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As someone in STEM who has only just realised I do not want to be an engineer, just thought I'd echo a few posts made on this sub and give my 2cents.
Just like not everyone can do engineering, not everyone can learn programming to a very high efficiency. The next hurdle to overcome with learning programming is the need for project experience. Unless you're able to assemble a team, you'll be doing every project/game/app by yourself.
The market is completely shit for engineers. There's a demand for engineers (who have a shit tonne of experience btw) for a mediocre pay.
When comparing the pay of engineers in the UK to that of engineers in the states, it's laughable how undervalued we are. However, we do receive 4+ weeks in holidays...
You are correct that the idea that STEM is the key to financial security is an outdated myth.
I know many engineering graduates who are currently just at home/doing side jobs DESPITE doing quite well-ish at Uni.
You need a very good motivating factor to learn programming to a professional level.
Personally, that'll be my distaste towards engineering.
Programming/Engineering has good future perspective if you have extensive RARE experience that the average graduate won't have.
I'm witnessing foids immediately after graduating have no issues getting Jobs and I can bet absolutely ANYTHING that if you were to compare my CV when I graduate to a foids' CV at graduation: even the hole isn't pretentious enough to think she's a better job candidate than I am (assuming we both perform similarly in the interview).
DESPITE this foids in STEM are like soygasms for companies. If you are a FOID and are struggling to get into a STEm field you're a failure. The entire world is literally ramming "more wOmEn iN sTeM" down my throat.
Yes and no.VindalooCell said:You can learn programming to a very high proficiency and get certificates online these days.
Just like not everyone can do engineering, not everyone can learn programming to a very high efficiency. The next hurdle to overcome with learning programming is the need for project experience. Unless you're able to assemble a team, you'll be doing every project/game/app by yourself.
I agree with this if you're in Europe.Gymcelled said:STEM is becoming a meme fast though. The fields are extremely competitive and in the first world there are tons of 3rd world immigrants who come to stemmaxx.
Engineers here barely make more starting than janitors and high school teachers. Obviously the gap widens over time as salary growth in the STEM field is better than that of meme jobs but still.
The idea that STEM is the key to becoming rich or upper class is outdated boomer nonsense in most of the first world. Some americans can easily make 6 figures from STEM but that's more like the exception than the rule.
Every single engineer i know is currently living with their parents or moved in with friends and they split the bills
The market is completely shit for engineers. There's a demand for engineers (who have a shit tonne of experience btw) for a mediocre pay.
When comparing the pay of engineers in the UK to that of engineers in the states, it's laughable how undervalued we are. However, we do receive 4+ weeks in holidays...
You are correct that the idea that STEM is the key to financial security is an outdated myth.
I know many engineering graduates who are currently just at home/doing side jobs DESPITE doing quite well-ish at Uni.
Agreed.Lebensmüder said:And the self-taught skills are also almost impossible to get for an average person due to a) a lack of motivation/discipline unless you are directly forced to do it by an outside force like an exam that kicks the self-preservation instincts into overdrive and b) because the available programms either deal with basic shit that everyone already knows who watched a Youtube Tutorial or so incredibly difficult that you have to have a background in that field in order to understand it, there is no real possibility for someone to improve because everything is concipated for total beginners/geniuses with years of experience with no room in between. Unless someone is truly a genius unlike every other it's (nearly) impossible to really learn something like programming on a professional basis all by yourself. Always these autodidacts who declare that the exception is the nonorm.
You need a very good motivating factor to learn programming to a professional level.
Personally, that'll be my distaste towards engineering.
I agree with the Biology/Chemistry side of your argument, not the programming/engineering (well not entirely).Lebensmüder said:nd also most STEM-fields (like Biology/Chemistry) don't offer a good job opportunities either in our current time, only programming/engineering really has a future perspective and this isn't something that you can really learn, but only understand.
Programming/Engineering has good future perspective if you have extensive RARE experience that the average graduate won't have.
This was the nail in the coffin for me.dogcel256 said:Foids are also getting priority for the top paying jobs/internships.
I'm witnessing foids immediately after graduating have no issues getting Jobs and I can bet absolutely ANYTHING that if you were to compare my CV when I graduate to a foids' CV at graduation: even the hole isn't pretentious enough to think she's a better job candidate than I am (assuming we both perform similarly in the interview).
DESPITE this foids in STEM are like soygasms for companies. If you are a FOID and are struggling to get into a STEm field you're a failure. The entire world is literally ramming "more wOmEn iN sTeM" down my throat.