• spudwart@spudwart.com
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    1 year ago

    The irony is now that the situation is totally inverted.

    My STEM degree has got me making a barely livable wage while the GEDs who went straight into a trade are making twice what I make.

    And the cruel reality is there is not a good way to determine which way this market will go unless you’re one of the 0.01%. And if you were it would make this a mute point.

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      1 year ago

      The meme should go “he’s probably in a union and has job security, health serurity and a living wage”. Fuck that guy. That’s what he gets for being an honest taxpayer.

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      What STEM path is barely getting by? Programmers and engineers are highly sought after employees rn.

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        I’m a Medical Laboratory Scientist (bachelor’s degree, nationally certified, and current on my certificate maintenance continuing education requirements) and it has taken 16 years for me to crack 100k/year. I started at 38k. There are not enough MLS out there to staff all the labs in the US. Labs are scrambling to figure out how to continue providing patient care in the face of crippling staffing shortages and yet pay is still shit.

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        Well I my skill set is in programming, however to date since my graduation, I’ve only managed to get into an adjacent job which was IT.

        I’m gonna try and bring my skillset up ther by focusing on network administration, since for me it would appear that my programming skill isn’t really worth that much.

        IMO the hard truth is that the niche skills sell, not degrees.

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        Was told this nonstop through college, took me a year to find a job paying me way less than most people’s engineering starting wage

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          Are you in a city with limited STEM opportunities? That has a lot to do with it. I was having an impossible time getting a programming job in my hometown, because they are a behind the times, po-dunk city. I had to move across the country to an area with a thriving tech industry to finally get my career going. It’s unfortunate, but where you live heavily impacts the job opportunities.

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            Nah I’m literally in Denver lmao, things are looking better now but every single entry level position must be flooded with applicants or something. So much ghosting

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            Nah I’m literally in Denver lmao, things are looking better now but every single entry level position must be flooded with applicants or something. So much ghosting