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) by meustrus on Sunday November 05 2017, @01:26AM
There’s a kind of understanding that only ground level employees in any role understand. It’s not how the business runs itself; that much is true. It’s sknething much more important: the business’s relationship with its customers.
Even programmers understand this better than upper management. Fundamentally, if your customer took their business elsewhere, the programmer knows why, the call center person knows why, the retail clerk knows why...and the CEO is clueless.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?