'm going to keep working in a bakery, maybe one day I'll own it
>tfw in medicine
>tfw patients suck and I wish did engineering instead
>tfw looking at the salaries of investment bankers
>>69934432
If you can teach yourself how to program in the time you have left, there are a fuckton of good jobs available in bioinformatics and biological data analysis.
New meme, y'all
>>69934653
When I'm not at uni I'm in the bakery... but that sounds good, is there a particular language you'd recommend?
>>69934432
The STEM meme doesn't involve fucking Biology. Biology is a fucking worthless degree and is for low-tier medical applicants. You fucks are doing it all wrong. Just because something can be argued to be a science, doesn't mean it's actually STEM.
When you entered this major in your freshman year, did you even think about what Biology majors end up doing?
>>69934347
>If you're generally the best at what you do definitely check that out
I've thought about it. It seems like there's a serious lack of people who "get" SDN (which is what I'm specializing in currently), so I'd probably be able t o find some decent business.
First I need to work on not being a turbo autist when dealing with executives, though.
85K year maintenance tech
tech school, with associates
$00.00 in debt
lol wage inflation
you do know if the minimum wage increases so does the base of inflation?
there is zero point in either raising or lowering the minimum wage, its all just a huge shell game.
but hey, you just enjoy yourselves and have a good time yeah?
Here's the reason why america is retarded and why everyone thinks education doesn't matter. Sure, there are some jobs that definition require a degree, and a lot of good ones that don't.
The point of and education is TO FUCKING IMPROVE YOURSELF, not to earn more money. College can also teach you how to be a better learner and take responsibility for your own education. No matter what job you're in, you're going to have to learn new things over your lifetime. Hell, even just in life you will. College can give you skills that prepare you personally for the future.
I think before anyone turns thirty, the need some kind of post-secondary education, need to work in the service industry for a few years, and work a manual labor job for a while, all just for improvement and life skills.
>>69930145
Dropped out after junior year of high school, and now at 43k. I'm 36, though and this might be my ceiling
>tfw accountant
Literally Excel: The Job
I only work 4 times a week. When its warm I go camping every week
>>69934432
Tell me more about the bakery, it sounds interesting. Im assuming its not a greggs or some other shitty branded one?
>>69934843
Not really, I just wanted to go to university
>>69931631
very
sorry anon. makes a good hobby though
>>69932296
>STEM major validated for another day
ty OP
Sciences have varying levels success. Technology is doing amazing but the jobs aren't amazing. Engineering is always in demand and have pretty decent jobs. Mathematics is the one STEM field that is actually suffering. I really isn't the degree that will make you successful. It's more time, place, luck, and hard work.
>>69933493
That's excellent. But your work is mindless and the ceiling for advancement pales in comparison to someone with an engineering degree.
>>69930954
Over 40% income tax
Over 25% sales tax
Socialism is a joke
>>69934804
Start with Python:
>http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
And then take it from there. As far as I'm aware, bioinformatics are mostly done in Python, C++ and R but Python is more forgiving to begin with and will give you a 'feel' for coding that you can carry over into learning other languages.
>>69934939
>college can teach you how to be a better learner
Buy a fucking book to indulge in self-improvement. Spending cash on tuition and a dorm to do that is fucking retarded.
>>69935269
>Socialism is a joke
Oh, I see... that's why countries like Denmark or Norway or the UK are doing so well
>>69934804
Ruby on Rails or .NET/C#. Also learn about RDBMS's, SQL, document/nonrealtional databases. There is a major lack of DB developers.
>>69935017
I do my taxes and keep my books in Excel. I don't need that fancy Quickbooks
>>69935162
You assume right, it's small bakery in a small uni city, right on the high street so it's in a good location
It catches the hipster crowd with cute little pastries and we also supply some catering services with rolls and things
I went to uni because I thought I should go, and I got the job really early on
>>69929991
Is it really that bad over there. I have a bachelors in IT which took me zero effort to achieve and I earn around $25k here in Croatia. Which is really decent by our standards
>>69934843
Computational biology and bioinformatics are growth industries just now and they're basically looking for biologists that know how to code. Shit's up and coming.
>>69929991
But don't you like being considered superior?
I mean it works for Asians.
>>69929991
I make 25,000 a year working part time in IT and I still haven't gotten my degree yet you mad fag?
>>69935458
looks like I have some research to do, thanks!
>>69935437
Convenient you're leaving our Spain, Italy and Greece. I can't speak for the rest, but after living in the UK for a year, Americans are on average way wealthier.
>>69935520
That sounds nice, do you bake or do you just serve customers behind the till?
>>69930901
Automated kiosks are the price they pay for 15/hr wages
>>69935520
that sounds very wonderful, i always enjoy walking into a bakery and taking in all the wonderful smells.
>>69934804
C#
Ignore the autists that will say otherwise. They're just elitist purists.
>>69935598
It'd be better to be a BMEN, physicist, biochemist or Chemist. Biology is the softest of the natural sciences, and it shows with all the girls running around in the department.
>become computer engineer
>don't attend most of my classes
>pass with 3.2 GPA
>impress who I thought could get me a positions
>he got me one
>have 85k offer right out of college
>at work right now, on /pol/
>took as little money in federal aid as I could manage and just applied to a stupid amount of scholarships (lied about my ethnicity for most of them)
>already have my debt paid off (what little there was)
Life is easy, I don't know how people fuck it up.
>also fell for the STEM meme
>mfw going to China to teach chemistry and biology
This is my fate.
>>69930145
Believe it or not I dropped out senior year and now make over 60k annually.
>>69935678
Started behind the till, now I just do whatever needs doing. I realise it's not investment banking but business is good
I'm seriously considering just working there, but I want to try for something in my degree field at least, and coding knowledge seems to be very useful now
>>69935738
I personally don't like Ruby on Rails but there is a well paying market for it and it is a lot easier for a newb to get started with.
I used 15 years of my life in schools and I make about 135-150 000 US dollars per year. Just pick a field that pays and stay in school until you're done. Manipulating people to drop out of school or making them think everyone can make it without school breeds niggers. You have to be lucky or have really good contacts to make over 100k a year without any school, so don't be dumb.
>>69935894
>(lied about my ethnicity for most of them)
I like to believe this is true, and you out-jewed the jews who set up race-limited scholarships.
>>69935794
Yeah but if you leverage it properly (which is why I told the dude to try and learn programming) you can earn big bucks.
You're fucked if all you want to be is a botanist, though, for example.
>>69932296
Really you goddamn chucklefuck? You take sociology and wonder why you don't make any money? Its because you wasted several years of your life on a degree that has no prospects for higher income. If you were smart, you would have researched the potential jobs and income before you decided to dedicated your college career to something. You think if you are going to sped four years doing something you would at least try and make an effort.
>coming out of a polytech institute soon
>economic factors have constrained my field of employment, but hardly damaged it
>pretty solid job prospects for a technologist of my discipline, even at an entry level
>pretty solid leg up on most of my peers in prior experience
>superb exit project
>reasonably connected family and friends
>shiny resume, cv, and business cards
fingers crossed, STEM is based as fuck.
too bad biologists can have their jobs largely done by robots now.
>>69936072
See, I'm Portuguese, which is just "Hispanic" enough that I could cheat my way through.
>>69935703
The smell is the best advertisement there is I think
This is great. I can't wait to watch all these cucks get blown the fuck out when their shitty businesses fire the shit out of them so that they can keep their core staff.
I work at a pizza place, I do prep in between deliveries. Just the movement up to $10 resulted in shift cuts... For everyone except the drivers, because the drivers are too important.
The best part is you just know they're going to try to replace us with drones or self-driving cars or something, and then all the stupid Liberals will ban them, because they're scared of drones killing birds or something.
I get my money, everyone else gets fired, California's economy continues to tank, I jump ship to Montana and live with all the Godfearing conservatives. See you later, fuckers!
>>69930323
Chemistry is what plebs do instead of physics.
>>69936151
That's brilliant, anon. Just do you.
>>69935894
Sure, life IS easy if you're a lay-down conformist who never leaves the Golden Path To Mediocrity. Everyone knows that.
Of course, there's a reason you'll never have any cool friends. You'll figure that reason out eventually.
>>69936151
I don't know why all white people don't do this.
>>69931920
FUCK I love the netherlands, ultimate jokes
>>69935579
koji faks?
jel to bruto ili neto?
>>69936336
My name is similar to Patty O'Shaugnasiefuckingirishname
Who /econ/ here?
>>69929991
If you spent five years in STEM and only make $30,000, you have no one to blame but yourself.
>>69935017
>tfw spent three years trying to learn Excel so I could get a job and move out of my parents house
>tfw Dad finally explained to me one day last week how you need to put an equal sign in front to make the formulas work
>>69935912
>didn't fall for the medical meme
>doing dentistry instead
>make more money
>work less hours
>easer 3rd and 4th year of school
>all sorts of specialties including oral surgery
>arts and crafts
>curing pains
>skills for the post-happening
>probably people will pay me in any currency around if I can fix their broken face bones, teeth, etc.
nice
>>69932296
thanks for the laugh faggot!
sociology = stem...
>>69936029
That's exactly why I mentioned it.
PhD in physics
>U N E M P L O Y E D
>N
>E
>M
>P
>L
>O
>Y
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>>69936290
>Golden Path To Mediocrity.
>Hurr Im a special little snowflake
Just do your job so you can afford a large white family
There is nothing more rewarding in life
>>69929991
I just got laid off from IBM. Best hardware engineer in the game! Anyone got a job for me in NC?
>>69934270
>Jobs are there, just learn the stuff and don't smell bad in interviews
what state? what school? top 50 program?
>>69935437
>Denmark's gdp growth in 2015
-0.6%
>USA gdp growth in 2013
+2%
Looks like you're running out of other peoples' money, Sven. A poor man can eat caviar for a day, but the rent's due next week.
15 dollars per hour?
Jesus m8 that sounds alot, how the fuck can you afford that shit?
DOSH
>>69936527
You're legitimately suffering from mental retardation.
>>69936290
>mediocrity
>now making 65k above the wage median
>in top 3% of earners in the country
Mediocrity normally means average folks. I don't work hard and enjoy life. That's the reason I invest in my hobbies.
>>69929991
It's not a meme, you have something those worthless burger flipping nigger clowns don't have, the knowledge to build an entire world to your liking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyH2D4-tzfM
only a moronic fool goes into STEM thinking the monetary gain resulting in getting a career was the true acquisition of wealth.
>>69936527
It's always a bad sign when someone older than you must explain technology to you
>>69929991
I went psychology and now I get paid a lot of money for rich people to tell me how awful they feel all the time when they're not on coke. I try connecting those dots and just get blank stares, they come back every week so hey.
Today one of them said she's a really charitable person because she didn't fire her now (visibly) pregnant housekeeper. She's still really worried about what her friend will think about her help though. Used those exact words, called her "the help" and everything.
Now that I think about it I love my job.
>>69929991
I went into STEM and I'm doing ok
>>69929991
Went to trucking school on my gi bill, it paid the school in full and gave me a 1, 400 paycheck while I went. I'm now at 50, 000 after taxes.
>>69934804
Seriously start with Python, plenty of big data jobs use Python, then go with C# or R ( for dem finance bucks)
>>69936544
Dentistry is top tier kike approved.
For some reason people who are actively looking for a jewy profession aren't told about it. It's so lucurative and so easy compared to medicine.. even in socialist countries dentistry is not 100% covered and people go to and pay fortunes to private practices.
Shlomo's secret, don't tell anyone.
>>69936694
It's only obvious after you already know the trick.
>>69936571
I've worked with some brilliant physicists. They were all software developers.
This threads are always such a shitshow because no one posts their age along with what they did and what they make.
Like if you're 38 you're situation was drastically different than that of a 26 year old in regards to job markets.
>>69935738
Python is also a widely used language, C#/Python are great starting points
>>69936993
It's probably the best bet, or big data, I did a lot of data handling and can code in Python, R and C# proficiently
>parents funding me through college so they call the shots as to what I do
>Doing CS, taking as many classes as possible since I got no job and have time
How do I make it brahs? How do I make sure I don't become another fuck up?
>>69936652
Your kek overlord is saying you're in recession.
>>69936594
>Best hardware engineer in the game!
that's why they laid u off
top kek
>>69936248
Physical chemistry/ chemical physics master race reporting in
>>69936806
Sorry pal, if you think 80k a year puts you above the mediocrity line, you're laughably mistaken. I know people who make that in a month, and I myself make about 4 times that brokering rail freight.
You are comfortably middle class. And as long as you have a "job," that's all you will ever be.
>>69935663
Or the fact all of those have people own less things and have less purchasing power than even Mississippians.
>>69930145
my mom dropped out of CC and then dropped me on the head and I make 40k making cheese
>>69935458
> Ruby
> MSFT
Cuck's technologies, don't listen to this guy.
Learn C++ and algorithms, once you are able to solve ICPC-tier problems you can land a decent job at a major silicon valley company
>>69930887
Same man. Only I didn't realize trades were the way to go until I turned 27. Had to start late. Better late than never though.
>>69937238
Ur ok in my book pal. Those proteins ain't gonna unravel their mysteries to us on their own.
>>69937170
Don't take as many classes as possible, don't follow the calendar, take 1-2 classes less than what is prescribed make sure to socialize, make friends with connections and ace every class you take.
>>69929991
Went to uni to do history, enjoyed it greatly, drunk most of the time. Now im in navy on $45k starting. 24 year old.
>falling for STEM meme
>>69929991
>STEM is a meme
You've posted this thread everyday for the past few days, you can stop shilling anytime you want.
>>69936571
who the fuck does phD in physics?
you'll be doing academia for the rest of your life.... assuming u have no other experience. sorry senpai
>>69929991
>go to school for 2 years total and get my paramedic license
>$10,000 total
>get employed within month of receiving license
>make $46,000 my first year working 170 days out of the yeah
>>69937282
My offer out of college was 85k. I make 115k now.
> I know people who make that in a month, and I myself make about 4 times that brokering rail freight.
>I like to go on the internet and lie
It always astounds me how many people on /pol/ and multimillionaires. By the claims it's around 5% of the posters. I don't believe you m8. Unless you got some proof (which is easy to show off) you're just blowing steam.
>>69929991
Bruh i'm still in community college and make ~$70k/year
at an engineering firm. Get gud nerd.
>>69937427
What role in the Navy?
>>69930954
>what is cost of living
The average house where I live would get you a mansion in many parts of the US.
>>69935372
>>69934804
Current bioinformatics student. Can confirm python is the language to go, also java, R and perl. Have some knowledge about databases and SQL as well.
>>69931186
Not the leaf but I just got accepted into a few schools for PhD program, vast majority of people are organic or inorganic focus, I do physical chemistry (the focus no one wants to do) so I had research groups fighting over me at each school I was accepted to. Physical is by far the most interesting field for me but what I've heard is if you just want a good paying job go analytical
>>69932145
Good now fuck off Henry Zhang
>>69930145
I never went to nursery, was raised in an abusive household, became a crack addict at the age of 14 and am now making over 5 million Pound Sterling annually
>>69937599
Thanks for the advice, good luck!
>>69931920
kek'd
I study physics at uni, not really for the employment opportunities but because I just like it
I don't even want to work in any physics related careers until i'm older, I'm going for Apache Pilot in the Army Air Corps soon
All work and no play etc etc.
>>69937493
Then you meant mean income not median. The fact that you earn six figures and mix up the two are concerning.
>>69937282
The hell does brokeing rail freight even mean? I thought that industry was regulated to hell and that price ceilings and floors abounded.
>>69937614
I was inorganic at Berkeley but quit my second year and got a MS. Now I'm in PhD in MSEN.
>>69930954
You don't have 300 million people, 50 million of which are unwashed, diseased, ignorant masses from Mexico plus 17 million negroes
>>69936527
>three years learning excel
>doesn't know how basic formulas work
don't breed
>>69935437
>denmark
small population
>norway
small population and oil money
>UK
we're not 'socialist', we never have been. every time labour comes to power they break the economy.
>>69937739
See, goes to show life is easy.
>>69936941
Some interesting occupations on that list, but at #3...
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-suicidal-occupations-2011-10#3-dentists-are-167-times-more-likely-to-commit-suicide-17
>>69932296
LOL you basically went into debt suck Jew cock
>>69932720
I'm a Geology major at Texas A&M...
Am I screwed?
>>69937990
Dat petro bucks
>he'll be fine
I'm taking Politics and International Relations. What job prospects and salary can I expect? I could get lucky like my old Sixth Form director: got a politics degree, gets £55k a year by age 30.
>>69937892
>don't breed
Joke's on you, I've never even had a gf.
;_;
>>69931921
Trades people, especially those who are self employed, can earn more than doctors around here so long as they have a strong business acumen. Most are borderline retarded though so they work for someone else and make them the lion's share of the money.
>>69937990
lots of petro people lost their jobs because of Saudi's flooding the market with oil. It'll end though.
it's grueling work (20 hr shifts) but you get paid well
>>69937599
>java in bioinformatics
Disgusting.
>>69937990
In Doherty right now.
>>69937990
>
senpai, you'll be fine.
if u dont major in geology, who will tell me what kind of rocks exist?!?!?
>>69929991
I fell for the STEM meme and now I'm making 74k/yr + I'm not paying for my student loans and I'm 23.
>>69937468
I hear that paramedics mostly spend their time trying to extend the lifespan of niggers. If that's true, you're a cuck and I would rather just be homeless.
>>69937282
I don't feel compelled to prove my income anonymously to a guy whose income keeps miraculously rising the more he posts. I make about 300k in a good year, 200k in a bad one. I'm also heavily invested.
I bet you drive a nice car. You're young, so maybe a 'Vette, maybe a Porsche, yes?
And you get plenty of pussy, yes? The girls can't resist the guy with the sharp car and the steady income.
Do a little drinking with your work buddies on the weekend? Got the giant TV in the living room for the afternoon games? Have the friends over, order 5 large pizzas and think nothing of it - hell, throw in 50 wings too. And extra blue cheese sauce please.
And I guess you think that's the good life.
Well, it is. But it's the same life everyone else lives. It's the apex of mediocrity.
Nothing wrong with it, really. Except when you start bragging about it. Because seriously, it isn't anything to brag about. I don't know anyone who makes less money than you. 100k/yr is the new 40k/yr.
Maybe someday you'll break away and start making some real money. Then you'll find out that you haven't really been making any choices at all - all your choices were made for you, and you didn't even know it.
Because until you've got a few million dollars in the bank, you're not shit in the USA - just another consumer.
>>69935968
I dropped out in 11th grade and make 25K annually. Although I work as a waiter/bartender but it's still more than enough.
The real meme degree is Business anything. I unfortunately realized this when it was far too late. Now I am contemplating lying on the train tracks
Guys I'm head chef at Wendy's making $9.50/hr. Been here for about 3 years. It's cool but getting a little tired of it. I'm good at HTML/CSS, how is the programming market?
>>69938218
I like rocks :)
>>69929991
45k as janitor kek
>>69938205
Mostly for biojava. Biopython and bioperl are used as well.
>>69937545
Warfare
>>69929991
Im going to trade school and got a good job while working that makes 17.32 an hour entry level. Im at school every morning and work full time after, 5 days a week.
I put in all this effort just to make this much, and now I'm being told the nosepicker cleaning toilets at the dollar tree will be making as much as me in a few years. Granted by then I'll be making a lot more, but I'll be doing so in a state with a lower cost of living and lower tax burden.
I grew up in California and always loved it here except for the disgusting politics. Now it's become too much.
Don't worry other states, wherever I end up I won't be voting for these asinine policies that got us here, I've seen the effects first hand.
>transfer out of high school
>go to votec trade school like mike rowe told me to
>become an electrician
>graduate and work as apprentice
>19 years old, no debt
>1 million dollars starting salary
Glad I didn't fall for the STEM meme
I dropped out of the womb at 0 and now I'm George Soros.
Are you guys even trying?
>>69932513
Most fortune 500 CEO's were STEM
>>69938307
>tfw still working on my first million
2 more years to go, life is suffering
>>69938307
>Well, it is. But it's the same life everyone else lives. It's the apex of mediocrity.
You seem to have an odd definition of mediocrity. The lifestyle is far above that of average, hell, the statistics prove it.
> 100k/yr is the new 40k/yr.
Except no statistics support this m8.
>I don't feel compelled to prove my income anonymously to a guy whose income keeps miraculously rising the more he posts. I make about 300k in a good year, 200k in a bad one. I'm also heavily invested.
Only said 2 numbers m8, the 85k offer out of college and the 115k I make now. Honestly you just sound like you're running away and trying to be dismissive because you CAN'T prove anything. It's a tad pathetic bud.
>>69930145
I finished uni with 0 debt and make 200k a year
>>69938482
You're pretty cool, huh
>fell for the "stem is a meme" meme
>lib arts degree
>no munnies
>>69936571
Go be a quant, you fucking idiot.
Do you have any idea how much those guys get paid?
>>69929991
>tfw almost fell for the STEM meme
wew lad
Got my EMS, make over 60k a year, and only have to work once every 4 days, retire after 30 years and get paid same amount as if I was working.
Suck it.
>>69937960
That's also a lie to keep people out of the profession. We have some of the highest job satisfaction rates and make hundred per hour and usually work 4 days a week and have an almost nonexistent loan default rate. It doesn't add up and there are reasons not to believe those stats.
>>69937427
>45k starting.
Are you an officer or some shit? I'm thinking of joining, but average entry pay for a rating is like 17 or 18K
>>69938877
>fell for the "STEM is a meme" meme
>didn't go to university
>didn't get a job
>Going hungry but at least I'm not a loser like those STEM idiots
>lifeisgood.jpg
I studied memeology in university.
Making a comfy $19 an hour and my job consists of making new interesting memes and spreading them on image boards and social networks.
>>69929991
STEM really is a meme.
Financebro here. Didn't get caught in the 100 hour a week work grind. Work in the corporate world as finance analyst. Not retarded so moved up a few levels quick. 65k 1 year out of uni. 40 hour work week. OT is time and a half.
get fukt
>>69930145
I dropped out of preschool and made 250k last month.
>>69937738
Most grad programs in the UK accept people from any degree discipline. Physics is basically top of the line - you can apply for pretty much everything.
who /Excel Jockey/ here
>>69930145
>>69929991
This, along with having my cock jew mutilated at birth will make me hate the kikes forever.
>>69931631
Very
>tfw 68k fresh out of school
Big 4 accounting firms are brutal, but we make bank
I'm 26 HKV
no degree
never had a steady job
what to do, inb4 anhero
>>69936226
Montana fag here... Good luck getting a job, and keep in mind we have a shoot-on-sight policy to deal with commiefornians
>>69938683
>It's a tad pathetic bud
Is it? I can never tell.
I guess if you're making 100k/yr in someplace like, I dunno, Bodunk, Wisconsin or something - maybe that is well above average.
But it's still mediocre. You're talking on a completely different scale than I am. I'm talking about intelligent white men here - you are one of those, right?
Yet you're content to work "a job." You could lose that job, you know. Could happen anytime - you might fuck up, though I kinda doubt it since it seems you're one to follow the herd. Your company might go belly-up. Someone in HR could take a disliking to you and sabotage your career. You are NOT in control.
I am. No one can fuck my shit up. I decide how much money I make.
Because I am a white American man living in a capitalist society, and I want control of everything.
So you can bother with statistics if you want. You can run the numbers and put yourself on some kind of platform. Maybe you're content to be a worker bee.
But I'm a killer bee, lad.
>>69929991
>didn't go study
>"work" 7 hours a day
>30k a year after taxes
>9weeks of vacation a year
I got 43k fresh out of school, after 6 months they promoted me to 53k with full benefits etc.
I probably work 8 hours a week no lie. My life is on easy mode right now, its a joke
>>69934851
My nigga.
Went to community college and completed the HVAC program.
No debt, make just under 80k a year, due for a raise in July.
I'm 26
It doesn't really matter what I study, in fact it doesn't matter if I do anything at all. Hurr you studied so now take 3000 a month instead of 2000.
It doesn't help at all. I often feel like quiting all of this shit though, commit suicide, as my life won't improve in the next 20 years at all. Just endless lonely suffering. I might as well be in hell, the only difference is that there I will be tortured in more ways than here.
>>69938929
I've been looking at this, the hours and stress are meant to be brutal. Might try be a patent attorney, competitive though
>>69938929
Sauce in that pic?
>>69938965
what is EMS
>>69929991
Do STEM jobs these days honestly only pay 15 bucks an hour?
Are you a code monkey?
>>69930323
I switched from chem to microbiology after I saw all the poo in the loos that are doing chem
Bio field is almost exclusively white with a few light skinned spics at Arizona State
>>69929991
>Fell for the STEM meme
Which STEM are you talking about?
>>69930323
>>69930676
>Graduating in a few years.
>Friend in police department wants me as a intern in the lab.
>Making $18 an hour.
$18 an hour on a FUCKING internship while having a somewhat interesting job. I love being a chem major.
>>69937170
get unpaid intership and get real experience. CS is an invaluable foundation, but it's tough to get a job with that degree without real world development experience.
Take on as many real projects you can get and time allows for
>>69939613
Anything banking-related is going to be brutal - 80+ hours per week etc. - but the idea is you get in, you earn a fortune in a fwe years and then you get out and go do something else.
>>69939682
my coop was 15 bucks. i graduate in 3 months and expect to get 60 - 70k starting. You just need to maintain a 3.0 gpa and go to a college that has coops so you have a decent resume.
