/sci/ - Science & Math

Joke's on you, I'm already unemployed.

>>6671099
>I just learned the word "exponentially" and I don't know what it means yet I use it

You will make it. I do believe in you.

>>6671099
I'm happy with my life.
How about you, OP? Hope the job will bring you money and happiness.

>>6671099
>Thank god I'm in Banking, none of what I do can be replaced. It's all negotiating, deals, social skills, complex strategy, and big players in the game. None of which can be replaced.

So what then, you get a big house or a mansion, get a trophy wife and maybe a kid you'll not spend time with, only friends you have are co workers and people who want to go to your fancy parties and are after your money and after all that die with no contributions?

Sounds great.
Money sure buys happiness.

>>6671117

I am currently studying math and finance and i hope that i can work for a few years in the banking area. Just once to try it. Not really interested in banking for the rest of my life. just saying that it may be a nice experience to work in an environment like that.

I'm not OP btw.

>>6671099
>Yeah?
>Well at least I won't be unoriginal.

>>6671117
and YOU think you can contribute something that will make you worth at all? Most academics live miserable lives with the only consolation that they will make it. Of that small bunch, an even smaller bunch does something worthwhile.
Do you really wanna sacrifice your youth and life for something that you wont achieve? please

Someone needed to feel good about their major.
So many things wrong with this post, but I'll start with needing to go to an ivy league. Hard as fuck to get into, costs a shit ton of money, and their education programs suck unless you're a liberal arts or medical major (with the exception of MIT). If you want a social experience, they're also generally the worst schools for that. Complete waste of effort, money, and time to go to an ivy league. And for what, a name that you can put on your resume? Protip, the college you went to doesn't mean shit after your first job. Go to a school that's highly rated in the area you want to study, get good grades, and you'll be just as marketable as some preppy prick with a harvard degree.

>>6671134
>this is what non-ivy league college kids think
if you havent gotten ur phd before 20, you wont be able to make it

>>6671133
Physicists are some of the happiest, most passionate people I've met. You sound like a bitter douche, I guess finance will suit you well.

>>6671133
I'm not sacrificing my youth, I'm enjoying my time.

>>6671136
Who cares about PhDs? Only people who want a boring desk job.
Congrats.

>Thank god I'm in Banking, none of what I do can be replaced

A leech shouldn't be replaced, it should be removed

>>6671145
>/sci/ - Unabombers and shitposters

>>6671141
>being a research professor or scientist is "a boring desk job"

Think I might be done with /sci/ for the day

>>6671104
Your autism is showing again.

>>6671117
Do you honestly believe you're above your hedonistic ape-like desires? Do you honestly believe you don't desire resources, money, houses, golf trips to Argentina, sex, or jet-skis? Because deep down you know the truth. Regardless of your philosophy you're as ape-like as nearly every human that walks on this earth. This frustrates you, but it's true.

Short-term happiness does not contribute to long-term happiness. But short-term happiness does seem to fill the void for awhile. Yet when did philosophy make anybody happy? Socrates was rumored to be a miserable human being.

I contribute to charities, political organizations, and help as many people out as I can. I feel like I've accomplished more in my lifetime and done more for humanity than a Physicist?

How often do Physicists help the poor? How often do Physicists actually make a difference in somebody life? The truth is, for most Physicists they'll never contribute to any cause.

>>6671136
This is what people who have studied in and worked for the ivy league system think.
>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere

>>6671148
You can be a scientist or a research without a PhD

can I get some proof of any kind before I invest more of my time in this thread?

>>6671151
yes u can be a research. Just letem put them drugs on you goy.

>>6671149
>you like this, that and everything I want. It is true and you are frustrated about it.
Stopped reading.
Put some effort into it

>>6671153
he is just shitposting brah.
just b urself

>>6671149
There's more to life than happiness

>The truth is, for most Physicists they'll never contribute to any cause

Except advancing the human race

>>6671099
Have fun paying my welfare check every month.

>>6671158
>human race
Don't you mean species?

>>6671145
lol are you going to be doing the removing virgin?

>muh happening
>muh delusional fantasies of overthrowing le system XD

/pol/tards are basically just revleft in the end

>>6671099
>I'm so fucking content with my life I have to convince people of other walks of life that my choices are better than theirs

>>6671167
Why the fuck would you assume that a leftist would have come from /pol/?

>>6671149
>Socrates was rumored to be a miserable human being.
Catherine the Great was romoured to have fucked a horse.
A rumour is not a valid argument in /sci/.

>>6671165
gtfo semantics.

>>6671131
damn dude. tellin it how it is.

Why do you care what other people do with their lives? If you really were secure you wouldn't even go out of your way to make this thread.

>>6671099
>Have fun being outsourced Engineering fags. Statistics, Engineers, and IT nerds can all easily be replaced.
Hah

>>6671174
>I cannot into reading comprehension

>>6671149
I derive immediate short-term happiness from completing a mathematical problem or learning something or making a discovery. Most people who are here do as well. There's no reason for me to put effort into an area I have no interest in because it might earn me more money or might get me more respect in my community, because there are jobs readily available in something I AM interested, that pay well enough to live comfortably. The only reason I don't sit alone at home and study all day as a ``job'' is because I need to eat and drink, and live somewhere, if all those were guaranteed and I didn't get a cent more, I would do it gladly.

>>6671190
>man posts leftist opinion
>associates him with /pol/, a right-wing board

>>6671208
>right wing board
/pol/ is open for everybody, leftists just get REKT there so they don't visit as often

>>6671211

No, /pol/ was created as a containment board for white supremacists and has evolved into a cuckolding fetish board.

>>6671186
There are barely 300 million Americans. 3 Billion people live in China and India. The rest of the world is globalizing, how will the majority of Engineers survive the inevitable outsourcing?

Either they'll be replaced for 1/4 the price, or they'll have to take a massive pay cut in the next 20 years.

>>6671223
It was to contaminate /news/men.
Stormfags are still considered shitposters so your point is invalid.

>>6671208
>I still cannot into reading comprehension

>>6671099
that ass...

>>6671241
pervert.
As you can see the theme of this board is blue, meaning this is a christian board.

>>6671149
>Do you honestly believe you're above your hedonistic ape-like desires?

God no, I love to indulge my hedonistic side I just don't try and delude myself that rampant hedonism is all that I need to make me happy.

>>6671099
smells of social-science faggotry.

Well, actually it's your jobs that are most easily done by computers, so guess who's gonna lose their jobs first. Also, nobody gives a fuck about your social-skills bla bla, social skills don't get work done. And Engineering in third world countries is super-shitty, so no big outsourcing here.

The only thing you can study today is STEM.

>>6671253
really? Social skills don't convince someone to buy? Social skills aren't required in negotiating and making deals? That's news to me.

>>6671253
Actually the higher you go up in the corporate world, including engineering the more extroverted people are. You need social skills to manage people and run a business. You need social skills and communication skills to understand what people value to create your own business.

Are do you just want to work for somebody else your entire life?

>>6671253
>ters, so guess who's gonna lose their jobs first. Also, nobody gives a fuck about your social-skills bla bla, social skills don't get work done. And Engineering in third world countries is super-shitty, so no big outsourcing here.

Complex social skills mean everything in finance. Complex social skills mean everything in litigation. Your a fool if you actually believe we're even close to computers reaching near human levels in communication and social skills.

You can't replace social skills, creativity, and some complex hand-eye movements. (auto mechanics won't be replaced for sometime)

But I got a job, just last week, straight out of uni.

>medical writer
>£28k starting

Not easily outsourced and difficult for non-native speakers.

>>6671282
Unfortunately this is the case. I've worked with bankers before. Computers can't replace those guys at the high levels. At the analyst position? Maybe...

Anything else is laughable.

Bankers will rule the world long after we're all dead and gone.

>>6671099
Whatever you you say Mr.Shekelburg.

>>6671099
>Do something which has no value and doesn't live beyond your death or the death of your company
>Do pointlessly boring and non-engaging stuff, with your rewards only being money
>Doing the same thing over and over again, and not mastering anything except sucking up to your boss

vs.

>Do something which earns universal respect, and pushing the limits together with fellow /sci/entists
>Know you are co-operating together for the greater good
>Learn how things work constantly, develop new skills and know everything you do is a step towards self-mastery

Also iunno I'd rather see myself as valuing knowledge and being like past philosophers or scientists rather than valuing useless material things.

>>6671149
>Do you honestly believe you're above your hedonistic ape-like desires?

No, which is why I chose medical physics over real physics.

>>6671099
Only the rotefaggot positions can be replaced, where any codemonkey/mechanized piece of shit the college system produces can perform without actually enjoying it/using external resources/using even the more basic shit they've "learned" or "memorized"

From what I've seen and the projects I've been in, foreigners fucking love to cheat and slack...I mean I slack but this shit is ridiculous

>>6671149
Damn, a faceless useless person is telling me why they're important and I'm not. Another day on 4chan. So, instead of enjoying nightlife with your hard earned cash you decide to post on /sci. Nice.

Well, you continue pretending that you're worth anything whilst I'll kick back, laugh at your grandiosity, and enjoy the rest of the show.

Good job getting me to reply. Perhaps the only way to beat shit posters is by not posting. Back to the shadows.

>>6671099
Also as a banker, nothing you will do will be of note. Your achievements will not be noted for very long after your lifetime whereas a large number of STEM majors go on to hold patents, lead companies, etc.

>somebody mentions they learned a lot from /sci/
>think, "That's bullshit, nobody on 4chan knows shit"
>come here
Okay what the fuck. Everybody on /sci/ is chill and nice.

This is weird.

I'm kind of curious: could you outsource my job?

I work for the county - I go to building sites and judge if they are geologically safe to build on. You can do a lot of the job with just a topo map, but there are some things that you actually have to see in person.

I'm hoping to not do this for my whole life, I'm just curious. Could my job be feasibly outsourced?

>>6671099
Remove kebank

>>6671282

>Complex social skills
>9/10, kek'd

>>6671099
>arts majors getting mad

>>6671134
MIT isn't an ivy league school.

That being said, the top schools for STEM generally aren't the Ivys. Schools like Brown and Dartmouth aren't nearly the research powerhouses as schools like MIT, Cal, Stanford, Northwestern, Uchicago, UMichigan etc are.

>>6671136
Are you fucking serious? I bet you're a C student at Cornell, and telling people you go to an ivy league is the most impressive thing you can claim.

>>6671099
Copypasta?