Posted on 06/28/2019 12:02:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Around where I live recruiters cannot find enough people with advanced degrees in bio sciences. A lot of them are getting starting base salaries of about $190,000. On the other hand, if you have a liberal arts degree you are in the same position as a high school graduate with no college degree.”
My daughter got her degree in biology...what is the difference between that and bio sciences...I always have my ear to the ground to give her ideas for high paying careers
bkmk
Your daughter should look for a job in San Diego, near UCSD. There a lot of companies developing new cures for cancer and other diseases.
I wish I could sell my degrees.
I’m retired and don’t need them on my resume.
Besides, anything I have learned hasn’t come from professors but from street-level experience plus lots and lots of reading.
A machine fundamentally powered by envy destroys like envy. Leftism is little more than organized envy. The left side of the bell curve mob uses it to rationalize armed robbery. "Nice place you got here. Be a shame if anything happened to it."
“They should be allowed to sue to get their money back.”
Yes, class action lawsuits against pubic school districts, the teachers’ unions and the DOEd.
I guess it depends. Our kid chose to go to a U of California college and major in Psychology (intensive program). Wasn't really sure what kind of career at the time. Took some sciences, Calculus, Statistics, etc. to fill in the electives.
Decided not to stay in college too long. Finished the BA degree in three years plus the following summer. Mom and Dad paid the freight. No college loans. Stayed at home a little over a year, working and saving money, then moved from California to Texas. Has been working for four years and is currently a shift manager making close to $100k with yearly bonus money. About to change positions within the company.
The degree program did round out the skill set. A lot of research and writing. Our kid is an organizing wizard. It was worth every penny we paid for that degree.
Because STEM jobs are being replaced by H1B visa holders. Everyone likes to mock the stereotypical Women’s Studies and other useless degrees, but the fact of the matter is ALL degrees are losing their value because ALL fields are being filled by cheap labor. This needs to be addressed, and quite frankly college IS too expensive. Otherwise Millennials and Generation Z will just vote in whoever promises to cancel their debt first, and you know the Democrats will come up with the most asinine way to do it.
Yes, class action lawsuits against pubic school districts, the teachers’ unions and the DOEd.
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That would cripple the big government liberals, which is what I want.
We’ve been subsidizing them for decades. They should be held financially accountable for their evil work.
I think that they should allow student debt to be discharged via bankruptcy. Then the university has to pay the money with clawbacks through their endowments.
Watch every Grievance Study department evaporate overnight if that happened.
Some cone head, somewhere, decided that students needed to be taught the Humanities in order to be “better” citizens. The VAST MAJORITY of students go to college to get a good job so they can earn enough to support themselves, not to study obscure arcana about foreign crap.
I noticed this trend years ago. It used to be that you started entry level and worked your way up. Then you had to have a degree just to get in the door! I suspect this had to do with employers being barred from testing prospective employees because it was considered “racist”. So, thanks to the Race Hustlers, thousands of American kids got screwed into paying big money just to work at Starbucks.
I think that they should allow student debt to be discharged via bankruptcy. Then the university has to pay the money with clawbacks through their endowments.
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Is that why discharge through bankruptcy isn’t allowed?
It was the 70s, and I don't regret my major choice, but even then, it was clear most college students had no business in college. I was able to work part time, parents helped, lived in a dump and worked full time over the summer. Didn't even buy a new pair of jeans during the whole four years. Graduated with no debt.
Back in ye olden days, college was where you went to make connections. A few places, like the Ivy Leagues, still are. I know of a gal that went to Harvard, dad had some connections already, she ends up getting summer jobs at law firms and making big bucks then graduates with a ton of prestigious names on her resume and makes big bucks. Texas A&M has an incredible network, and that's why you see Aggies still wearing their class rings thirty years later.
Got a nephew that was in the Corps of Cadets at A&M, graduated a 2nd Lt, and is getting ready to make Major, now.
He's also very smart and dedicated. That does NOT describe most college students.
Of the STEM degrees biology at the bachelor’s level is the least employable. Can she\you afford to have her go to graduate school?
Does she have a minor?
If you have a BS in biology you have to go to graduate school (including med, pharmacy & nursing school with that statement!) unless you want to teach K-12. It’s possible to get a job as a lab tech at a chemical plant, hospital, etc, hard but possible.
I know people who got a BS in Biology and:
1. Went into a graduate bioengineering program,
2. Went graduate school in chemical engineering,
3. Went graduate school in environmental engineering,
4. Went to graduate school in chemistry &/or biochemistry,
5. Went to graduate school bacteriology, virology (easiest transition), etc. Here I would imagine you need to set your sights on a PhD. (These are probably the biosciences the article is talking about!). There maybe jobs at the master’s level but I really don’t know.
6. Went to graduate school in geology.
7. Went to graduate school in physics - Biophysics
If you’re “crossing over” from an outside discipline don’t expect a stipend your first year (It may happen!) until you have proven yourself in your classes. Number 5 would be the exception. However you’d be surprised what you might get if you ask.
Items 1-4, 6 all you need to get is a master’s degree.
Be bold & believe in yourself. Above be prepared to work hard!
I see BS in Bio who go back for a nursing degree to become employed.
But, Dude! Math is like, hard!
/ liberal arts major
That’s works my daughter has a good friend that did that.
that is a lot of education dollars for just becomeing a nurse.
Nursing isnt that complicated it is just factory work.
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