A fun read for engineers and scientists

Yesterday, there was a job posting for a print production specialist that paid up to $82k on USAJOBs. Alternatively, I found a posting for a supervisory general engineer that started at $84k. Both in the DC area.

That triggered some humorous exchanges with my navy colleagues. Then, I found the story below this morning:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/education/the-stem-crisis-is-a-myth

Apparently, people don't stay in STEM. And for good reason. The pay sucks when compared to required effort.  An excerpt from the story is provided above.

The rest of the story is a funny read.  Or depressing, depending on your outlook.  Funny because you may as well get a job at Kinko's rather than going to college.  Depressing in that most of us wasted a ton of time and money to get jobs we hate  and buy shit we don't need.