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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not everyone is motivated by money and greed.

This is a really bizarre question to me. A lot of people just want to enjoy their day-to-day life rather than build up a Scrooge McDuck pile of coins to swim in?[/quote]

Haha, yeah I grew up not worried about money and followed a career I was passionate about. Huge regrets because in this day and age, a modest income consigns you to long commutes, substandard housing, and crummy schools. It’s great if you never plan to marry and have kids; maybe even okay if you marry someone with similar values, but find a DW who is content to live a simple life and doesn’t want kids, that’s a pretty narrow field. And I wanted kids, I just had no idea how expensive they were and neighborhoods with good schools are.

And you can say “move to X” where X is some random place not in a major city, well a) my passion career has no jobs there, I guess I could become a teacher eventually but likely will still be poor there 2) most cheap places, if you want good schools, housing has still gotten really really expensive over the last 10 years, even more so COVID era [/quote]

So I don’t want to not validate what you’re saying, because it’s true, but for most careers, stem or not, this is going to be your reality. Yes the average salary for stem majors is significantly higher than non-stem majors but it’s still only what, 85K? And that includes engineering majors that all pull in 100K average and let’s face it, we can’t all be engineering majors. (And if we did the salary of engineers would decrease significantly).

Over time yes you’re looking at substantially more money, but in most areas with great schools, you need a heck of a lot more than 85K a year to live there.

The fact is that all the problems you mention are major societal issues. Nobody should have to send their kids to a crappy school. Nobody should have to forgo parenthood because kids are too expensive. We have a massive GDP and the fact that our country hasn’t been able to solve this issues is absurd.

Of course this isn’t helpful to your situation and that sucks. [/quote]

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