<p>Here is the truth. If you graduate in the top 1/3 of your class with a STEM degree you are going to do just fine. If you take a job at one of the national labs you will be bounced from project to project as things come to an end or a new president shifts priorities. If you graduated at the bottom of your class certain employers are still going to drool over your degree and hire you to do other jobs that require a math brain. If you don’t love math and science then don’t bother! If you love it you know you have to do it so just go for it!</p>
<p>STEM > non-STEM
duh</p>
<p>how was this a news article?</p>
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Not everybody can handle the coursework. Look what happens after freshman year in every engineering program.</p>
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As I keep on pointing out on this forum, people largely choose their incomes. A competent plumber makes more than most of us on this site could even imagine.</p>
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It sounds like you had a bad experience personally, but now you’re incorrectly generalizing it to all of STEM.</p>
<p>Maybe Chem and Math were simply bad choices for you. Perhaps you need to step back, and ask yourself where your heart and your true strengths lie?</p>
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<p>This is not always true. Students who major in biology because they assume that it is a STEM major and that all STEM majors have good job and career prospects will likely be disappointed, unless they get into medical school or other professional school.</p>