STEM or a trade. You need to make yourself useful to the point that they have to pay you even though you're ugly. That means either a marketable trade - plumber, bricklayer, etc. though unions make that sketchy and I guess can make it hard to get into - or an actually marketable STEM specialty. If you're attractive you can get away with being a "social media manager" for a startup, or some HR drone, and produce basically nothing. But, if you're an ugly male, you have to be able to actually produce valuable work. I make good money because I specialized in a marketable but not popular STEM field (we're producing something that can be sold for real money, but it's not hip startup bullshit trying to make the next Instagram that's going to have lots of posers vying for the jobs and the company folds in 6 months). My company basically can not fire me - I test this often by refusing to do their stupid online training videos and other shit HR wants us to waste our time with. If they could, I'd have been fired years ago, but they absolutely need me and the handful of other (ugly, dorky, short, and disproportionately ethnic) men who work on my team.
