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Bricksnbeatles
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higher than studio art? Daaaamn.
bean
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College majors with high unemployment
Anthropology: 9.4%
Physics: 7.8%
Computer engineering: 7.5%
Commercial art and graphic design: 7.2%
Fine arts: 7.0%
Sociology: 6.7%
Computer science: 6.1%
Chemistry: 6.1%
Information systems and management: 5.6%
Public policy and law: 5.5%
Mentaltossflycoon
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Congrats and condolences! My drummer has a bachelor's in music performance - jazz studies. I bet that if we sliced this group out of the greater fine arts category we'd see much bigger numbers.
Harry Klippton
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Can confirm. I have a degree in sociology and I am long term unemployed
Someone will have to sift through the rubble...
Bricksnbeatles
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Job market is rough. My degree is is studio art with a concentration in ceramics and sculpture, so of course not the most marketable degree around, but still… I graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors at a top ranked university, and the only potential lead I’ve found in the 6 months since I graduated is that a new Trader Joe’s is opening near me and they’re hiring cashiers soon. 
Paradox916
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Permanently unemployed here and unfortunately being an idiot doesn’t qualify me for disability.
derevaun
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In case you haven't gotten enough bad news, anthro is a main feeder for grad school--especially, law school. But social science degree holders often do better and are more sought after in programs like MBA, UX design, or marketing & advertising, than kids with degrees in the actual fields. That usually applies to grad school financial aid awards too.
Blackboarcult
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As a graduate in Anthropology, I can tell you there's not many job prospects outside of academia itself*. BUT: anthropology opens a lot of doors to Masters and Postgraduate courses in lots of fields and disciplines, kind of a skeleton key to a whole array of specializations. Plus the insights into the workings of culture and society are such a perk in so many jobs/life in general. I am currently doing a postgrad in Conflict & Strategy (political sciences/laws field), and had absolutely no issues accessing it with an anthro degree.
* I live in Scandinavia. YMMV across the pond
Edit: not too bad, in your neck of the woods https://careercenter.americananthro.org/jobs/tennessee/
* I live in Scandinavia. YMMV across the pond
Edit: not too bad, in your neck of the woods https://careercenter.americananthro.org/jobs/tennessee/
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leadfoot
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We live in strange times when fields like physics, engineering and computer science are some of the highest unemployment rates.
tegendemuur
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People were told there was a bright future there, and now there's too many with high degrees, but no plumbers or installers and such jobs where nowadays' money is... That the case in the Netherlands at least. Too many parents pushing their kids into as high an education as possible, but you only need so many of those, and all of them are now welcomed by a very limited job market.
My son is a graduate architect who is just about to get all the letters after his name. He wasn't top of his class but got a great job through recommendations from architects he had done prac with. Still, he doesn't make anywhere near what school friends who became carpenters (chippies) or plumbers. Here tradies makes serious cash, especially if they work FIFO. But I guess long term my son will be ok. He wants to eventually start his own business designing houses. And his back won't be toast!
(FIFO = fly in fly out; ie working on the mines up north in Western Australia. Big bucks to be made up there)
(FIFO = fly in fly out; ie working on the mines up north in Western Australia. Big bucks to be made up there)
giovanni
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After the massive layoffs in 2023, the job market for software engineers has totally crashed for the first time in like 20 years (maybe more). It sucks for young people who were told to get those degrees. It also kinda sucks for those of us who are lucky enough to have kept our jobs who now have to deal with employers who have all the negotiating power (well, a lot more than before, unless you are an AI expert which… yuck).
Betty Wont
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Those who can, do. Those who understand, teach.
I have a degree in Oenology. I've never made wine, I don't even drink. BUT, I teach chemistry. So, it'll figure it's way out.
I have a degree in Oenology. I've never made wine, I don't even drink. BUT, I teach chemistry. So, it'll figure it's way out.
