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Can't do trades. My back and shoulders are fucked from having worked in the trades. My friends in tech say it is completely jeeted and that they haven't found work in almost two years.

>>1649
i cant help you anon but i was wondering the same thing. i thought civil engineering would be nice since things will always have to be built and maintained, but once it all gets outsourced if that happens im not sure my body would be able to handle construction

Unpopular opinion:every job is potentially on the chopping block due to outsourcing, automation, or a combination of both. No job is safe. Everyone should unionize.
Life is short and wage labor under capitalism is a fuck.
Do whatever you want.

>>1649
It's all messed up. Having a degree doesn't guarantee anything, even in STEM. It's all a gamble really.

>>1649
just get into a trade
>>1651
>all jobs are equally as bad
lol sure, is that why unionization rates are inversely related to average wage in like 99% of cases

>>1653
>just get into a trade
read it again

>>1649
If by "viable" you mean able to find a job: health care, but it pays like shit and you often have to deal with gross or shocking things and employers really want phlebotomy or CPR certifications which cost extra time and money and no one wants to train to hire. If by "viable" you mean being paid enough to not be in debt 10+ years after graduating probably none at this point as a degree by itself is worthless without connections; even with a masters in genetics I've spent almost 6 months looking for a job because they also want experience (which I don't have cause I was focusing on school + a job not related to my field to pay the bills). I've heard from relatives that teaching is pretty brutal and surprisingly hard to get hired, to the point where you might have to move to a shitty area and teach at a ghetto school to gain experience. My non-stem guess would be something like accounting.

>>1650
>civil engineering
I've heard that shit is maddening because you don't really get to decide anything important; just making sure the council's retarded plans for a 6 way intersection instead of a roundabout so they can funnel money into they're nephew's shell construction company are code compliant.

>>1651
can't unionize if you're part of the reserve army of labor

>>1649
Try social work type jobs, that sector is only gonna get bigger and bigger

Pretty much just being a medic or a chemist.

>>1723
>teaching is pretty brutal and surprisingly hard to get hired
in the US ? where I live we unironically don't have enough teachers that passed the tests since COVID so they had to hire people that were enthusiastic enough lol
>you might have to move to a shitty area and teach at a ghetto school to gain experience
that is obligatory,you become a teacher,they decide where you work for the first 20 years,and it will be in the places nobody sane wants to go obviously

>>1649
I’m in the same boat and I think the general strategy is suicide. Maybe living with my parents forever, which is basically the same thing.

>>1734
It's hard to kill something that's never lived

>>1735
How are we both Maria Gloria

im halfway into electrical engineering, i was between this and civil engineering, hope i made the right choice.

Now that I think about it and have some sense of sudden clarity, my parents have been doing really well as psych majors by offering therapy, the key is that they offer it at a lower than average rate and thus are overworked, but it seems to me that health care in general has been going up, and psychology might be the easiest "medical" field to get into. Its more or less accepted now that LLMs are poor replacement for conventional therapy


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