Stumbled on a interesting fact and Id love the classes thoughts
Was doing a little market research and wanted to find out who the largest private employer of scientists are, like if your in school and your big thing is science and your super smart and get a degree in "insert whatever general science degree the particular individual is called to" what are your job opportunities you know?
Sorry if this seems retarded but this fascinates me, we give liberal arts majors deserved shit for picking an unemployable for 99% field. I though STEM was considered a golden ticket more or less, that the people smart enough to parse advanced botany or complex physics or any of the other countless fields of esoteric high learning could find copius employment and at a good rate.
Like I realize writing it down like this it sounds RETARDED but you cant understand how much STEM was drilled into me during my time before college like it was some silver bullet to ever having employment issues, thats genuinely how it was sold by all my older relatives as well.
Ok big reveal
So I get this is just a vast oversimplification but Ive found this search tool to be wildly accurate (to a certain degree) given specific and easy to parse criteria and of course this leaves out lots of jobs or company it might not deem as "scientist" jobs but the fact it included pharmacists tells me there is very few employment opportunity for people with anything other than medical focused science degrees, just look how start just the jump down to adding BIO in front of those Pharmaceuticals.
I dont think this is indicative of the collapse of society or anything like that I was just blown away by how stark it shows where our "high minded" priorities are atleast when it comes to the business world. I guess the only reason this worrys me is without robust sectors of private high end science and research we truly have to take the governments word for most major advancements, medical science is very good and important and I dont want to discount it but It should be remembered the MRI was discovered by rocket engineers at NASA (I know its a government body, its just a good example of how we will make surprising advances in all fields by having a well round scientific base)
I just wonder if we had a 100,000 top level physicist working around the clock just for one year, not to advance state agendas but to consume investment money and turn it into new ideas for HUMANITY
Might be a little to high minded but even if we make it more greed focused for the investors I think it could turn out innovations and progress we dont even think about in our modern era
