Why are high-school students still enroling in the physical sciences?

<p>Top 75 according to USNWR, but school ranking doesn’t mean squat inindustry after you get work experience. I don’t even highlight much about my undergrad school anymore after all the work experience I’ve gotten. The best work I found after getting laid off-- temp and qc garbage. And PhDs have a hard time finding decent work these days that isn’t temp work also. You’d be surprised, the majority of scientists in the chemical and bilogical sciences in industry are BS/MS level, not phds. R and D is toast. The jobs aren’t coming back. In the 70s, 80s, and 90s BS/MS scientists could find decent work that pays a livable wage with benfits. No all that’s left are terrible temp jobs and mundane qc/analytical garbage. Even if you decide to go straight to grad school, you’ll be competing with 30 other phd applicants that have way more experience than you do for the position. At the rate I’m going, ill be lucky to be making $40k when I’m 40. If I would have known that, I wouldn’t have wasted my time on college getting a worthless science degree or wasted all that money on student loans and instead would have become an electrician making $70k after overtime and with no student loan debt. There’s nothing left for young scientists anymore just bottom of the barrell garbage. Not every person who goes into science wants a phd either.</p>