Hi STEAM majors. What did you all major in and how much

>>8995494
>STEAM
Nice bait. Anyway
>Physics
>55k
Not even hit those sweet, sweet mid-career earnings yet.

>>8995495
what do you do for a living? do you have a bsc or an msc?

>>8995512
I'm an accountant. B.Sc, I tried for my M.Sc but failed, turns out Masters degrees are hard.

>Arts
>74k

You'll be safe for life living the dream I guarantee.

>>8995516
asking seriously (don't mean to be rude) - are you disappointed that you're not doing physics? or was this career change your choice?

What about SHTEM... with history?

>>8995541
Nah that's fine. Not really, I new going into physics that I probably wouldn't end up working in physics (although I did near end up there). What you have to understand that is that, you almost certainly aren't going to end up working in the area you did your degree in, not unless you're exceptional. For example go look at the growth rate for chemical engineers in the US, between 2014 and 2024 it's estimated that there will be less jobs created in those 10 years than graduate in a single year. That's true of most STEM subjects, it's not something people on /sci/ like to hear, but it's true. Most of us will probably end up code monkeying.

>>8995578
SSHTTEAAWM

sociology, science, history, technology, teaching, engineering, art, African American studies, Women's studies, and mathematics.

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>Computer Science
>$0

Fell for the JOB JOB JOB MONEY MONEY MONEY! meme, hated the culture in this field, quit. I saved enough money to go back to school for a good long while and I'm thinking about geology, since that's what I enjoy. What are the people and culture like in geology?

>Gender Studies
>$300 starting
>Any cardboard box I want

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>>8995693

>>8995586
Nah senpai, i'm by no means exceptional and i'm doing condensed matter in commercial research. You just have to sacrifice social life during uni, which few are willing to.

>>8995723
Maybe. I just figured with the dearth or jobs and glut of graduates, I wasn't going to end up in physics industry. What's your research looking at?

>>8995725
Superconductors. It depends on what you do though- condensed matter had a pretty big boom recently due to its overreach to material and nano, i was just lucky to pick this area. If i picked chemical engineering, maybe even grinding wouldn't save me from serving burgers at trusty ol donald.

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>>8995693

>>8995725
There are job openings in industry for Physics graduates.

>>8995744
>Superconductors
Whoa! In industry? Do tell more, please.

>>8997686
>There are job openings
No shit. The problem is there aren't that many and the opportunities after you start aren't that great. Say you do condensed matter like anon up thread, you'll probably start off as some low paid researcher whose only opportunity for advancement will come when the guy above you retires. That is unless you think there's lots of jobs in condensed matter research out there, where one can just up and leave for. Given the choice I would never work in the physics industry.

>>8997686
NDA. Lockheed.

>>8995628
Ba or bs in cs? Also what area of the us were you looking for a job

>>8995494
I know bait when I see it, and this is bait.

>>8995723
>>8997686
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/physicists-and-astronomers.htm
>Employment change between 2014-2024: 1,500
So bls estimates that there will be about 150 new jobs in physics, per year.
https://www.aps.org/programs/education/statistics/bachelors.cfm
There's around 8,000 graduates per year. By the pigeonhole principle, at least 53 of those graduates will share the same job. Or more likely, not work in physics industry.

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>mechanical engineering
>$80k
In my hometown in Kansas, too. Bretty nice.

>>8997796
Your graph shows bachelors. Do you seriously expect to work in physics with a bachelor?

>>8997823
Okay then. This says that there's about 1000 physics phds in the US:
https://www.aps.org/careers/statistics/upload/trends-phd0214.pdf
So 150 jobs, 1000 phds. 1000 > 150.

>>8997803
Noice, I just got my degree and there's plenty of jobs to apply to in OK.

>>8997710
>The problem is there aren't that many and the opportunities after you start aren't that great.
In Europe? There are many job openings for physicists as patent examiners and patent attorneys. Pay isn't too shabby.

>>8997981
>patent examiners
Oh god no. Talk about locking yourself into a job, what are you going to do if you get want to move on? Who's going to hire a 35 year old former patent clerk?
>Patent attorney
Slightly more respectable I guess.

>>8998042
People move between jobs like patent Examiners and patent attorneys.

If you start as a patent Examiner you can get promotions inside the patent office. It is also normal to transition to the profession and become a patent attorney. About 50 percent of patent attorneys take this route.

And 35 is still young around here. You have a minimum requirement of a masters degree and a preference for a PhD. About 30 percent of EPO Examiners have a PhD according to guesstimates. And 5 years post degree experience is strongly preferred.

Ageism is uncommon, many patent attorneys still work at age 70.

You can also transition between jobs as in-house patent attorney and patent attorney working in patent law firms.

>>8995494

I might be the only person who thinks STEAM is a great idea. For years now, (((they))) have been pushing for more cunts and niggers in science, driving down standards and excluding competent FUCKING WHITE MALES unfairly. Now that arts are included, the gender ratio in "STEAM" is actually in favor of cunts, while the mentally defective niggers can find a place that suits their limited prehuman cognitive abilities. While I'm quite certain they will continue to push for more cunts in serious subjects, the fact that the statistics are now against them will slow them down.

>sophomore
>undeclared

I can't pick one lads. I just can't.
t. engineering college student

>>8998100
>work at age 70

so this...is the power.....of STEM

>>8995628
What did you hate about the culture?

>>8995723
What about networking? Serious question, I'm getting conflicted messages here.

>>8995494
MechE BS
Currently $65k started at $55k 3 years ago.

>>8998184
It's the power of never saving for retirment like most boomers.

>>8998119
>the fact that the statistics are now against them will slow them down
thats very naive

>>feminist dance theory major
>>300k starting salary
>>any job I want

>Civil Engineering
>$60k

Just started. Pretty good salary for Arkansas since cost of living is so fucking low around here. Shame the internet sucks greasy ass unless you're in an expensive-ass apartment in the middle of downtown Little Rock or something

>>8998725
What college?

nuclear engineering
60k, finishing my first year of employment in a few months (and hoping for a raise considering how hard I work and how much easier my boss seems to have it since I started.
It's not a bad salary for a little place in Georgia (I save ~1400-1500 USD a month after all expenses, including car payment, food, utilities, 401k contribution, etc).
May be going back to school in the near future as well, though not entirely sure what I want to study between physics, nuclear engineering, or medical physics.

BSc Biochemistry
PhD inorganic / materials chemistry
30k / year

I'm a grad student. Recent grad from my lab started at $105k if we're talking real jobs.

>>8998734
U of A at Fayetteville.

I'm kind of jealous of newer kids getting into it now. The Uni is finally getting its own separate Civil Engineering building complete with strongfloor for large-scale concrete testing

>>8995578 >>8995592 >>8995494

SHIT = S (Social Studies) + H (Humanities) + IT (Information Technology)

>>8995494

MSci Geoscience

>No job yet, just graduated

I would like to go into the petroleum/gas industry. However atm this very difficult. Hence, I am looking into geotechincal engineering.

Btw. anyone got any experience/stories in these fields?

>>8995494
>computer science
>1 year left
>25$/hr internship

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>>8995494
>HS drop out
>became PC repair biz owner 2 times over
>93.6k/year was the max
>sold bizs
>became farmer
>make 5k usd/year or less
>can shitpost 90% of my waking hours now

Living the Dream

>>9000371
ohh shit m8, im about to graduate with Bachelors in geophysics in houston texas, got any advice for me m8?

should i just go for a masters asap or wait 2-3 years while working in industry?

>>8995494

>Industrial engineering + MBA
>age 32


~140k

>>9000721
seriously anon, what does an MBA do for you, does it really help you out that much?

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>>9000721
>tfw literally to inteligent 2 b rich

>>9000752
Well, IE is a really broad field (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_engineering#Overview), if you want to have high paying jobs ("climbing the ladder"), you should focus in management and costs, so a MBA doesn't hurt (Also it can help you make some connections). But you could still have my job with just an IE degree, probably.


>>9000767

Yeah, i have a Mech Eng degree also, but it's worthless, you get stuck and can't advance in a company. I kinda miss how chill the job was. Too many responsibilities now.

>>9000648
If you got the money for a masters, go for it! However, remember doing a masters is not easy!

I would like to stay in academia if I could, quite like the atmosphere. However, I need the money. Hence, I'm looking into getting into the industry asap.

Other than that I can't say much else. Since I'm just a fresh graduate.

>>9000807
Can't you just get a Master's in a field similar to MechEng like Petroleum Eng? MechEng is the most versatile eng degree, if you somehow hate your current job just find something that deals with the aspects of MechEng or just get a Master's in a field that builds upon MechEng.

>>9000400
You make $5000 a year? That's below poverty level.

>>9001383

I prefer working as an IE, i couldn't make this money ever with an ME degree. I only miss how easy working as an ME was, since i had way less responsibilities.

Also I'm trying to start my own business, a ME degree is useless for me.

>>8995494

CS + Math, 125k

>>8997803
Where in Kansas do you live

>>9000400
>make 5k usd/year or less
And you are still typing on the keyboard?
I am surprised with your life skills, anon.

Science
Technology
Engineering
Aviation
Mathematics

>>9002774
Wichita

>>9000752
Industrial Engineering is basically business engineering

>>9000721
Anon, if you are still here, I have a couple of questions.

First, how many years do you have to work before trying to apply to MBA? Some say 3 years, some say 6 years, I even saw that only 1 year. I would like to hear it from you as a primary source.

Secondly, I am an Electrical Engineering major. Will MBA do me any good if I eventually want to go into upper-class management to "climb the ladder"? And also, which is better for "climbing the ladder," a small company or even a start-up, or a large multinational corporation? Which would produce more benefits in the long term?

Thank you.

>>9001385
keep in mind he might have been able to retire on selling the business alone.

>>9003312

EE have almost none (if any at all) business formation. You will have to compete against Business majors. So a MBA would be almost worthless, since any decent company would pick a Business major + MBA than a EE + MBA. Almost all engineering degrees are oriented at technical stuff, only IE and System engineers can compete against Business majors. IE and Systems alone have more CEOs than the rest of the engineerings combined.

>>9003391
Judging by the stats, it is not as dark as you portray it.

Take a look at this, at least:

>By the numbers:
>14 Fortune 50 CEOs are Engineers (28%).
>7 of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies are run by Engineers.
>3 of the Engineers running Fortune 50 companies are former military officers; 2 are service academy graduates.
>3 Fortune 50 companies CEOs are Chemical Engineers.
>3 Fortune 50 companies CEOs are Mechanical Engineers.
>2 Fortune 50 companies CEOs are Electrical Engineers.
>2 Fortune 50 companies CEOs are Industrial Engineers.

>https://magazine.engineerjobs.com/2013/want-to-run-a-fortune-50-company-start-with-an-engineering-degree.htm

>>9003433

IE, Systems and Bussiness engineering almost didn't exist by those times tho, so it's not a surprise most of them were Mech-Chem-Electrical. I was talking about recent times (CEOs born after ~1980), where the most important thing in the modern market is specialization.

>>9003312
My uncle was an electrical engineer and got his MBA. He became the head of a production plant and gets sent to places like Germany and China. You'll do fine.

>>9003491
>became the head of a production plant and gets sent to places like Germany and China
Basically, my blueprint of a good life.

>>8998746
What is the job like for a nuclear engineer?

>>9002920
this does go well with the fact that most aeronautical engineers dont have a clue how planes fly

>>8995494
Physics. Went into programming for the money and nothing else. 125-150k a year.

>>9003815
Aerospace engineer, can confirm

Also, I'm pretty sure all the pipes and stuff I see in the wing are for making chemtrails

>>8995494
"major" is a bit of a misnomer in the UK, you do a degree in a single subject.

That said:
>Masters in EE
>Graduated in 2008
>£59k this year, salaried in an office job
>Ironically is less than my peak earnings in 2011, cos I was earning serious danger money in offshore trips
>chose steady wage and significantly increased likelihood of not dying over flying around in helicopters and wondering why dolphins splash about near oil rigs

>>9003681
I don't know, I actually work as a physicist now. I work at a medical device company that makes LDR brachytherapy sources.
I actually had my dream job offer from Lockheed to join their compact fusion R&D team, but they rescinded the offer before I graduated, citing "restructuring."

>>8997803
Pretty neat. I'm still an EE student but I'd like to work in or near my home town (Michigan) and live with my parents. They say they're totally cool with it as long as I pay for my own cellphone bill and car.

>Chemistry
>$50k
>guaranteed raises every year by about $10k for the next 4 years
>free grad school after that

t. military

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>Ph.D. in Art
>any canvas I want
>$300k starting

>>9004026
>oil rigs
Did you choose to leave, or has the market forced you out?

>Physics and Math
>$27k

RA position as an astrophysics grad student, more than enough to get by. Pretty much all I do is code all day though, might be able to get a comfy coding job after getting my PhD.

Genetics Msci (uk)
Finished this month so still looking for a job

>>9000371
geophysicist here, work in mining/oil exploration

started three years ago, have been making a decent living despite starting during a terrible downturn in all mining/oil

its not bad, lots of travel, quite a bit of time outside

currently in alaska for the summer working on a precious metal exploration project

>>9004353
How is salary?

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ART MAJOR
ANY JOB I WANT
300K STARTING

>>8995495
steam isn't a meme, it is pushed by diversity and womens studies departments to get the same funding for their shitty babysitting classes that stem classes do

>>9004353
>>9004353
Do you have a bachelors in geophysics or a masters?

>>8995494
Geology/geophysics double major here.

$11/hr as a cashier. I cannot believe I wasted 4 years studying rocks. Kill me.

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>>8995494

SHIEEET

S = Sociology
HI = History
E = English Major
EE = Elementary Education
T = Trade School

>>9005486
unfair to tradesmen

>>8997803
mountains and anime girls are illegal in kansas

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>>9005496 >>9005486
"T" should be Theology

SHEEEEEET

S = Sports
H = Humanities
E = English Majors
E = Ethnic Studies
EE = Environmental Engineering
EE = Elementary Education
T = Theology

>>9005522
>EE = Environmental Engineering
kek

>>8998814
If I do internships during my Bsc will I be able to make it into SpaceX or NASA with a Biochem degree? If I have to get my masters before, I don't know what I would get it in. Astrobio seems cool but it's a meme as far as I know.

>>9003433
How many of these engys only have a BS?

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>>9005522

SHEEEEEEEEEIT

S = Sports
HEE = Humanities Except Economics
EE = Environmental Engineering
E = English Majors
E = Ethnic Studies
EE = Elementary Education
E = Entertainment
I = Interior Design
T = Theology

>>8995494
Queer Studies, $-55,000 annually.

>>8995494
Did a major on Jazz Guitar, finished that and went back to college. Now Im doing a double major: Network Security and Pure Mathematics.

Working as a gov contractor: $90k

>Theoretical physics master
>Air Force
>1600(((€))) / month

>>9006722
>1600(((€))) / month
>19,200 €
Jesus dude, I've seen interns get paid more.

>>8995628
>tfw 2nd year of CS finished
>keep thinking about geo but scared of no jobs

will i end up in the same boat?

>>9006744
Such is the life in Southern Europe

>>9005463
Is job situation really that bad or why dont you find anything?

>>9005486

trade schools really aren't bad. would definitely have gone to one if i didn't have a full scholarship for an engineering degree

>>9007296
Same desu fampai

>PhD synthetic biology, MS computer science, BS molecular biology
>$60k/yr washing lab shit at a biotech firm (overqualified to get a CS job)

Literally contemplating suicide

>>9007749
>3 degrees
>none of them require math
You deserve your shitty job.

>1st year EE undergrad
>no job yet, but got through precalc with an A so ill probably do excellent as an engineer

>>9007767
>ee proud of getting through precalc
oh my sweet summer child

>>9004041
That's rough

Almost had those sweet government benefits

>>9007767
>none of them require math

Are you retarded? Biology and computer science require math

>>8995628
>is [x] viable
If you like it enough to put real effort in, you will excel and be fine. If you slack off and play 'vidya' every day, fuck you and enjoy nojobs

>>9007767
>1st year EE undergrad
>precalc
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

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>tfw i don't do any engineering at my engineering job

at least the money is good

>>9008354
That's what I am hoping for lmao. Buying a Starbucks in the morning, getting into my office, writing a couple of instruction and then getting my lazy ass back home.

(Actually no, I don't want this kind of life but it would be nice though.)

>>8998746
Plant hatch?

$65k as a Chemist here. I'm going back to school for a PhD in Bioinformatics though because being a chemist sucks fat dick in real life. If I can land a job at the CDC though I will literally never leave Atlanta. Really glad I chose biochemistry for my BS because otherwise I would've never gotten chemist positions as a pure bio grad. Those poor souls got fucked almost as bad as psych majors.

>>9005539
Astrobiology is cool, but there are like 5 total jobs for it so if you want one of them you better start working on getting rid of your gag reflex.

Chemistry, 41k, but I'm not employed in a chemistry related job.

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FINE ART MAJOR
ANY JOB YOU WANT
$3,000,000k% STARTING

>>8995494
Double Major in Statistics and Computational Mathematics
0k a year

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>>9008354
>tfw just spend my days slinging spreadsheets and writing reports
>if I want a more challenging job, I'd have to take a pay cut
Such is life in aerospace engineering

Environmental science with a minor in chemistry, and I make $0.

math major with cs, went into software dev/testing. Making ~40k/year. Just started though, so I'm expecting to get to ~70k with more experience.

>>8998119
well as long as it's labeled as STEAM, cunts can claim to be a part of it while not actually interfering with our superior STEM studies

>>9007767
7/10 bait

>>9008518
Damn I finished a 2 year in CS and make more than you.
You're getting underpaid

>>8995494
> BSc mathematics and physics
> PhD astrophysics
> Now, postdoc in math department
> $50k + great benifits

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>>9008501
>about to go into aerospace engineering

>>9008518
Should have gone to data analysis aka big data aka stats with blingz. Making 115k in Orlando. Started on 90k right out of school, this is my third year. Meanwhile roommate who went for PhD is still slaving to his prof and barely making a living. Not that pursuing research is worse, but we both went to applied math to make money.

>Chemistry/Biomedical Science
>$67k/year as a Technical Officer at the uni.

>>9009093
>while double checking how much I make I saw the academic pay rates
>mfw an associate professor makes >100k
Fuck me.

>>8998100

What country? I'm Dutch. Does this apply to all of Europe?

>>8998162
Materials Engineering

>fell for THE CLOUD meme
>making $100k+ after a couple years
>the learning never ends, always more CLOUD(tm)

help

>>9005463
>>9006943
I know probably over 100 recent geo grads and not counting international students with jobs lined up back home, I know two guys who got a good O&G job with a bachelor's and maybe a half-dozen who got good jobs with MS or PhD. Most of my friends are either doubling down on their mistake by fucking around in grad school, or doing unrelated jobs like me, or chilling at their parents' houses. This is in Houston so its all petroleum, the mining industry has no presence here. The only other things a geologist can do (and a few more of my friends went this way) are environmental or GIS, neither of which is particularly interesting or lucrative so I figure staying at a grocery store will give me more schedule flexibility for going back to school to get a real degree, electrical engineering.

Also any geology majors reading this, if you can't cut your losses, at least don't fall for the "your thesis doesn't have to be about petroleum geology, they're just looking for good problem solvers" meme. Heard that shit unironically from several professors, and even old oil guys who started their careers in better times.

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>>8995494
>not embracing STREAM
step aside nerds, the world belongs to well rounded individuals

>Chemical engineering
>Process engineer at a specialty chemicals plant
>$84k
So far so good, I only started full-time last month.

>>9008507
>Environmental science
Jesus, what a joke of a degree

>>9010052
Reading is not a major.

>>9010052
Anyone want to explain to me why adding shit to STEM is beneficial at all?

Doesn't it defeat the original purpose?

>BS in microbiology
>not enough experience and not educated enough to be a scientist
>make $16/hr as a lab tech
I should have just worked at McDonalds.

I dropped out after the first semester after I realized I could teach myself all the material in a fraction of the time while building a portfolio.
I make $80k as a programmer in a very low cost of living area in the midwest. Can get a small 2 bedroom apartment for $450 a month in my city.

>>9010529
it's to make genuine brainlets feel better about themselves, once they realize their art degree is worthless, and they're 50k in debt