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I noticed all of your examples are science majors. I wonder if the same anecdotes exist for lawyers, doctors, and MBAs?

• nostrademons 17y ago
  For undergrads, certainly - I chose anecdotes from science majors because the story is about science majors. My liberal arts major friends are significantly worse off - many are unemployed or bouncing from temp job to temp job. People with professional degrees are an odd case, because they often end up with so much debt that they have to go into their chosen field. I know a couple law grads that really would rather be doing something more rewarding than corporate law, but can't because they're $200K in debt and that's the only thing that pays well enough to pay it off. 'Course, they can make boatloads of money and pay it off in 3-4 years, but then they get the Stockholm Syndrome effect and can't imagine not being a lawyer, after all they've put into it.