Anonymous
06/11/2025 18:05
Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:Helpers are the happiest and therefore most successful imo.
Another positive for the helper professions is you have a lot of flexibility in where you live. Makes it easier to pick up and move to a different area. My job opportunities are really tied to expensive urban areas and I'm a bit envious of my nurse sister who has spent time in a variety of locations and settled in a more affordable midsize city with a very nice quality of life
Anonymous
06/11/2025 17:12
Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Helpers are the happiest and therefore most successful imo.
Anonymous
06/10/2025 19:46
Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Education. There’s teacher shortages so it’s fairly easy to get a job, but it might not be in a good district.
My DS graduated with a degree in Math and Secondary Ed and received a job offer within a week of his very first interview. He wanted to work in a private high school and was offered a much higher salary than he was expecting - he accepted the job.
Yep. Math teachers are in high demand. Too bad we have a hard time convincing young people who are good at math to become teachers.
That would be my DS. Superstar in math, dual CS math major, but they do not want to teach. I don't blame them. Who wants to deal with out of control teens. If the kids were well behaved, wanted to learn, and the parents weren't helicopters, maybe DS would be more likely to want to teach. But, today, teachers have to deal with too much: out of control teens, and parents, and admins.
And I'm not even a teacher but I shudder when I think about teaching.
American education would improve overnight if parents could accept that their special little star isn't perfect and is often an issue for other students and their education. We desperately need to bring back standards and FAILURE. Most A+ students are not actually at mastery level across subjects, but the standards have fallen to hell.
Honey
They need to be paid more than they are now. I've got talented math kids and there is no way I would be promoted education. My mom was a nurse and I lump all these "helper" professions together.
Everyone loves them. They get cookies and a paid for lunch when its their "week" but in no way are these professions valued, the workload is well beyond what they are paid. And I suspect that the only reason that people haven't entirely deserted these professions is because you've got those with a soft heart who want to "help" people.
Of course society takes advantage of them.
This is such a patronizing post.
I’m a teacher and my DD is in college to become one. I’m thrilled she decided on a career that helps people instead of selecting one that simply helps herself.
I’m thrilled teachers and other “helpers” you look down on have guaranteed employment. In a world of AI and shrinking opportunities, your “helpers” will be okay.
Anonymous
06/10/2025 19:32
Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The term liberal arts includes majors in humanities fields as well as chem bio math physics.
And people with only undergrad degrees in those chem bio physics majors have a hard time finding a higher paying jobs.
My cousin was a physics major at Cal. Couldn't find a good paying job with just an undergrad, so they had to get a graduate degree in engineering.
I know several who did that. Back in the late Neolithic era, UVa used to offer a BS Physics to MSEE conversion degree. It usually took 24 months - both summers. First summer was EE499, which was undergrad EE core classes as a single intense course. The 2nd summer most worked on their research - which they usually wrote up during the last 2 semesters.
Anonymous
06/10/2025 13:43
Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:The term liberal arts includes majors in humanities fields as well as chem bio math physics.
And people with only undergrad degrees in those chem bio physics majors have a hard time finding a higher paying jobs.
My cousin was a physics major at Cal. Couldn't find a good paying job with just an undergrad, so they had to get a graduate degree in engineering.
Anonymous
06/10/2025 13:41
Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Education. There’s teacher shortages so it’s fairly easy to get a job, but it might not be in a good district.
My DS graduated with a degree in Math and Secondary Ed and received a job offer within a week of his very first interview. He wanted to work in a private high school and was offered a much higher salary than he was expecting - he accepted the job.
Yep. Math teachers are in high demand. Too bad we have a hard time convincing young people who are good at math to become teachers.
That would be my DS. Superstar in math, dual CS math major, but they do not want to teach. I don't blame them. Who wants to deal with out of control teens. If the kids were well behaved, wanted to learn, and the parents weren't helicopters, maybe DS would be more likely to want to teach. But, today, teachers have to deal with too much: out of control teens, and parents, and admins.
And I'm not even a teacher but I shudder when I think about teaching.
American education would improve overnight if parents could accept that their special little star isn't perfect and is often an issue for other students and their education. We desperately need to bring back standards and FAILURE. Most A+ students are not actually at mastery level across subjects, but the standards have fallen to hell.
Honey
They need to be paid more than they are now. I've got talented math kids and there is no way I would be promoted education. My mom was a nurse and I lump all these "helper" professions together.
Everyone loves them. They get cookies and a paid for lunch when its their "week" but in no way are these professions valued, the workload is well beyond what they are paid. And I suspect that the only reason that people haven't entirely deserted these professions is because you've got those with a soft heart who want to "help" people.
Of course society takes advantage of them.