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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) by DannyB on Friday November 03 2017, @09:03PM
You're right that the monoculture does work strongly in my favor. White Christian male. But I would like to think that even if it didn't, I would get along with everyone around me. But I've never had to test that. So while I'm usually comfortably pessimistic and cynical, in this case maybe I've allowed myself to become naively optimistic.
Thank goodness the 1st amendment forces people to listen to you and agree with you.