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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very few kids live in the DCUM bubble and can afford to major in something frivolous knowing that their school’s prestige and parental connections will ensure they do well anyway. Most kids are forced to be practical.[/quote]
Yet many study the sciences...Not to be anti-intellectual, but many scientific pursuits are purely meaningless, require a PhD, and pay $30k-40k[/quote]
So friggin true it hurts. Studying physics was great but possibly one of the most useless things I have done in my life. It is mostly a field that generates no profit and has been consistently a mess for the pass 50 years with little progress to the fundamental questions still lurking. Overall, I would not recommend a science degree over a mathematics or engineering pursuit.[/quote]

Physics majors who actually do the work and understand it get immediate starting salaries of pushing $100K at investment banks, hedge funds, and consulting companies.[/quote]

Pretty sure PP meant getting a job in actual physics...like working as a nuclear physicist at a power company (in theory, a growth area these days with the amount of energy required by AI)

Also, the physics majors recruited to investment banks come from only like 30 schools.  You can be a straight A physics major at the University of Wyoming and will have almost zero chance of working for any of the firms you mentioned.

However, when people mention physics or philosophy or economics they miss the much bigger picture.  It's more the folks you read about borrowing $40k to attend their regional college and majoring in something like early childhood musical therapy and then struggling through life (actual person just profiled) unable to ever get 
a job in the field or making just minimum wage...liberal arts degrees that honestly just shouldn't exist or at least should  be funded by an employer where a decent job awaits for you on completion.

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My sibling got a physics degree from Cal and couldn't find a job. So they went back to school to get an masters in engineering, then got a job.[/quote]

A friend of mine had a top PhD from MIT in astrophysics. She had to get a job turning tricks outside a Trader Joe's. Her clients were accountants,  hedge fund workers, actuaries and other assorted money goblins.[/quote]

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