Is there anyone on this board who's actually NOT doing STEM?

Int'l Studies

i never actually applied for jobs because i felt too socially awkward after the first interview went badly. sometimes i wake up in cold sweat at like 4am and it plays back in my mind like some recurring nightmare.

holy shit. get your shit together user, it's not too late but at some point it will be. dont be cucked by some stupid interview.

Really, in my university there were four mandatory law courses (public, private, commercial and financial markets law) and only three math courses (overview of calculus, statistics and mathematical finance) for the bachelor degree. What I really hate about laws is the fact that you study everything and the next year you might have to relearn various concepts because a politician decided to apply a different policy. I remember that for a course the professor said “Guys, don't buy the version of the book older than two years. That isn't a law book, it's a history book”. And the same professor strongly advised to pass the exam in the same year because in the next one various norms had to change so you had to start from the scratch.
I really respect lawyers for this.

>you study everything and the next year you might have to relearn various concepts because a politician decided to apply a different policy.
law sounds like the absolute worst thing to study as far as how uninteresting it sounds. I cant imagine why anyone would want to study that shit, idc how much money you make.

Because the real world isn't a fairy tale where everything always works out in the end. The user you're arguing with is right. Find something that is useful and pay the bills and learn to love it, not the other way around.

>throwing your life away
kys

I'm . I don't know what happened in you interview so my advice might appear superficial, however you shouldn't be so obsessed by your failures. There are some jobs where your first interview might decide if you can get in the sector or not, but I don't think that your case is like that.
Also, your failure may be an opportunity for growth. Why did the interview go bad? You can't handle stress? You can't talk well with other people?
Try to think about your problems and fix them.
I had a similar experience where I was given a prestigious scholarship by two important politicians (one of them had a position equivalent to the Speaker of the House of Commons) and my speech was stopped two times with laughs because I spoke quickly the first time and I mentioned “arbitrage” the second time (I read about the “Ignorant audience law” only later). I wanted to bury myself in the nearest hole in that day. However, I also discovered that I had to fix my autism and I had to improve my public speaking skills (to say the truth, speaking skills in general. Years of social isolation for studying really destroyed my social skills. Sometimes I stop speaking because I can't think about the next words).
It's unfortunate that you spent a lot of years doing nothing, but if you continue like this things won't change for the better.

>Having a practical plan to gain useful skills for employment is "throwing your life away"
user. You know "300k starting with math degree" is a meme right.

I actually love my subject of choice, but it took me a couple of years of intensive studying to get to this point. Definitely don't feel like my life is being wasted. You must be either