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>>9454556
medicine = only surefire answer if you succeed in getting it

literally everything else depends on (((network))) more than the degree itself

Petroleum engineering

Has been consistently on the top 10 highest paid degrees. Other degrees are fads (like data science) which may pay more for a small period but when the fad changes, you're fucked.

Entry level salay is >$100k (in USA) with a lot of annual growth.

>>9454556
>Petroleum engineering, mining engineering, nuclear engineering, electrical engineering

Good pay and lots of openings (nuclear is dying a little but there might be a surge in the future depending on the technologies coming out) for these fields.

>>9454556
Choose the thing you genuinely want to do or you will not last long enough to make the good money you want to make
passion means you work better and more enthusiastically, working better gets you raises and promotions at a higher rate

the virgin wageslave works decades and makes fuck all
the inspired Chad is project lead within a couple years of employment

>>9454605
This is a 12 year old who has never lived alone or had a real job

>>9454605
I think this holds true but within reason. If you're passionate about English literature, you'll probably still end up with either no job or a shit job.

>>9454556
mba go

>>9454600
This guy is right.
>>9454595
This guy is mostly correct. You can be a pharmacist at walmart all your life with a Masters in some medical field or you could become a dentist in the rich part of town who knows everyone and literally be a millionaire.

You could also have a PhD in physics and teach at your local comm col all your life, or you could luck out and become a TV personality who lives in NYC and doesn't do shit.

>>9454604
All of those fields are projected to have negative job growth. Are you intentionally trying to give bad advice, or are you just an idiot?

>>9454600
>>9454604
Large starting salary for a select few individuals is not the same as assured success.

>>9454556
We are literally running out of jobs. The only degree that has rising demand is in computer sciences.

>>9454556
Just become an actuary (get a math degree and then take the actuarial exams).
>>9455045
>computer sciences
Or do this if you want to JUST yourself over a meme.

>>9454600
how to get into petroleum engineering?

masters into chem. eng?

>>9454556
Why it would have the be the prestigious and high paying field of Wildlife Biology.

>>9454556
I am currently in Mechanical engineer 1st year 1st semester so far so good a bit boring but mechanical engineering is such a broad degree that you are almost guaranteed to land a more than decent paying job, and it has been required by the market as soon as it was created,imo.

>>9454595
I agree with this, but you really need to love the subject matter in order to stay enthusiastic throughout undergrad in order to be accepted to a top 50 US med school, and then to stay motivated throughout med school and residency. That being said, medicine is so broad nowadays that it honestly is not that difficult to find a field you are thrilled about. You get the meme idealists (i.e. "we need to save all the lives we can" or "medicine is a right" bullshit), skilled hands-on craftsman who go into surgery, and others who end up in the pharm/managerial/executive end. There are many more beyond that, but hopefully that gives you some idea. I elaborated a bit because I started off college wanting nothing to do with medicine since I thought the field was somewhat isolated to the meme idealists, but was later exposed to the latter two, of which I really enjoy the prospective career of. Currently a M2 at a pretty good med school.

>>9455112
Thanks for giving us all advice Mr. College Freshman, but I'm an actual mechanical engineering graduate and I can tell you with a great deal of certainty that there are no jobs and that you've been lied to. Of course this is the part where you try to say it was my fault for being subpar, but no: everyone in my graduating class at a high-tier state university is in the same boat. Best case scenario you get a job paying $50k a year working on air conditioners.

>college is about education

Only a little bit. 85% of college is showing your future employers you were able to commit to something for several years and finish in good standing.

>muh high-paying degree!

Fools. The lot of ya. If you don't have connections, you're fucked. "It's not what you know, it's who you know," is perhaps the most prescient advice I could give to any young adult. It really doesn't matter what your degree says.