Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 04:35:10 UTC No. 16080583

>>16080543
Aerospace engineering is a "cool" engineering field. But we need five petroleum engineers for every 1 aerospace engineer.

So 2x as many people go for that specialty, but we need 5x in the other one. Thus unemployment.

Same concept with physicist. We need more accounts doing finance math than we need physics calculation math. But physicist sounds cooler to math people, so they go for that over finance.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:01:48 UTC No. 16080755

>>16080543
Does that 6.2% mean that an average physicists will be unemployed 6.2% of their life or that 6.2% of physicists are permanently unemployed?

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:36:26 UTC No. 16080791

>>16080755
Most likely, that 6.2% of physics majors are unemployed at the time of survey. Unemployment fluctuates with the state of the economy (like interest rates), so I highly doubt that this figure is to be interpreted as static and unchanging over time.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:42:41 UTC No. 16080795

>>16080583
We don’t need people doing financial math. It’s absolutely trivial, easy to automate, and produces money without contributing anything of value to society. We do need more physics majors than finance majors since people in science are required to maintain the complicated technologies and ideas that lay the foundation for society. The fact we lost sight of this because it’s not profitable is what creates the competency crisis people are talking about because when we aren’t pushing ourselves to develop more the standards can only possibly decline, and now we have planes falling out of the sky because it’s profitable.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:48:46 UTC No. 16080799

Whether intended or not, this post >>16080795 illustrates why Physics is on OP's list and Finance isn't.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:31:16 UTC No. 16080844

>>16080583
If you can't get a job in finance with a physics degree it's because you're a mid teir intellect with a dogshit CV

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:44:57 UTC No. 16080869

>>16080799
I know, people go into physics partly for the romanticism of it, but my point is really that we don't actually "need" the financial people. I know that's the thinking that gets people unemployed, but the fact is, it's not wrong. We've collectively got all the wrong priorities, and society is degrading as a result.

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 09:45:10 UTC No. 16080870

yawnn, this is getting boring college trannies. Im gonna go fix some toilet pipes and make $200k a year

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 10:46:54 UTC No. 16080970

>>16080795
The only financial math anyone would need would be linear algebra, and only if you worked in Gosplan. In capitalist countries private individuals ought to respond only to price signals, though ministers and VIP finance people might want to understand second order effects of giant investments, they might also use linear algebra for this. High school-level linear algebra

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 10:57:12 UTC No. 16080984

>>16080543
Aerospace companies actually need electrical engineers.
>t. seething aerofag

Anonymous at Sat, 16 Mar 2024 11:13:51 UTC No. 16081001

>>16080543
Nobody needs engineers! I can purchase already engineered mass produced crap right off the walmart shelf! It's the same one 100 million other people use! That's precisely 1 engineer! We only needed ONE.

What we need are GRUBHUBBERS