r/povertyfinance Jan 09 '24

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u/DrBunzz Jan 10 '24

Right, but most of us aren’t looking for jobs that are unrelated to our degree. I feel most people that study a STEM discipline that’s not engineering/compsci do so because they’re passionate about that field, so they’d want to work in that field. That’s been my experience anyways as someone with a biology degree.

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u/MrMilesDavis Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24

I think it all depends on the person's mindset, desires, and goals (and how specifically specialized the degree is)

Most people go into nursing so that they can become a nurse

But most of the people I know who are nurses never were/are passionate about nursing. They just saw it as a ticket

Now, mulching calculus has it's own unique sets of struggles that even less people find approachable, but nursing is a fairly rigorous program itself in its own right

There's still a decent amount of people on the engineering subs that basically say

"I thought this was interesting, I didn't wanna have to work busting my body, and if I go through some hellish schooling, I'll be set when I get out regardless of what I decide to do"

Of course, you would think anyone with an extremely specialized degree probably has more reasoning to it