“Stand alone” undergrad majors beside CS and Engineering

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Anonymous wrote:Lol, I had an engineering technology degree and lived alone on $23k. Weird post.

? In a hcol in the 2000s? Did you live in a hovel?

This must have been in a low COL area back in the 1980s. I made 22k in 1995 in a big city with three roommates and was scraping buy. Or you had other sources income.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lol, I had an engineering technology degree and lived alone on $23k. Weird post.

That's minimum wage that doesn't require a college degree

So? I had one, and lived alone in an apartment. $910 a month.

In 2000s or in 1984? Where did you get your degree? You made $23K with a degree in engineering? yikes.

I'm 53. Graduated in '92 from a no name state u. Lived alone in CA in a studio making $26K with a BBA degree. Wow, the ROI on your degree was awful. Shame on your school.

I talked about majoring in engineering in 1983, and my family thought that was more impractical than majoring in sociology. The papers were full of articles about engineer layoffs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Physics majors. It’s like engineering and CS on steroids. Extremely employable because involves a lot of higher order math. All physics majors can do engineering and CS, but the opposite is not true. However, physics is a difficult major and not for everyone. A lot of the underpinnings of AI math comes from theoretical physics.

You are attaching a Physics degree to engineering and CS.

A Physics major on it's own? Not many prospects unless you want to teach in high school.

Most Physics majors I know are doing well and some don't have graduate degrees. A lot went on to self teach themselves and land IT/CS jobs. Plus nowadays most know MATLAB and Python by the time they graduate.