I have a master’s in engineering and have been a professional engineer for 32 years. I have earned a six figure income for over 25 years. I am happy with the career choice I made, and I regularly speak to groups of high school students about preparing to major in STEM curricula in college.
STEM careers overall are still high-paying and in demand. If you combine a STEM degree with excellent speaking and writing skills, the world can be your oyster.
Very well said!
My son is working on his EE right now. He has completed his sciences and math and is a year into his EE classes. He is doing very well (better than I did, lol).
Me? BSEE. Those 5 years were tough but, like you, I have benefited greatly.
The applied sciences offer very good career options. :)
As a 25 year PE I echo your observations.
I do not understand those who dismiss math as useless, wasteful and not needed.
Ignorance of math does not benefit anyone. If you must be ignorant of advanced mathematics, you should not brag about it.
Thank you for your post. I still haven’t given up hope until we have been completely invaded. And I hope Trump turns things around.
The one semester I taught AP calculus and trig (I couldn’t stomach the rest of the year, being surrounded by liberals was making me ill) I came up with a PowerPoint presentation try and courage the kids to study math related subjects. I had a random list of careers and their entry-level salary is. Then I organized it by highest to lowest. And then I marked those that had a math background. What do you know, they were all at the top! Then I added to each major the average number of job offers given to each graduate. You can guess the results. The research took me hours and hours and hours by the way. But I wanted it to be accurate and to have sources.
Pretty much common sense for those of us here, but these kids brainwashed by liberal teachers had no clue.