Alright Veeky Forumsentists. Today we're going to separate the money making Veeky Forums fields from the purely meme ones.
Fields that profit to go into: >Electrical Engineering >Applied Maths >Mechanical Engineering >Computer Science >Bioinformatics >Medicine/Pharmacy (if you can get in) >Pharmacology >Chemical Engineering
Meme bullshit where you won't ever make a dime: >Astrophysics >Chemistry >Physics >Civil Engineering >Biology
Anyone think of anything else, put it on the list.
Angel Sullivan
>Bioinformatics >Profit pick one
Lucas Sanders
>doing science purely for money
Andrew Gutierrez
>not wanting 300k starting
Jace Reyes
> mfw society picks sci subjects depending on how much crap they get instead of picking a interesting subject that you would love doing. Live well wagekeks
> tfw I can see the money spook now before any of you :)
> inb4 "omg money is everything, the world is driven by money and therefore as an autist I am (I got bullied at school, I was lazy but smart so I failed every class but math(also i read edgy manga and play vidya games, i dont need to read books))and now I can show the bullies that I am rich and I got high status; haHaa!"
Anthony Young
Applied maths and actuarial science are the only ones for making real money.
Jackson Thomas
Add environmental engineering to meme tier.
FML
Gabriel Foster
Autism u t i s m
Nathan Morales
>the world is driven by money It is, though. Research requires funding. And the person giving money is always higher in the hierarchy than the person who receives it. (unless the money is extracted by force, but I guess that's just the case of not having enough money to buy more violence).
Jordan Gutierrez
>not working purely for money Autism
Jacob Barnes
physics isn't necessarily bad, depending on your personality and whether or not you're willing to sell your soul to the devil. consulting firms and military tech will take you gladly if you didn't specialize in string theory or some shit like that during your PhD.
Caleb Ortiz
>military tech >selling your soul to the devil Hot ideology you got there
Connor Hughes
>I guess that's just the case of not having enough money to buy more violence Not to mention, if it happens too often, money becomes meaningless. Money is only money if its transfer is mostly consensual.
Brody Sanders
it's not just about making money, it's making sure you're actually going to work in the field you prepared for too.
Ethan Wilson
True in Rare cases, but that is not an excuse to choose another subject over another. Also, the world, people, may have money as a driving force, but it doesnt mean that you have to.
Easton Brooks
> murdering people > not a mortal sin
Jonathan Kelly
You are incorrect sir, I work in bioinformatics and have a respectable paycheck.
Henry Martin
>Veeky Forums - business and money
Carter Reyes
>making six figures >¥
Nathaniel Cruz
How much do you make per year, sir? If it's less than $100K, I recommend you leave this thread.
Joseph Hall
I studied Japanese for several years, even got an academic degree, but now I develop business software/websites.
Leo Walker
>>Computer Science
No.
Zachary Kelly
Is Civil really a meme degree?
James Rivera
>Going into final year of Animal Biology
I'm so fucked
Jayden Cooper
>Applied Maths What exactly makes the most money in applied maths? Is working in the oil and gas industry in Qatar a good idea?
Luis Sullivan
No, just overcrowded.
Brody Long
Applied math makes the most money because we can prove and we can program and we can easily assimilate the topics of other fields due to our solid abstract math foundation.
Bentley Davis
These threads are always depressing.
Well, fuck you too.
Wyatt Smith
>physics >astrophysics
except they can make a killing working in finance
Easton Torres
>Applied Maths and >Computer Science is Statistics. Bretty big now and growing fast.
Ayden Reyes
What about aerospace engineering? Although it is similar to mechanical to an extent.
Nicholas Bailey
>Civil Engineering >won't ever make a dime Is this actually true? I would imagine that they'd make about the same as the other engg majors.
EE master race btw.
Luke Wilson
I have to think of a 3rd year project for my Mech Eng degree. Any ideas here?
Nicholas Butler
>except they can make a killing working in finance
>studying physics >work in finance >not retarded
Xavier Morris
I fucking love science
Mason Rodriguez
wtf is this influx of oompa loompas of science? what are memegineers doing in a science board?
Logan Bennett
>Political science
>Go into finance because fuck it
>Earn dolla dolla bills
Jaxson Wilson
>civil engineering under non-profitables
Thought they were ranked #2 in salary along with job availability. What are you speaking of?
James Morris
Chemistry isn't a meme field, but it is a pretty generalized one. In fact, it's such a general science that it has a wide scope of applications, though the employers usually want a chemist that specializes on the particular subject they need him for.
Anthony Cox
>pharmacy
Not a ton of people know this, but pharmacy is fucked. In the past 15 years, we've built an extra 60% schools.
Itll be the new lawyers
Andrew Ramirez
>going to school for chemistry >want to extract dank nugs in Colorado for a living
420blazeit faggots
Samuel Campbell
>we've built an extra 60% schools. What do you mean by this?
Oliver Jackson
> Veeky Forums fields >Electrical Engineering >Mechanical Engineering >Medicine/Pharmacy (if you can get in) >Chemical Engineering
Gabriel Lopez
Going to university this october, doing a Chemistry masters, where are the best jobs, what should I specialise in? (I know I should go for what im good at, but I don't know what im good at so id rather try to be good at the best ones)
Gavin Baker
how fucked, exactly?
>was hoping to go to pharmacy school
Hudson Mitchell
Ive read a interesting research on MBAs. People who've chosen MBAs based on profit did not get as sucessful as the people who got MBA on things they liked. Cant link
Joshua Roberts
So does it cancel the effect if I choose the degree I like based on profit?
Isaac Stewart
Why do you fucks always call Physics "meme degree"
It's the most fundamental of all sciences. It's the least meme science degree there is.
Connor Edwards
>took a meme degree kek enjoy your epic meme
Blake Diaz
>don't have response >resort to meme >mission accomplished
Anthony Howard
>biomedical engineering
definitely a profit field if you manage to get employed
Zachary Morris
Not all value comes from how much you make. You can make a decent amount from the "meme bullshit" and actually make a contribution to human knowledge rather than just putting stuff together to make profit for some shareholders.
Sebastian Bennett
What do you guys think abt Mechatronics? Lots of my friends took it and seems pretty interesting
Lucas Walker
>actually make a contribution to human knowledge ...with projects that have no application beyond mental masturbation circle jerking. Nobody is saying that pursuit of knowledge is a bad thing, but relying on the charity of a grant committee isn't all that great.
Welcome to the real world, where the shit you do doesn't matter and we're all just doing what we're told.
Benjamin Gutierrez
currently engineering student working as pharmacy tech I haven't met many pharmacists happy with their choice of career and even fewer pharmacy interns that have realized they sunk far too much money and time into a) a career they seem to already hate but chose because of the money and b) an over saturated retail pharmacist market
Henry Taylor
Murdering and killing aren't the same thing
Brody Lewis
>chemistry There's no money at the BSc level. You will work as a lab slave unless for minimum wage unless you have a higher degree. That's just how it is.
If you have a higher degree, you better have studied you ass off finding the most relevant research projects or that is going to be useless too. Seriously, you should be obsessing over which lab you do your research in. There are plenty of very smart people doing PhDs who are getting experience that will never be more than stamp collecting. Their only route to money is professorship, so good luck with that. This is where all the complaining about chemistry comes from. There are still a couple fields that gets mad stacks, and professors are very VERY well paid at hardcore research unis too, but no one wants to do them/ aren't aware of them.
Even if you do go into organic chem which is by far the most over saturated field, and you do get a pharma job there, it's normal for people to be laid off by the thousands when they've been in the profession for too long. That keeps big pharma from paying their scientists too much and then the new batch of PhD grads comes in to take their place. Rinse and repeat.
So yeah, this is a pretty shitty field, but if you develop a refined understanding of it BEFORE you do a PhD you will probably be fine.
Adam Williams
>moral relativism
Lincoln Lewis
Why? We need a lot of people in ecology
James Morales
>it's impossible to enjoy a career in a field that also happens to be lucrative
Ethan Stewart
I'm currently working on a computer science BS degree and am considering adding a physics BS to my undergraduate work load. Would that be a waste of time in your opinions, or would the combination somehow change the meme-ness of physics alone? Would it be smarter to stick with CS for now and add physics to a masters or doctorate level work load later?
Also still don't really get why physics is meme tier if you have a realistic job expectation for after college
Jordan Brown
What areas are good in applied math? I'm a senior math major looking at doing a phd in applied math. Trying to figure out what the fuck to do in applied math.
Leo Jackson
8220467 You misunderstood. the point is that you should chose a job that you would love doing - even if it pays bad. if you get a lot of money and you love the job at the same time - great . But one cannot simply love a job because of the money itself, an abstract idea(meme), you will only "love" the benefits(benefits that only "rich" people can afford) from money; which you will soon realise is a meme too
Carter Young
Only if you're a meme field faggot.
Being /MechEng/, I feel pretty good about constantly being patted on the back about my chosen field.
Hunter Scott
>mechie >proud about getting asspats from high school guidance counselors who have a degree in child counseling
Are you enjoying your summer after your first year of undergraduate "engineering" studies friend?
Joseph Carter
Well if those fields make profit, then using your sound business acumen, you'll just reinvest those profits back into R&D thus making them more profitable. This has the added benefit of freeing other sources up for research that has no immediate application.
Everyone is happy.
Sebastian Williams
Nigga I'm strictly talking about these threads.
[spoiler]Also yes, I am.[/spoiler
Angel Walker
Why don't all of you, autist Veeky Forumsfags, realize once and for all, that every university degree is more or less a meme. A degree guarantees you NOTHING. It's skills and actually WORKING YOUR ASS OFF that could make you successful and rich. Being an oblivious conformist would only make you unfulfilled and miserable. Stop posting such hollow threads. They are as useless as your dumb opinion, nobody gives a shit about.
Brody Wilson
Well, yeh and neh.
A degree, as in - the sheet of paper that says you've finished uni, in itself might be worthless. But finishing an MSc. or PhD. usually goes hand-in-hand with working with some top-notch researchers around the globe, you forge connections and networks, advertise yourself to the scientific community, ..
If you're a shitty student, have no drive, then of course nothing of these will happen and you go back to your mothers basement, not finding a job for years to come.
If you have that drive though, you're in for an international career in science that is usually well-paid. Not great money, but surely enough to live comfortably.
Jose Perry
Take your major-wanking elsewhere. This shit isn't science at all. Sageru.