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The STEM craze is overhyped, and it’s possible to get a job with most degrees
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Possibly excluding women’s studies and a few other niche majors, it’s certainly possible to have a job after graduation with a non-STEM degree.

The catch is you have to work harder to get internships/work experience, than people who chose ‘practical’ majors that lead directly to employment.

I know a couple of polisci majors from college who managed to break into politics, by having the good habits (i.e they were up at 7am every Saturday morning) and discipline necessary to get that work experience stay on top of their schoolwork.

If you are knee deep into party culture, or sleeping till 10:30am on weekends while doing a liberal arts or humanities degree, you’re setting yourself up for failure.

Tbh, regardless of what degree you choose, the job market is much more about who you know than what you know. There’s plenty of STEM majors who thought they didn’t need to get experience and their grades would be enough, since they chose a degree hailed ‘practical’, and now have no job due to lack of real world experience.

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As someone who has a master's research STEM degree and a sibling with a non-STEM degree and works in a STEM field, the difference is fucking vast.

I have no more student loans, by 2027 will be able to buy a house and before 2030 will have paid off my cheap $22k car. OTOH, my sibling needs at least a decade more to achieve all that. What that means, I will have a enough to actually retire by 2050, before I'm 60, while the same for my sibling (younger) will be around 65.

Yes, possible to get a non-STEM degree and still get a job in STEM or adjacent fields, the only difference being, you'll still be mostly lagging behind someone with a STEM degree.

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