Where the money is. (A sortable data base) WSJ.com
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Drill baby drill.
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING $83,000 $127,000 $178,000
Just a side note: 100% of the kids coming out of my son's school in his major (engineering) got high paying jobs last year when they graduated.
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING $83,000 $127,000 $178,000
Just a side note: 100% of the kids coming out of my son's school in his major (engineering) got high paying jobs last year when they graduated.
I've always felt anything from a school of management is a good choice in preparing for the business world. Marketing is a relatively easy major that's valuable. My son is in a SOM. When he has to declare his major junior year he plans on selecting finance and economics. He wants to work on Wall Street.
After looking at the list, I'm reminded of the fact I've never met someone with a Nursing degree who wasn't working...or at least I've never met one who wasn't working who WANTED to work.
Something else I found to be pretty interesting. If you sort that list by Unemployment Percent, the highest are:
Clinical Psychology at 19.5%
Misc Fine Arts at 16.2%
US History 15.1%
Library Science 15%
Educational Psychology 10.9%
Something else I found to be pretty interesting. If you sort that list by Unemployment Percent, the highest are:
Clinical Psychology at 19.5%
Misc Fine Arts at 16.2%
US History 15.1%
Library Science 15%
Educational Psychology 10.9%
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On the other hand tons of successful high earners who graduated with "trash degrees" or no degree at all...education, motivation, passion. success thinking and fate come in many different packages... wind 'em up and let 'em run for a while...I for one would hire an athlete over a non-athlete with most non technical egrees due to the skill set that have learned through their "work"....
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On the other hand tons of successful high earners who graduated with "trash degrees" or no degree at all...education, motivation, passion. success thinking and fate come in many different packages... wind 'em up and let 'em run for a while...I for one would hire an athlete over a non-athlete with most non technical egrees due to the skill set that have learned through their "work"....
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BOF, any idea of how many engineering majors are on this year's team at Trinity?
Well put observer...Steve Jobs.
Lads, I am not sure probably only 2-3. I will ask my son. I think historically it is small 2-4. The department as a whole is small. His roommate is a athlete (non-baseball) and is in the program, he is also friends with a s****r player. They are doing some really leading edge stuff there. They have started an entrepreneurship program there, with cross major kids all staying in the same affinity dorm. Really cool stuff.
Lads, I am not sure probably only 2-3. I will ask my son. I think historically it is small 2-4. The department as a whole is small. His roommate is a athlete (non-baseball) and is in the program, he is also friends with a s****r player. They are doing some really leading edge stuff there. They have started an entrepreneurship program there, with cross major kids all staying in the same affinity dorm. Really cool stuff.
don't do what I'm doing if you want to make money, math with an endorsement in secondary ed.
quote:Originally posted by BOF:
Drill baby drill.
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING $83,000 $127,000 $178,000
Just a side note: 100% of the kids coming out of my son's school in his major (engineering) got high paying jobs last year when they graduated.
All the cheap oil is gone. My son was teamates with a couple of guys that got petroleum eng. degrees. $90K was the starting pay. Those guys can spend a few years doing that then open their own deal.
quote:Originally posted by RJM:
I've always felt anything from a school of management is a good choice in preparing for the business world. Marketing is a relatively easy major that's valuable. My son is in a SOM. When he has to declare his major junior year he plans on selecting finance and economics. He wants to work on Wall Street.
Not sure what your son wants to do on Wall Street. I spent the '90s there working for a large Bank/IB. Out of 40 people in my group, I estimate that only 10% did not have what I would call a technical degree like engineering, math, physics, biology etc. (I was in the 10%.) As a matter of fact, Applied Math was looked down upon by many. Hard to go wrong with an engineering degree on Wall Street. (Everyone in the group had a Masters and many had a PhD.)
Thanks for your input without asking any questions. Negative attitudes don't go very far in our house.
All the petroleum engineer I knew (lived in Houston so knew a lot) have moved to other industries! Many of the jobs required them to spend lot of time in desolate locations.
Become a pharmacist. High pay, work anywhere in the country, and always have a job. Can work in hospital, icu, cancer tx, pediatrics, womans and childrens, nuclear pharmacy, pharma research, and more.
Or can work in retail cvs, rite aid, walgreens, etc.
Or can work in retail cvs, rite aid, walgreens, etc.
In terms of landing a job outside of school you can't do better than accounting. The "Big 4" are about as recession proof as they come. Business in general is a good bet as you will probably be able to find something out there.
Yes, petroleum engineers are in high demand ( though the work locations are something not exactly to be desired ) but very few percent of the student population are even eligible for this type of job.
If you want to go to Med school or Law school then the undergraduate degree is completely different. I think the closer you get to liberal arts the harder it becomes to find a job outside of school.
I was a business student that graduated in 2009 and luckily baseball helped me get an interview in which landed my first job. It was just a stepping stone job, but it was in finance and a good starter. Don't forget though, usually these types of degrees require more work and time while at school.
Ken Jacobi
Author of "Going with the Pitch: Adjusting to Baseball, School, and Life as a Division I College Athlete:"
Yes, petroleum engineers are in high demand ( though the work locations are something not exactly to be desired ) but very few percent of the student population are even eligible for this type of job.
If you want to go to Med school or Law school then the undergraduate degree is completely different. I think the closer you get to liberal arts the harder it becomes to find a job outside of school.
I was a business student that graduated in 2009 and luckily baseball helped me get an interview in which landed my first job. It was just a stepping stone job, but it was in finance and a good starter. Don't forget though, usually these types of degrees require more work and time while at school.
Ken Jacobi
Author of "Going with the Pitch: Adjusting to Baseball, School, and Life as a Division I College Athlete:"
LOL. I think when I graduated from college it was the "Big 8" accounting firms.
That's what mergers, deregulation, scandals, and Enron will do the an industry, lol.
Over 1/3 of all their revenue now is from consultiing and such. They are almost not even "accounting" firms anymore.
Still, they offer high paying jobs, though from what my friends tell me, it is not the most exciting job of all time. Money is important but YOU HAVE to enjoy what you are doing to. I think that's why so many people end up back in baseball.
Ken Jacobi
Author of "Going with the Pitch: Adjusting to Baseball, School, and Life as a Division I College Athlete:"
Over 1/3 of all their revenue now is from consultiing and such. They are almost not even "accounting" firms anymore.
Still, they offer high paying jobs, though from what my friends tell me, it is not the most exciting job of all time. Money is important but YOU HAVE to enjoy what you are doing to. I think that's why so many people end up back in baseball.
Ken Jacobi
Author of "Going with the Pitch: Adjusting to Baseball, School, and Life as a Division I College Athlete:"
Graduated back in 1981 - those were some sought after jobs back then.