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How's that STEM education working out?
Much of the public enthusiasm for STEM education rests on the assumption that these fields are rich in job opportunity. Some are, some aren’t. STEM is an expansive category, spanning many disciplines and occupations, from software engineers and data scientists to geologists, astronomers and physicists.
What recent studies have made increasingly apparent is that the greatest number of high-paying STEM jobs are in the “T” (specifically, computing).
Earlier this year, Glassdoor, a jobs listing website, ranked the median base salary of workers in their first five years of employment by undergraduate major. Computer science topped the list ($70,000), followed by electrical engineering ($68,438). Biochemistry ($46,406) and biotechnology ($48,442) were among the lowest paying majors in the study, which also confirmed that women are generally underrepresented in STEM majors.
So study cybersecurity, not slime molds.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 03 2017, @10:45PM
Submariners have to breathe recycled farts through the scrubbers, and as in a prison environment even as formerly straight men submit to gay sex.
As the old submariner joke goes, "10 submariners go down, 5 couples come up"
Now that's camaraderie.
As for carriers, comparing the environment of carriers compared to subs is like comparing apple orchards to baby's first preschool bulb grown. There are plenty of places to get lost in a carrier. Or any other Navy ship. Now on subs, you'd better wait until Thailand.