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10068810 No.10068810 [Reply] [Original]

Are you happy that you're majoring in math, leading to an inevitable unemployed adulthood?

I'm 24 and make $250,000 a year as an investment banker

If all of you are so smart, why don't you enter finance and make a FUCK TON of money?

What's the downside?

>> No.10068822

>>10068810
You could make the same argument about human trafficking

>> No.10068828

I don't want money. I just want to not waste my life working on some bullshit I don't care for. I does not matter if I make $50k or $500k. I'm still wasting my precious time working for the man, probably on something I do not morally agree with and definitely something I care for. I am not a consumerist NPC so money is nothing to me.

>> No.10068832

>spend the best 50 years of your life working on shit you don't care for
>retire with millions in the bank at 65
>?????
>sad stupid wasted life

>> No.10068836

I thought math majors usually end up in high paying finance positions if academia doesn't work out or is this another /sci/ meme I fell for

>> No.10068858

Personally I plan to do a post-doc than try to get into some administrative job in the public sector or at some non-profit scientific institute. I would not tolerate working for Satan.

>> No.10068862

>>10068810
you're wasting your most important asset, time
on meaningless bs
you know the price of everything and the value of nothing

>> No.10068927

>>10068828
>>10068832
>>10068862

>make tons of money
>retire early

>do what you want that isn't working

what's your excuse?

>> No.10068943

>>10068810
But I'm not a math major. Frankly I'm not good enough with nor care about money to work in finance. It's not a cope either, I genuinely want to work in an ecological field. If it gives me enough money to buy beer and a 4x4 truck then that's great. But the most fulfilled I've ever felt is doing this work and I wouldn't trade it for an early retirement.

>> No.10068949

>>10068927
name one (1) person who actually does this

>> No.10068952

>>10068927
>working at a job you want to retire from

I am so sorry

>> No.10068957

>>10068822
There's plenty of downsides on this endeavor, though.

>> No.10068961

>>10068810

how do i (((enter finance)))

STEM sucks donkey balls

>> No.10068962

>>10068810
Because of sunk cost and because I think there's more jobs in stem than in business.
One of the people I know went into business graduated this summer and can't find a job.

>> No.10068965

>>10068810
Finance is for chads. I'm not socially ept enough.

>> No.10068969

>>10068810
>I'm 24 and make $250,000 a year as an investment banker
So in other words you produce nothing of use or value and otherwise are a parasite on the efforts of others?

>> No.10068976

>>10068952
>my life is my job
good boy

>>10068949
Me

>> No.10069102

ITT sour grapes. Pretty pathetic honestly.

t. unemployed STEM major

>> No.10069319

>>10068927
That fundamentally misunderstands how human life works. You do your prime work in your 20s and 30s. Then you move into management and use your experience to help the young ones. If you retire you just have nothing to do. Then you are like a headless chicken that cannot accomplish anything but sit around eat and shit.

>> No.10069354

>>10069319
Do you have like, any personal hobbies?

>> No.10069384

>>10068810
Go back to biz you filthy larper