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Any career advice coming from the prior generation is useless because it doesn't apply to your generation.
Even starting a major because everyone's currently hiring in that field is useless. By the time you're finished, so will all the other students who started at the same time to get a good job down the line.
I gave up my initial plan of becoming an ecologist and went into IT for job security. And now I'm about to be laid off cause the company I work for is close to going under, for the third time.
Meanwhile friends of mine who started their careers as social workers, physical therapists, nurses and in the trades are buying houses while I live in a moldy apartment.
My advice is to just do what interests you, you probably won't starve. Also, disregard this advice if you're just starting out your career. I'm 40, so my experience won't be helpful to you 20 years younger people.
Physical therapists, nurses and people that went into trades I can see making good money, but social workers I am kind of surprised to hear. I thought those were for the most part not paid as well compared to how taxing their jobs can be.
Depends. My friend who went that route positioned herself in a freelancer consultant role for government institutions and schools.
She makes 6 figures.
That makes sense. I can definitely see consulting work paying top dollar in many different professions.
But that seems to me like she has carved out a lucrative niche for herself, which wouldn't scale as advice for a larger number of people. Whereas with the other professions you can probably make good money even just doing more "regular" work.
Nurses seem really unhappy
(disclaimer that this is purely my impression from what i've seen mentioned online, not firsthand knowledge)
Which isn't necessarily mutually exclusive. I was under the impression that the problems have more to do with high workloads and work environments that are chronically understaffed, not necessarily because of low salaries. Not claiming that all nurses are payed well, but it seems like that at least in the US there is a somewhat reasonable path to making good money (assuming you are willing to switch jobs and maybe continue to get sought after qualifications along the way).
Sorry to hear
But who do you think is hiring you? Strictly people of your same age?
Just be careful of whether they're giving advice that benefits you or them