Why Aren’t Black Students Picking Majors That Lead to High-Paying Jobs?
- Thread starter Doobie Doo
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You want people to make jobs for something useless
Most jobs in America are either highly inefficient or useless
calixprynce
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which is why i chose engineering, i can't sit down and right a paper but i know i can sit down and solve equations
what type of engineering?
Most jobs in America are either highly inefficient or useless
Due to bureaucracy not them actually being useless.You can't major in art and get these "highly inefficient" and "useless" jobs
*bang bang*
They lied to the general public about that. America just manages these foreign technologies and does whatever to underpay or outsource the help.
ZEB WALTON
ayo! - BEZ
my comapny small. besides the heads of the company, 4 white, 2 black, 1 dominican, one asian engineers, My first company had black spanish white and asian equally as well
calixprynce
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Is engineering tough? What you gotta be good at?
Math and physics mostly.
And depending on the field, you may have to know some programming
MalikReloaded
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Don't know his GPA. Georgetown University. Did private wealth management for an internship, then got a FT offer from Citigroup for IB.
PartyHeart
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Because white people are earning most of their degrees in STEM? They need to stop it. Its not about any "picking" that Black people are doing.
jwonder
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You just have to get a major that is wanted. I'm telling you it's hard for blacks. I see payroll. Something that 99% people don't see. Even black Directors at companies making a whopping 75k to 150k LESS THAN their white counterparts. Even in lower positions you will see a 20k to 40k bump in salary for whites vs blacks in all industries. I'm glad I don't see payroll anymore, it would make you straight mad than a bytch.
Whites can major in bullshyt and get top paying jobs. This white dude at my job now is completely useless and is an idiot has a degree in Agricultural working in finance making 130k. Stays fukking up and they still keep them.
Whites can major in bullshyt and get top paying jobs. This white dude at my job now is completely useless and is an idiot has a degree in Agricultural working in finance making 130k. Stays fukking up and they still keep them.
BooksnCookies
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Honesty time.
I was a STEM major (graduated in December) and tbh, unless you majored in Engineering, hell even a specific type of engineering, you are NOT going to be making 60K+ straight away. I majored in MCDB (molecular, cellular, and developmental biology) with a minor in physics. At most, even with my experience, I stand to make around 30-35K as a lab tech (stepping stone for me to pay off loans before grad school. smh). If you have less experience, you'll mak around 25-30K. The salary doesn't even really get any better because most Masters programs don't pay you and your stipend for a PhD program will prob only be around 30K. Those of us in STEM that are non-engineering majors pretty much have to keep going to school just to distinguish ourselves from other STEM folks. How the hell do you live comfortably on 25K esp when you hit your late twenties?
Don't even get me started on Academia vs. Industry. I love research but you mean to tell me that as a Senior Microbiologist I'd have a better chance making 100K+ working for the NIH and only 60K for a University. Now, if I were to get a Masters with a certain level of experience, I could make around 75K. How does that work?
STEM is such a double edged field. Most us will probably be giving half of our salaries back due to loans.
You really have to be in it because you love it.
Tbh, I find that a lot of Black students get discouraged from pursuing this field. Note, a lot of us just might not be interested in STEM which is TOTALLY fine. Lots of successful Black folk in business, the arts, english, social studies, etc. We need to stop short changing those fields. A lot of us do get turned away. My sophomore year, I wanted to declare and this dumb white hoe told me I wasn't a "top student" with a 3.6 even though I def qualified for the Honors Program. She really fukked up my confidence and I almost switched to something easier because of it. My friend had a counselor take the pen out of her hand while signing and told her to pick something else. A lot of non-Blacks don't want us in these harder fields and will do some slimy shyt to prevent it from happening.
I was a STEM major (graduated in December) and tbh, unless you majored in Engineering, hell even a specific type of engineering, you are NOT going to be making 60K+ straight away. I majored in MCDB (molecular, cellular, and developmental biology) with a minor in physics. At most, even with my experience, I stand to make around 30-35K as a lab tech (stepping stone for me to pay off loans before grad school. smh). If you have less experience, you'll mak around 25-30K. The salary doesn't even really get any better because most Masters programs don't pay you and your stipend for a PhD program will prob only be around 30K. Those of us in STEM that are non-engineering majors pretty much have to keep going to school just to distinguish ourselves from other STEM folks. How the hell do you live comfortably on 25K esp when you hit your late twenties?
Don't even get me started on Academia vs. Industry. I love research but you mean to tell me that as a Senior Microbiologist I'd have a better chance making 100K+ working for the NIH and only 60K for a University. Now, if I were to get a Masters with a certain level of experience, I could make around 75K. How does that work?
STEM is such a double edged field. Most us will probably be giving half of our salaries back due to loans.
You really have to be in it because you love it.
Tbh, I find that a lot of Black students get discouraged from pursuing this field. Note, a lot of us just might not be interested in STEM which is TOTALLY fine. Lots of successful Black folk in business, the arts, english, social studies, etc. We need to stop short changing those fields. A lot of us do get turned away. My sophomore year, I wanted to declare and this dumb white hoe told me I wasn't a "top student" with a 3.6 even though I def qualified for the Honors Program. She really fukked up my confidence and I almost switched to something easier because of it. My friend had a counselor take the pen out of her hand while signing and told her to pick something else. A lot of non-Blacks don't want us in these harder fields and will do some slimy shyt to prevent it from happening.
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. Stem makes the world work 
S/O to my coli engineers/computer scientists/physical scientists. Much love to yall
. Stem makes the world work S/O to my coli engineers/computer scientists/physical scientists. Much love to yall
jimihendrixheadband
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Fukk that at one point I made 20k in a month off of trapping. Its going to take alot more than to get cats in the hood interested in stem