• theletterd@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m not blaming anyone for studying anything. I’m simply stating that the bill for that education will come due and it might be a good idea to have acquired a skill to help pay it if the projected return on investment is non-existent.

    Ever have a conversation with people in your local service industry? I live in a major US city and this is a common story:

    • liked art
    • got into art institute of ___
    • now have 200k of student debt
    • didn’t finish, now work at this bar and another to pay off the debt
    • still dabbles in art but can’t get anything off the ground

    Do you think they’d have advised a younger version of themselves to do something else?

    A nice thing about Physics: quantitative reasoning is a highly valued skill in many paying jobs and something you have to acquire along the way to learning things like QED. The end result of knowing, say, if a neutrino has mass isnt terribly useful.