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I doubt that things will end well for people who choose STEM for the money, rather than for the love of it. Me, I love doing engineering, and would do it even i

I doubt that things will end well for people who choose STEM for the money, rather than for the love of it. Me, I love doing engineering, and would do it even if it was a low pay major. It paying well is just a nice bonus. I've known too many engineers who did just enough to get buy. They're always the first to get laid off, outsourced, etc.

bernardino 8y ago
I think it's okay for people to go into certain fields primarily for money. I also think they will end up as well as everyone else. I have friends who majored in a field they were eager about but ended up realizing there was no high demand in that field. Some went on to do technological (data science, web development, etc) bootcamps and most of them like what they are doing now. Most of them, on their free time, even still partake in that thing they majored in.
ur-whale 8y ago
Although I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment (having had to work with those "I'm just here doing my job and making a living" type of engineers all of my career), I think your conclusion is incorrect. There's a ton of work to be done in STEM fields, much of it fairly inglorious and grungy and therefore a good fit for that type of folks. And I don't see this diminishing, quite the contrary: the complexity of the technical infrastructure of our modern societies grows exponentially over time.