The notation at the bottom says the figures are from 2023. I’d be curious to see what it looks like currently.
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I posted this in another thread but will add it here too:
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Interesting to note that ranking by ‘underemployment rate’ (rather than ‘unemployment rate’) is when the popular majors - nursing, engineering, teaching, pharmacy, CS… - come out on top (ie lowest underemployment). ‘Unemployment rate’ rate is below <10% for all majors, meaning >90% of college grads are employed.
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There are suburban districts right now that have hiring freezes or are laying off teachers. Although teachers can get jobs, they can’t be picky about where (at least where I am).
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I definitely think it depends on location and engineering discipline. My civil engineer had three internships in Atlanta and one in New York City. The New York one paid the equivalent of about $75,000 a year which still was not enough to get furnished temporary housing without parental support. I mean, he probably could’ve found a room somewhere with strangers, but intern housing provided by colleges was a little under 3000 a month as he needed his own room to work from home two days a week. We felt better about having him in that situation with other people his age.
The Atlanta ones varied widely. The first was $18 an hour for an estimating position as his first internship. Then project manager intern for very large commercial construction company, which was better. And finally consulting, which paid the most. Out of his four internships none provided housing.
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Entrepreneurship of what?
you need a product or service which people will pay for. Entrepreneurship doesn’t pay the rent.
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And there are a million times those earning peanuts or nothing at all from their social media attempts. You only see the success stories - it’s a bit like acting or rock stars in that regard.
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“No need to reinforce those engines or those cabins. You never see planes coming back with damage from those areas.”
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Sorry if this was posted before!
I’d love a link to that program, if you don’t mind posting it—or via DM.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Some more international leadership jobs for math majors: Nicusor Dan, the new president of Romania, got two perfect scores in the International Math Olympiad.
I can’t imagine this happening in the US though…so becoming pope might be the better option for most Americans…
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I think AI will create net new jobs but those jobs will be different and the skills required may be different. The biggest issue is that the pace of change is too rapid for the knowledge worker generation pipeline to keep up and adopt.
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Another page on the possibility of entry level jobs disappearing to AI:
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic
S22 started internship with a big tech firm in the Bay Area recently and his manager told him they will only be hiring from he intern class and they plan to do no new grad hiring because of AI. In fact he is the sole intern on a massive product team when in years past they may have had multiple interns.
I don’t quite believe in the replacement theory of AI but the number of spots will get trimmed and school/prior experience etc will all begin to matter more than ever.
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If AI starts to eliminate entry level positions, where are mid-level employees going to come from?
If AI continues to become more capable, then it may start replacing mid level jobs as well. So only the small number of people elite enough or lucky enough to get entry level jobs are needed to move up to the small number of mid level jobs.
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