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I really hate academics.
| You *should* get out of STEM if you have no real interest in it. Continuing is just a waste of your time and money, without a guaranteed job after graduation.
| Yeah, just get out of there homie. It ain't worth it.
| It will be a mistake to drop it. Without education you will depend only on luck. I think that i don't really understand, what you talking about. But if this about education, then don't be foolish. Especially if you life in USA or well developed European country, and if you want to have good live with money and staff of that kind.
| If you hate stem switch your major or drop out, don't make yourself miserable.
| I'm curious. How do you get forced into an education? Did someone treathen you?
| Do you hate stem because you can't understand it?
| Hands up, this is a stick-up! Give me your wallets, your jewellery and apply to this school or I'll shoot!
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>>746666
For asian students, this is a recurring problem of being pressured into going to school for an "in demand" and "guaranteed employment" field, which is almost always law, healthcare, engineering, et al. This is fine if the student is already something of a prodigy and can maintain a proper work/life balance. For anyone who isn't interested in science (or powering through something they dislike/don't care for), it's a death trap that usually ends in debt.
| Because in reality, these fields are almost always oversaturated, and when they're oversaturated, you need to rely on contacts, networking, and being the cream of the crop to get a job after work so you can start paying back those literal tens of thousands of student loans, unless you had a full ride (fully paid) scholarship. If you're mediocre, you can't and shouldn't expect to be employed after college- why would anyone want to hire you when your peers were purpose-built?
| Don't get me wrong, I won't ever tell anyone that they shouldn't get higher education, if they can afford to do so and if they're passionate about it. But the biggest mistake most students make, and have made for decades is thinking that university is just another highschool. It is- if you aren't footing the bills or if social life/education balance comes easy to you, and sometimes it just doesn't. Sometimes you aren't meant to be boxed in and you can't fill your parents shoes.
| For clarification, I'm talking mostly about the struggles asian american students face. Not sure how this is for other countries, but the stereotype is that asian american parents often push their children to succeed at any cost, ironically, at the cost of their emotional and mental health.
| >>746668
Not just Asian. It's a common thing here in the west as well. Though, white parents like to pretend they're giving a lot of choices, but it boils down to the exact same thing. School above everything else, you'll have no life without a "proper" education, you need to graduate straight into a field with guaranteed employment. Some aren't like that, and some realise they need to stop being like that when it's turned their child into a mess, but, some just keep pushing.
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| It's all that matters to everyone else around me. I don't care about it and I never had fun with it. I was forced into a STEM field, I really want to get out of here and just, eat a sandwich and be free of any academic obligations. How does /u/ handle academics?