ITT: Things people say about your job/major that makes you want to scream

>What level? Elementary, Secondary?

They never specify. It is just a general claim about teaching.

This is the attitude that I hate. When people just jump to conclusions. People who think they are so clever that just by reading your major they can just know everything about you.

>you're probably not going to spend the rest of your lives doing exactly what you trained/wanted to do.

This line implies that you know that I supposedly studied math so that I could become a research mathematician.

Sure, this would be correct for like 1% of us but I honestly could not give two shits. Even before signing up for university I already had my goals in software and my specific goal was something related with computational mathematics.

Majoring in mathematics was killing two birds with one stone.
First I learned all about the most interesting shit you could think of so this was pretty much a rollercoaster ride for me.
Second, I learned all the typical pure and applied math someone working in the field of computational mathematics would need to know.

Sure, Algebra, Analysis and Topology are all amazing subjects but I do not really care about doing research in those fields. I was never that type of guy.

So in conclusion, stop jumping to conclusions.

Please don't tell me you mix colors.

>Please don't tell me you mix colors.
lol, not sure what you are getting at but you need paintings to be chemically stable in order for them to last. Pollock and Rothko were assholes, btw. Their work is decades old and falling apart already.

I am experimenting with ceramic based "painting" that could potentially last tens of thousands of years without deteriorating or fading.

Predictably you're a elitist dick.

that's ....
pretty cool user

I'm playing a time game, pending that humanity survives into the future. It's easy to write history about things if your work is the only kind that survives.

For example, we can only make vague guesses at Etruscan Architecture. They made everything out of wood and it's all gone and rotten. We know a lot more about Greek and Roman because they used wood in addition to marble and concrete.

paleo
>is this a dinosaur egg?
no ma'am, it's an iron concretion
>you didn't even look at it!
trust me, I don't have to

hell, geoscience in general
>is this a meteorite?
no, it's probably a chunk of slag
>you didn't even look at it!
look m8, it is NEVER actually a meteorite
>here, look at it anyway!
...it's exactly what I said it was

that is indeed pretty cool
are you talking about paint infused with ceramic particles? or is it more complicated...?

Food science
>so is that like cooking
>are gmos bad
>isnt diet soda worse than regular soda
>i dont trust the FDA
>i only buy organic
>is fish oil good for you
>should i,be taking vitamins

I am neither a nutritionist, nor chef

as an example, here's something that my advisor actually had to deal with a few days ago
>timesrecordnews.com/news/local/man-claims-to-have-found-bigfoot-skull-344d87ee-9377-04e6-e053-0100007f306a-381665331.html

people just can't be happy they found a cool rock. they always gotta say it's some kind of crazy fossil when it's obviously not...

Food science
> I'm sorry, we have no jobs available for you
> Try McDonald's

>This is the attitude that I hate. When people just jump to conclusions. People who think they are so clever that just by reading your major they can just know everything about you.
Gee man, if you didn't want to get judged you should have gone to the mathematicians' safe space instead of Veeky Forums. No need to be salty.
>First I learned all about the most interesting shit you could think of so this was pretty much a rollercoaster ride for me.
Good for you, you sound like a typical community psychology major.
>Second, I learned all the typical pure and applied math someone working in the field of computational mathematics would need to know.
Cool story bro.
>Sure, Algebra, Analysis and Topology are all amazing subjects but I do not really care about doing research in those fields. I was never that type of guy.
Neat.
>So in conclusion, stop jumping to conclusions.
You know, I was mostly just saying welcome to the bleak depressing reality in front of you. Even if you dealt with a lot of computational mathematics the only thing that would change anything about my argument is that you may actually enjoy working in finance or education.

He sure is, or he has a disability, which is okay too.

...

>"There's haters out there, other Bigfoot enthusiasts that don't like that I found something first," May said.
keked

>are you talking about paint infused with ceramic particles? or is it more complicated...?
I can't call it "painting" technically because paint is "glue plus pigment" while ceramic is fused and chemically changed with heat.

It's becoming more complicated but in a good way. We're reaching a point where colors are becoming more sophisticated giving away to a more diverse palette that wasn't possible before.

In the neolithic era, about 4 pigments were possible but they lasted a very long time in the case of cave paintings. In the "Middle Ages" 5 to 7 pigments were possible. Today we have dozens and dozens of chemicals and processes that lead to hundreds of colors.

It's an indication of scientific progress and humanity's understanding of chemistry and the scientific progress. Paint makers are chemists and good artists are chemists and think like scientists.

Now take all of that and imagine the few remaining artifacts from our era are bronze sculptures, some concrete architecture, and my brilliantly hued still-life that includes a transparent blue dildo.

I will laugh in my unmarked grave.

>computer science
>i've put together a pc config in a webshop, would you look at it whether it's GOOD???

And I always do, b/c of fucking family and shit...

>Gee man, if you didn't want to get judged you should have gone to the mathematicians' safe space instead of Veeky Forums. No need to be salty.
This attitude that one is free to act like a blathering retard making unsubstantiated claims about some field and anyone who has a problem with it is a SJW who needs to run along to their safe space is fucking moronic.

I have held a moderate respect for art for some time now, despite not really thinking it worth my own time. However, when you intend to show future generations that our cultural elite were surrounded with
>brilliantly hued still-life that includes a transparent blue dildo
that brings me hope that the future of the arts is bright.

>Gee man, if you didn't want to get judged you should have gone to the mathematicians' safe space instead of Veeky Forums. No need to be salty.

This is pretty hilarious because of the pure irony. With your statement you are implying that I am not recognizing the nature of Veeky Forums but by saying such a thing you are showing that you do not understand the nature of these threads, that are pretty common anyways.

>Oh look at you, you are so weak complaining about something on a thread specifically made to complain about that something.

I never counted on you being too clever so I can't fault you for it.

To be completely honest man, you're the one blathering on about how much that I implied (when I didn't) that mathematicians have to work in education/research. I just was saying that if you don't want to deal with education or working in modeling/projections for the long run, you may not enjoy your career as much as you thought you would. If the prospect of working a job you don't love scares you, then welcome to real life, which is terrifying and involves nothing but bullshit all day.

I'm talented and extremely subversive.

Over half of Andy Warhol's work was about images of death like suicides, skulls, electric chairs and other morbid imagery. He would sell the rich and famous pictures of themselves, then turn around and sell them death. I'm meaner than he was.

>what kind of job can you get with that?
>I hate physics/I'm so bad at physics
>I hate math/I'm so bad at math
>My psychology degree gives me leverage to discuss how your experiments (i.e. CMS) are weird/wrong and the money should be used elsewhere
>you need to program for physics? I thought you guys just scribbled equations all day

I have respect for my colleagues in STEM and it pains me to see our work be put into question because people are stupid

>another 4 years
What are you memeing? After finishing a bachelor's it shouldn't take you more than a year to do another, maybe 2 for something like engineering heavy on sequenced major classes.

but user..that first one's a good question

> Geophysics
> "Don't you care that mining and oil exploration is killing the planet.

Yes, we need to improve (I would like to see more green energy myself) and we're getting better but seriously what do they expect us to do?

> "I guess you're right. As of today all mining and oil operations worldwide will cease. All the items of modern life; planes/iPhones/utensils/fridges.... They'll all be made from wool. Well you can't expect us to make them from wood! That'd mean cutting down all the trees!"

This career shitposting surrounding pure subjects is annoying, but that isn't what's bothering me here. Shitposting and then telling everyone who doesn't like your shitposting to go to their safe space is dumb. You're not offending everyone by sharing uncomfortable truths; you're just talking out of your ass.

So you work a shitty job and to cope with it you come to Veeky Forums to convince everyone else that their job is also shitty?

wew lad

Well, I wouldn't know because fuck am I not stupid enough to graduate university to just go right back in.

I just dislike the claim that math is not by itself enough of an education and that math only serves mainstream engineering.

The claim also implied (but the speaker probably did not notice this) that I was too stupid to get into engineering (if I wanted) right out of high school and that is just baffling.

>So you work a shitty job and to cope with it you come to Veeky Forums to convince everyone else that their job is also shitty?
You seem very angry that someone told you that you probably will never have your dream job. Are you still convinced you can be a fairy princess or are you just mad that you don't want to admit how much you hate where your professional life took you?
>I just dislike the claim that math is not by itself enough of an education and that math only serves mainstream engineering.
Anyone who says that negates the fact that pure physicists use math all the time.
...
Oh shit, physics is just the gateway to engineering.

>Oh, you want to be a math teacher?
No.

>What do you want to do then?
I don't know...

:c

enjoy spending your day inside staring at your simulation machines and poring over well logs and core samples, instead of getting some fresh air and collecting samples from outcrops and roadcuts and having some beer afterwards.
fag.

Mate, I'm grafting my way through uni scrubbing pots in a hot greasy kitchen to avoid this, or factory work as a fulltime career. Anything that lets me sit down now and then and doesn't pay basic minimum wage is bonus.

Literally nothing worse than family that expects you to fix ALL of their technology issues. It's as if people never heard of Google.

>However, when you intend to show future generations that our cultural elite were surrounded with. . .
Also, FYI, many artists today value craftsmanship and skill. The media only shows you the art school nut that shits out her period blood on a canvas, but artists don't work like that today.

It's a competition to be skillful and make work that's worth a damn.

biochem
>that sounds hard
>le breaking le bad meme
That's about it really. I think it's because it's somewhat of an "exotic" field that people aren't used to hearing about.

>Now take all of that and imagine the few remaining artifacts from our era are bronze sculptures, some concrete architecture, and my brilliantly hued still-life that includes a transparent blue dildo.
Excellent representative relics of the 21st century.

>Excellent representative relics of the 21st century.
it is. I'm trying to stay relevant to the times.

>wow, you must be really good at memorization!

>poker is for incredibly lazy people

also makes me cry desu

Yes, biochemistry is obviously all about memorizing metabolic pathways.

>"so what are you up to these days? what are you? a sophomore? a junior?"
>"Oh, ill be starting my PhD in chemistry in the Fall, im really--"
>"WOH, you must be really smart! you know, my son is in high school in chemistry honors and..."

Ever since i got accepted to this PhD program it seems like if someone has any tie to chemistry, they cant wait to try to measure their dick against mine. the other day...
>"oh chemistry? my niece is a pharmacist and she just got a job making $100/hour starting at [X grocery store in my area]!"

not only is that a the 7th or so time now that someone has done this to me, its a down right lie. that's well over $200k+/year. pharmacists in my state make less than half that on average.

anyway, in short it seems like everyone just wants to measure up to me for some reason. i dont even feel that smart, but everyone paints me that way and it feels like they want to knock me down a peg.

>never wrap their head around the concept of a pointer.

If you use an actual programming language like Java everything is a pointer by default so you really don't need to know shit about pointers like with other languages. If you think that students are having trouble with pointers you should get with the times and stop using whatever outdated shit you use, no wonder people mock you. I bet you use C, queer.

>mechanical engineering
"I didn't know you had to get a bachelors to work in an auto shop..."
"So you like cars?"
"That's driving trains, right?"

NO

NO NO NO

NO

STOP

I've literally just started telling people that I'm going to college to become a rocket scientist to avoid all this shit about cars and locomotives.

The confusion about locomotives isn't far fetched to be honest. Somebody has to take care of locomotives, it makes sense that you do it too.

MechE
> So you can fix blah blah
> Oh how do you get this tool to work
I've actually gotten good at it.

>c++ is outdated
How's freshman year user?

oh man. And when you do help them, anything they happen to fuck up afterwards ends up being your fault somehow.

If I start to mention googling something they get all defensive and think I'm being sarcastic?

>work in the chemical industry
>know a few chemical names off hand, which are super common chemical names if anything.
>OH WOW user YOU MUST BE A DOCTOR! DOES THIS ACTUALLY WORK?

For fuck's sake. I work in regulation and knowing names just comes along with the work. Why the fuck do people think that knowing IUPAC names and flash points of very common chemicals makes me a doctor.

Usually only when I'm getting a haircut

>What do you do?
>electrical engineering
>Oh like an electrician?
>...no

>work as a lab tech
>literally am a slave in a white coat
>every fucking person always comes up to me asking the dumbest shit:
>so user you're like a doctor my piss was like orange the other day and...
>user my poop was like straight black does that mean...
>user this mole, which I've had for 9 years, itched one time does that mean I have cancer
>lol dude western medicine is so stupid herbs and shit are the way to go

oh you're gonna love this one

>meeting girlfriend's friends husband
>talking about what he does
>"oh, im a mechanical engineer"
>science/technology boner starts tingling. cant wait to talk about shit with this guy
>"yeah, I work with another guy installing machinery in different factories. like, setting it up and stuff"

you're fucking kidding me.

>Oh, I'm a mathematician
>Yeah, I add up the price of people's orders at Mc Donald's

>"I didn't know you had to get a bachelors to work in an auto shop..."
Best one so far in this thread.

ITT:

>wahhh why wont people recognize my career and how superior it makes me over them ): ): ):

>This is the attitude that I hate. When people just jump to conclusions.
>Please don't tell me you mix colors.
Sure you're not jumping to any conclusions, you pompous dunce? Learn to make your statements at least internally consistent, faggot.

I worked with a food scientist; his research is in wine additives. Really fascinating stuff that's also useful for large-scale production. His bachelor's is Industrial Engineering. Gallo hired him for a shitload of money.

>"user you are a ME?"
>"do you like to take things apart?"
>people don't know materials science is mechanical engineering

>"user what does a biomedical engineer do?"
>"so you are going to med school?"
>"why didn't you go to med school or just get a job, instead of going to grad schoool"
>"user why are you in grad school but not getting your PhD?"
>"user when will you be done with school?"

It looks like i should be applying for a PhD. I don't know if i can get a job when i get my masters.

The biggest misconception is a academic librarian is just a guy who picks up peoples trash or looks at Facebook.

We are a critical member of the research team, do lots of data organization for scientists, we do a lot of training staff, find the tiniest most hard to get datas for people in every field to improve their work, also yes a bunch of customer service level stuff. There is a freshman new to JSTOR every year man.

No my job is not beneath me and yes it takes a masters degree to do.

desu I'd need some training to work as an electrician. I can read datasheets all day and draw you up a wiring diagram, but I couldn't actually do the wiring. Not safely anyway.

I'm an engineer, I always get
>Hey user, could you suck my cock?
I mean yes I have a track record and always end up doing it but seriously guys not all engineers are gay!

Was he from Cornell, davis or madison

I doubt it. I think he was from Oklahoma, but I don't know where he did his undergrad. Grad program at OkState.

oh shit breh geochemist here
What univ do you attend?

pic related...it's a bit of a meme school, but it's got a good geosci program due to all the oil emone
did my undergrad at UChicago though. my how the mighty have fallen.

how bout you?

if your degree says "engineer" after it, you should be fine.

in a couple years that wont be true for new graduates. even now some of them...

>not caring about memory management
O I am laffin' at your bloat

>c is c++

How's being ignorant?

physics
>why didn't you study engineering?

Because I want to watch my life slowly fall apart and my dreams run away from me after I finish undergrad.

>c++ doesn't use pointers
yes how is

Topkek

>get with the times and stop using [pointers]
I doubt you understand how computers work, let alone if what you wrote is O(n!) when it should have been O(1).

>c++ doesn't use pointers
>pic related

>academic librarian
what in the fuck is an academic librarian. please don't tell me they offer degrees in this. This shit sounds worse than getting a degree in Dance (it exists)

not him,

typically they get degrees in liberal arts. i know one that got his masters in music history or something

Chemist
>Do you make meth?
I'm pretty sure this beats everyone else's because I hear it every time I tell someone my job.

Biotechnology.
too fucking complicated for people to ask about so they just ask what it is about and after I explain they leave me alone...kinda funny cause its not that complicated...

if anything, I get snarky comments from physics and engeneering majors:

>oh you dont get physics so you go for the easy opstion?
>yeah pretty easy to remember a bunch of acids and shit, pfff...
>yeah keep medling with tiny cells while I make rockets, dummy...

I get no retarded questions or questions at all because even most STEM people don't have the slightest idea what ChemEs do.

You know what. I agree with that asshole. If you went into that field to help people you have no right to bitch when people want help. You money grubbing piece of shit. MAKE TIME!

No, you tell them that medical advice is not what you're trained to do, you're trained to cut people up and fix their shit while they're knocked out.

My university offers information science degrees and the graduates are actually extremely good at what they do. People here actually use the library resources.

Well roughly half the students in a typical undergraduate math class ARE preparing to study engineering or go into education so why is it people's fault when they make the assumption that you're there for the same reason as their cousin etc?

Don't blame normies for the fact that you study a meme degree.

People really tell you this or you just spergin out things that never happened?

/board

I haven't even finshed that some people already sickens me.

>You are laerning physics ?
>Why not chosing engineering

Every. Fucking. Time.

> EE/CE

What lightbulb is the best to use? What fuse should I put in my toaster?

I am not an electrician.

You don't intend to pursue graduate education?

You realize you can get scholarships if your GPA is good, right?

This made me rethink my EE major.

I was in it for the bulbs.

Yeah if I'm honest then training as an electrician has more practical benefit than EE wizardry.

>Can I drill into this wall or will i hit a wire user?

Math. I can remember some actual conversations.

>Why?
>Coolstorybro, I took AP Cal and made a 5
>*gag noise*
>I wish all I had to do was sit down and write proofs
>Well, someone has to do it

Biomedical engineer

>So, you will build cyborgs then?

Or even worse

>I thought engineer is the same thing as an architect, do you plan hospitals?

>durr doing the apocalypse/collapse we can hole ourselves up together
>you can get all the electricity and stuff runnin for us

i'm not an electrician you niggers
i have no idea how to do that

Well, I do not think that it would be difficult for an EE to educate himself on real circuitry and make connections to theory. It is not like an electrician is building his components himself aswell, so we are all equally fucked no matter what education if the supply chain is gone.

>>I wish all I had to do was sit down and write proofs
what's wrong with this?

Pretty sure Mr Arty mean't drugs, user

Also,

Nanotech here. Currently doing in situ TEM with a focus on catalysis.

>oh wow you are smart
>that is fascinating plz tell me more: eyes immediately glaze over even tho I am adept at explaining my job in pop-sci-eese
>grey goo
>nanobots, when?
>hey i saw this in a movie is this even possible?

and the worst:
>you guys are horrible you are messing with god's creations and you have no right. one of your atoms could get out of the lab and that would kill everybody..