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One other thought I have related to this that I'm putting in the comments since it doesn't really warrant another post
On cs career questions and similar spaces I see a lot of "the job market is saturated because of dumb normies who were brainwashed by tiktok 'day in the life of a software engineer' videos, they deserve to be unemployed for chasing trends
" which I fucking hate because prior to the tech job crash last year, the rhetoric for the preceeding 15ish years was "you're dumb if you try to pursue anything other than software engineering, every college major that isn't CS is a useless underwater basket weaving degree that won't get you any jobs"
how are they not connecting the current over-saturated market to the "code or starve" rhetoric of the 10s (which tbh was materially true to an extent), and instead try to make some "dumb sheeple normies" argument, I hate (almost) everyone in tech fuck em
Another contradiction in my capitalism? Starting to think that employment shouldn’t be market-based!
Well, if you’re looking for a relatively stable career that pays well, then STEM is basically the only accessible option as it requires almost nothing if you’re exceptional, and relatively cheap for the average person.
Other careers like medical and law require huge up front investments, i.e. tuition, and many years of schooling. MBAs are the butt of the joke in the “technical” degree side of college, but if you’re good enough at talking you’ll land a decent job. Almost everything else, whether they’re inherently more useful than STEM, will get you either nothing for years or the salary is barely tolerable.