It’s not just education, but a specific type of education. The final path to a good career is pretty winding and complicated.
As someone who had to figure it out on their own, and is now a bit older, I can say I knew basically nothing when I started choosing my career path.
I used to think that the best route was the trade schools, because you can make a lot of money fast. But then I saw a lot of my friend’s salaries peak at ~$70000, and every year their jobs got harder and harder as they got older.
Then I used to think the most successful would be my friends in the hard sciences, like physics or chemistry, because they usually were extremely intelligent. But then after their PHDs, many just seemed lost and didn’t really know what kind of jobs to go to.
Of my cohort, it seems like the only successful people were:
1. The biology people who became doctors
2. The liberal arts people who became lawyers
3. Certain engineers (not civil)
4. Techies
That’s it. The 4 good career paths available to most of my high school/college cohort.
Everything else didn’t seem to matter. The business majors, and psych majors, and sociology majors who didn’t have parents to give them cushy jobs got stuck in entry-level hell.
As someone who had to figure it out on their own, and is now a bit older, I can say I knew basically nothing when I started choosing my career path.
I used to think that the best route was the trade schools, because you can make a lot of money fast. But then I saw a lot of my friend’s salaries peak at ~$70000, and every year their jobs got harder and harder as they got older.
Then I used to think the most successful would be my friends in the hard sciences, like physics or chemistry, because they usually were extremely intelligent. But then after their PHDs, many just seemed lost and didn’t really know what kind of jobs to go to.
Of my cohort, it seems like the only successful people were:
1. The biology people who became doctors 2. The liberal arts people who became lawyers 3. Certain engineers (not civil) 4. Techies
That’s it. The 4 good career paths available to most of my high school/college cohort.
Everything else didn’t seem to matter. The business majors, and psych majors, and sociology majors who didn’t have parents to give them cushy jobs got stuck in entry-level hell.