>>13010122Incorrect, and that's the worst part.
75% of people entering the workforce today will get stuck in a job completely unrelated to their degree field.
When I was in school, MBAs (I was not an MBA, of course) were graduating into $80k/year jobs. These days the market is saturated. A couple years ago, STEM was the new big thing; these days, the STEM market is getting saturated.
Time was, just having a high-school diploma was enough to get you a decent job. The problem is, once EVERYONE has those qualifications, their worth drops to nothing, since a degree is only useful as a qualification IN CONTRAST to others.
If you're getting a STEM degree, it may have been the best decision when you started, but you'll graduate to find that all the jobs are in IT. Or Medicine. Or whatever the fuck else.
EVERYONE can't be a doctor or a lawyer or a rocket scientist or an ad exec. Just because you have the intellectual capacity to do the work doesn't mean the work is valuable to the economy. There's a good chance you'll wind up folding shirts or waiting tables. Problem is, those jobs aren't worth enough to the economy to pay for the investment costs of training a STEM expert.
