FUCK YEAR COLLEGE PROFESSOR

>look for musician
>not in chart
fuck you OP

>History Major

I had better get damn good damn quickly.

>implying college is not a massive waste of money

wasteofmoneyblox

attorney. i win.

>Electrical Engineer
>Not on the chart
>I'm as valuable as a philosophy major, Oh well.

>>7909083

enjoy being a retail slave forever.

>implying earnings are the most important factor
>implying you cannot find fulfilment and happiness in menial jobs

You know what my favourite job has been? I was a mailman for two years. Shit was so cash it felt unreal. I'm earning four times my post office salary now but I'm miserable as fuck about the hours and conditions of work.

emergency room physician? 250k to 300K?

LOL NO.

This shit is all fucking wrong. I work in a hospital and our main doc makes about 65k a year, at best.

I don't see Astronaut on that list.

=/

But that's okay, I'm majoring in finance, maybe I can land one of those financial jobs.

>>7909102

makes two of us. We are royally fucked.

>>7909066
>also looked for musician
>lol'd

well, state college porfessors dont make as much as university

>>7909040
how is this the best jobs???
all the jobs look boring as fuck, i enjoy working at best buy fuck u OP

So basically I should've gone into medicine, finance or programming.

I done fucked up.

>>7909040
>If your Major does not get you a job listed in this chart, then be prepared to be poor

What if my major is related to the maker of that chart?

>>7909113

Like actual walk-up-to-the-mailbox mailman?

Shit does sound cash, how'd you get into that?

Also college professor sounds like one of the best jobs ever. Nobody looks down on you for showing up to work high, and the most work I'd have to do is entertaining a room full of kids for several hours a day.

>implying I need an obscene salary to be happy

I don't have expensive tastes.

God damn it, why did I ever think being an astronomer would be cool?

;_;

14 hey

feels good man

>>7909040

I don't see physicist, we make your computers possible you faggots.

Enjoy your models engineers, us physicists are going to blow some shit up.

Peace.

>clinical psychologist

Lol no. My best friend wanted to be one of those. He did a lot of personal research including picking his uncle's brain a lot. It might pay well, but it's not a "best job". It really fucks with your mind, psyche, etc.

There's a lot more to life than money.

>>7909109
>implying I won't be your boss when you finally realize you need to get a shitty job to start paying off your massive debt

>>7909142

Marking exams is a bitch. Some kids can't write worth shit and some kids you can't read their writing. For a class of 150, you're looking at 40 hours of marking right there.

what the college professor.
I never would've guessed.

:D I may not make a mad amount of money, but I support myself (and my cat. Fuck yeah.) and wake up every morning excited to go to work.

Happiness > Money

sweet. I've always wanted to be poor white trash

Also:

College professor pays shit all. Be a research assistant, you get so much cash for that.

>>7909204

I dunno, I figure I'd take the "homework doesn't count, it's there if you need it" approach, and have scantron tests.

Then make the tests kind of easy, so more students pass and I look like a decent, yet lovable teacher.

Those jobs look boring as fuck.

You know what? I quit my job as a $100k a year software devoloper to pursue a career as a slam poet.

Sure, the pay is very variable, BUT the joy I get from speaking my mind infront of a audience easily makes up for that.

Software devolopment gets incredibly dull when you are staring at a screen for 12 hours all day every day. I just wasnt fulfilling to me at all.

Kids, choose a career that you actually want, do not chase paper, you will be much happier in doing so.

>>7909211

What do you do for a living?

Live?

>>7909258
lrn2real poetry

Slam poetry is lamer than kids raps on safety belts.

>>7909258

Which is why I'm looking at pharmacist right now.

Bank + helping people?

Hmmm.

>>7909194

>implying i have debt

Scholarships, grants, and a job, yo.

>>7909244
Being a RA is good and bad - and especially bad in between grant funded jobs... sux man.

>>7909249

Long answer, brah. Kids have got to write essays or else they'll never learn to write (because obviously elementary did shit all for the grammatical side of their brain to develop), and department heads have requirements for test components.
This is all from the child of a arcanadian university professor/doctorate, maybe it's different in the states. It's hard shit up here though and job satisfaction doesn't come from the pay, either.

>>7909204
Unless the college uses blackboard or some other e-learning thing. Then all you have to do is create quizzes, grade submitted essays, and maybe grade discussion board responses.
I find the salary for software programmer to be more than what I expected. I was expecting it to be lower because of the ease (I guess?) of outsourcing and the cheapness of it.

>>7909208

It's a good job..

Don't work straight 9-5 every week for 56 weeks..

Your schedule depends on the time of the classes, time when university is in session etc.. Good healthcare is part of the plan, nice retirement plan too..

I'm a health science major.

LOLblox

>>7909211
for some people, money is happiness

>>7909345
you might want to look at a calender, dude

>>7909331
FUCK YEAR BLACKBOARD, I LOVE BLACKBOARD

The future belongs to computers and old people, so be in a job that involves one of the two.

I/O Psychologists make around 80k your list is wrong

Wow, I can't get over how much anesthesiologists make.

I'm getting married to a guy who's in school for the job at the top. Is that okay?

>>7909431
that's what the list says...

ATTORNEY HERE. FUCK YEAR I CAN TEACH AND PRACTICE.

one depressing thing i read about was guys who wanted to be chemists or whatever

they would go to uni and study hard and get their degree

then where most of them would end up, their job was just working in some factory, packaging pills into bottles

god, that would suck so god damn fucking hard

lolz neuroscience major. I'll enjoy rolling about in money soon enough.

>>7909442

He's in medical school? Haha, good luck not getting cheated on.

AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE NOW
LATER GOVERNMENT

FUCK YEAH THE MILITARY

Intelligence Analyst sounds good.

I made a thread on here earlier today about how I might have to drop out of college because I can't afford to support myself. Maybe it will be a good thing, because my major isn't even on there.

>>7909501
good luck on him actually finishing med school ;o

>>7909293
Hey, I'm looking into being a pharmacist!

Only, I don't really care about helping people, I just care about getting a secured job with a high salary that I can spend on material goods that I never got when I was younger due to neither parents having a college education.

Still, being offered a job with a nice salary as soon as you get out of school is a confidence booster, for sure.

I better get accepted into law school cause what the fuck can you do with a psychology degree?

>most benefit to society
>nurse anesthetist
I don't think so.

>>7909141
I step on more graphic designers every day when I walk to work than I do old gum remnants and cigarette butts. You all think you know something because you know how to make a new layer in Illustrator. Artisans have been making the same mistake since Socrates. You're worthless. Ironically, you needed an infographic to tell you this.

>>7909560
You go get your gallbladder removed without anesthetic.

>>7909467

That's why Mechanical Engineers are such fags. They're high-and-mighty about their degree, when AT BEST they'll be designing computer chips for cell phones.

We Civils are perfectly fine with the mundane banality of calculating slopes to tangents.

>>7909575
>when AT BEST they'll be designing computer chips for cell phones.
Do you not know how fucking awesome that would be? Fuck, walking down the street and seeing someone talk on a cellphone that you made work. You can look at that and go, "Fuck, I made that. That's right, bitches, I made that. Damn, I'm awesome." And if the phone wants to implement visual reception as well as audio, then they're gonna be needing a stronger, faster, and smaller computer for it.

>>7909619

Nobody has ever looked at a modern bridge or freeway and thought "I wonder what kind of retarded pile of shit designed this fucking thing".

Welp, looks like I rank in at 18. I am okay with this.

But triple digit income? Ha. Ha ha ha. HA HA HA HA HA

Only once you establish yourself as a lawyer, and that can take forever/never happen.

>>7909640

Other than me, then, Yes?

>>7909640
Who cares? What matters is that, every time you drive over that bridge, you feel a surge of pride and think, "I made this bridge. Those mexicans gathered the materials and built it, but I made it. I designed it so it wouldn't fall down under the tons and tons of weight that go over it night and day. I made it so that it wouldn't crash into the ground below after a few years of use. I made this. And now I'm using it. Damn, I'm awesome."

I am already number 12. Feels good.

Clinical Psychologist, fuck yeah.

But I think it's interesting that the top 9 aren't nearly the highest paid on the list

>>7909640
People do think about these things, they are just in the minority. That minority happens to frequent internet boards such as this one.

>>7909501
No computer engineering.

>>7909619

You mean look at all those phones and think "Fucking corporations made me release those chips months before they'd be ready. All these phones are inefficient pieces of shit because my bosses are too fucking thick headed and profit focused to let me make a chip that'll last, be cheap to make, use less power, and make every phone better for the next five years."

>>7909686

The majority think that cellphone chip designers are drooling apes.

feels good being an IT professional, man.

>>7909698
That's just business. This isn't the 1920's anymore. Rather than make things to last, products are made to last 1 to 5 years before needing to be replaced. Business sells more that way.

>forgetting that EVERY major can get you a college professor job in that major

Systems engineer? Information technology? What?

I'm pretty sure they're referring to the wrong type of Systems engineer, because there's two types (each completely different): one is an actual engineer and the other has to do with IT. I think this chart meant to say the engineering type of Systems engineer, not the IT type. CNN made a similar mistake.

(Not that anyone actually cares.)

>>7909118
That is absurd. Either the doctor is lying to you, is still in residency (but why would he be the head doctor then?), or is voluntarily working for much less than he could to help out a poor area.

Also, the OP chart is pretty cool because it takes into account things other than salary, including happiness.

these are (mostly) great jobs and all, but if you want to make -real- money, you don't work a salaried job.

not trying to say that money is everything, just putting that out there.

>7 IT jobs
>0 engineering jobs
Haha, fucking losers.

I'm going into Industrial Design. WSJ put it at no. 35 of their top 200

The only type of work I'd do over that is work directly in the entertainment industry, making movies or video-games instead of actual products... though WAIT: entertainment basically IS an industry and the output is a product, so it's still under the purview of ID... so FUCK YEAR!

So basically IT, healthcare, and finance are the only fields worth going into.

>>7909837
If you want to be happy, rich, or secure in your job, yes.

>>7909837
of course not. this is just what cnnmoney likes.

I'm extremely surprised that there isn't a single oil job up there.

>>7909865
Because oil is not a secure industry.

>>7909879
for your lifetime it is.

>>7909865
Oil probably fails hard when it comes to quality of live, since they all have to live near oil rigs in Texas, Iraq, Russia, or some other inhospitable shithole.

Also, I don't imagine they feel particularly satisfied with their contribution to society.

Why isn't investor/entrepreneur on there? I feel wronged.

>>7909954
Because those are not jobs.

I'll be fine OP.

I like how the IT/IS salaries are for senior positions where you're 40-something, and most of the others really are immediately-post-college jobs for the most part.

Don't let this shit delude you.

>>7909949
hm yeah that's probably true. and although a lot of people on oil jobs don't work nearly even close to a full year, they usually have 14 hours a day, 7 days a week jobs.

anyway, I think it's a pretty great contribution to society. make the world go round.

I make $100,000 a year as graphic designer, i'm only 21. I can live with that.

>>7910013

what kind of graphic design do you specifically?

>>7910013
Which firm do you work for?

>>7909990
Only project managers and product managers are senior positions.

The others you can do straight out of college.

>>7910031
A range, but most of my work is Branding and Publication. I also do a lot of data visualisation / info-graphics work predominately on annual reports.

I think I may switch my major to Information Technology, yes/no?

>>7910070

Very, very impressive.

Can you offer some advice as to how you got into where you are now? Graphic des here too, becoming desperate. :(

>>7910013
you may not believe me, but i work freelance. I've managed to define myself through conceptual work and have a unique style that is in demand. I keep up on design trends and constantly evolve.

>>7910099

can you provide any examples of your work?

>>7910099

You aren't Jonathan Zawada, are you? If you are, then I would suck your dick just based on your portfolio.

How did you arrive at your specific style? Was it a result of simply trying everything, or was there a particular style that you tried to emulate?

Connections vs talent? Which wins?

Sorry for all the questions, but you seem to have done all the right things.

>>7910081
All the "Information Technology" jobs on the list require degrees in computer science or some sort of engineering. IT degrees are for helpdesk jockeys.

>>7910124
my website http://www.jvallee.com/index_jvallee.html
i only post my best work obviously.

>>7910081
While IT is not, by any means, a bad field to work in, don't let this chart mislead you. Refer to:
>>7909769
There seems to be much confusion of what a Systems Engineer is: it can either mean a Systems Engineer or a Sys. Admin; two completely different things. Even though the chart denotes the Sys. Admin type, I'm fairly certain that this is a mistake.

So much for my dream of being a Metaphysicist :( Homeopathy is alive and well, but all of the actually interesting pseudosciences are practically forgotten.

>>7910099
I have seen it happen before, so I know it's possible, but you are full of shit. Your marketing-copy tier description of yourself says as much. You couldn't even tell me a graphic design trend that you kept up on, because you're not old enough. Any self-respecting company would not pay a freelancer to brand them.

Anesthesiologists lose half their salary in insurance. Shit sucks bro.

And fuck yeah, programming.

Business owners and Investors are the top tier because as another anon said, they don't have jobs.

>>7910169

hmm, not bad

>Physician assistant
>rank #2
Being a Physician's little bitch is a great job? wat

>>7910174
Lol they aren't referring to sys admins, and sys admins are never called systems engineers.

A system engineer is a person that organizes the front to back integration of an IT system. They plan and manage the implementation of large scale IT systems. For example, they'd organize the development of the servers, database, client platform, and general tech stack necessary to deliver IT functionality to say, a hospital, or a large corporation.

It has nothing to do with the kind of engineering you're thinking of.

The reason no engineers made the list is because they are all going to be outsourced to India within the next 10 years.

FUCK YOU, JULIEN

YOU LIED TO ME.

YOU ARE 26, NOT 21

Going to FSU to get my Bachelor's in Merchandising, then hopefully I will be accepted into FIT in New York and get my Master's in Fashion Design. The dream is to become either a buyer for a couture line or become a designer myself. If that doesn't go through, I will be able to get any top level retail job with ease.

>>7910169
Why is it that designers have some of the worst looking websites on the internet?

>>7910265
A systems engineer is an actual, traditional type of engineer. They manage large projects that require different types of engineers (mechanical, electrical, computer) and coordinate them to create whatever is their goal. It could, but generally does not, have anything to do with IT.

Refer to
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/1.html

The author is incorrect in listing the sector as IT, but the description is accurate.

Perhaps I'm wrong about Sys. Admins also being called Systems Engineers, but a cursory Google search shows that the two terms often go together and interchangeably. Either way, they're both IT sector jobs and have nothing to do with the job the article/chart is referring to.

>>7910417
I'm not even julien, i just want to give some designers some false hope. We are all fucked and will never make more than $60,000.

>>7910417
He's bullshitting you, period. There's not a single infographic or annual report on that site. It's very hard to be making $100,000 at 21 no matter what you do.