Slashdot Mirror
High Paying Jobs in Math and Science?
An anonymous reader asks: "Where are the high paying jobs for those who are good in math and science? I've heard about math and science shortages for almost two decades now, and I was wondering what high salary/high demand jobs have resulted from these shortages. Most science majors I know actually make less than teachers (in Texas teachers make $38-40K to start for nine months of work). In terms of money, what career would you pursue coming out of college right now with a math or science degree?"
"Also, your calculations are off, because you aren't considering that there's a second person making money in the family. While some people still have the wife stay home, the vast majority of families have both parents working. So, your 600K becomes 1.2 Million."
And if you put your kids to work, say starting at 5 years old oiling and cleaning machines at the workshop they can get into the hard to reach places without ever needing to stop the assembly line. Say at $4 per hour, thats $16 hours per day. * 52 weeks at 6 days a week, thats about $20000 a year per kid for 13 years. Or $260,000 per kid! For a family of 5, thats another $1,300,000 dollars. Hell.. you'd be foolish to turn down 30k. Its a fortune! Not to mention nothing stops you and wife from working 16 hours a day as well.. so thats another 1.2 million.
so your 600k becomes 3.7 million!
of course.. if you multiply the workforce by 7 fold (by putting men, women and children to work for 16 hours a day) then really wages must fall (law of supply and demand). But think of it this way.. After wages fall to about 1/7th of pre 1970 value (when most families only had 1 earner working a mere 40 hours), and the whole family earns combined what a single parent used to in half as many hours, then the US will finally be able to compete with China fair and square. but hey its a free country. No one is forcing you to work. And if you choose to raise your family on $4000 per year annual salary, thats your choice. But if you think you need some of the extra luxuries, like food and shelter then thats your choice also. sounds like a win win for everyone.
After that I suppose the US will have the advantage since everyone knows that americans are willing to forgo their vacations to live their blessed lifestyle of abundance. (thereby driving down wages, and simply making labour more extensive with no additional abundance for the labourer)
No one has a right to their *own* opinion. They have a right to the TRUTH.