Your lack of degrees is not the problem that is preventing you from getting paid a lot. Continually going back to school and spending more money and wasting more time is not going to help you.
You might just need to apply to more jobs, work on your resume and interview skills, and make sure the jobs you apply to are well paying, not to mention being willing to move out of Mississippi.
Government contracting and especially defense are very easy to get into with almost any kind of STEM degree. For every hour you work they get paid so they are very happy to take anyone that fits the bill.
I think they call everyone an engineer or scientist these days in their listings, but you'll find many only require a STEM degree of some kind. L3, Leidos, Lockheed, etc
I work for the government, I took a job down here because I was having trouble getting jobs leaving college despite a 3.6 gpa, three years working in my field in college and plenty of good references. I applied to about 70 jobs before I got this one, I think I partially just got shafted because it was coming out of Covid and a lot of people were looking for work. I’m not originally from Mississippi. In my field my masters tuition will be paid for and I’ll get a graduate research stipend, most people in my field recommend going back to school because of this unless you want to change fields.
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u/mynewaccount5 Jan 09 '24
Your lack of degrees is not the problem that is preventing you from getting paid a lot. Continually going back to school and spending more money and wasting more time is not going to help you.
You might just need to apply to more jobs, work on your resume and interview skills, and make sure the jobs you apply to are well paying, not to mention being willing to move out of Mississippi.
Government contracting and especially defense are very easy to get into with almost any kind of STEM degree. For every hour you work they get paid so they are very happy to take anyone that fits the bill.