2014-01-18, 07:41 AM
hadriel Wrote:I put a quote from a renown person from my place, to put some facts into perspective:
"When you graduate with a science degree, what can you do? Wash test tubes." [read: Bachelors degree]
edit: Polantaris; I know the US perspective, because I've been following up fairly closely on jobs for my field around the world etc. (even though I don't need to because I'm a lucky guy). It is very much what you said in your previous post that makes me upset: because it's true, and amazingly not uncommon at all.
To go a step further, we need to ask what's the relevance of education (or its purpose) should be given the context of the above quote. It's not 100% true, but in STEM fields I'm afraid it is.
Hadriel
It's pretty similar regardless of the field. You just need to replace the "Wash test tubes," with "Generic irrelevant task that anyone that just came out of High School could do [for your field]."
It's pretty depressing when you consider how much money is wasted to...gain (almost) nothing.