MUH STEM JOBS

What's up Sup Forums. PhD chemist here. Sent out 1000 resumes, had a few interviews, but either got answers such as "overqualified" or "sorry bro, you don't have 3 years of experience" or they just hired their friend of a friend, because he knew someone in the company (nepotism)
>inb4 autist who doesn't know how to write
Got my resume fixed professionally, still nothing.
>inb4 doesn't know how to talk
I can get along with normies just fine
>inb4 you don't hide your power level in public
I do hide it
I thought I was a loser and I talked to a few of my peers. A lot of them just continued to work at school as postdocs and are staying with their parents at home while not looking for jobs anymore. Others are still trying to find a job while tutoring students at school. I have a few others who went on to work in national lab for $50k but after working for several years there, they can't find a job in a private company. Same with postdoc friends - no company is willing to hire them. I even got to talk to a dude from administration from Pfizer and he explicitly told me that they get resumes from MIT, and as soon as they see if the guy has PhD and/or is a postdoc - they trash it immediately. They would rather hire a bachelor and if he is good, pay for grad school education while working.Three of my friends got a job at east coast chip producing factory making way over $100k a year with no work experience just because they knew someone inside there. Funny enough at least 1 out of 3 failed the interview, but they were still hired, since they knew someone.

I know a lot of people like to make fun of "women studies" "gender studies" but tbqh I don't feel any different from them job-wise. Working as a postdoc is better than no job, however, you are always dependent on the grants which mostly come from the gberment. Who else here fell for the STEM meme? Pls no lar:
>I am a chef at Wendy's earn $800,000
fuck off
>I am an HR nigger and let me tell you...
fuck off as well.

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I always wondered why people would pay thousands for a PhD without having first sorted out a job after gaining it.

You have no experience, why WOULD anyone hire you? when they can pay a current employee to get the degree.

>msc in computer programming
>the day i officially finished school i signed an employment contract for an indefinite period of time (programming, java)
>junior position wihtout any real previous experiences
>20k usd (before taxaction, living in a small city, almost zero living cost monthly expenses are like $400)

>you have no experience, why would anyone hire you
I will bite. PhDs lead teams of chemists and propose how to make stuff more efficient or are part of an R&D which brings a lot of money, especially if something can be optimized and something can be reduced in cost. Also, why were those 3 hired for $100k? They too didn't have any experience. Beats your logic. Additionally, I tried other jobs for experience, but I get slapped with "overqualified" in case you didn't read or can't read. So it's a catch 22.

funny enough, I tried my luck in Texas and even had a friend working there for a company for more than 5 years. Used him as a reference but got rejected. Ironic, him being a bachelor he earns more money than I do. But thanks for advice, I will apply again and see what happens.

Also thought about it, is this a curse? for being on Sup Forums? Are we cursed by (((god))) or (((world))) himself/itself for knowing too much and not being normies?

You were trained as an academic researcher or experimentalist, yet you expect to find a job in industry on those credentials. Do you not see the difference with compsci? PhDs are not interchangeable, and university can degenerate or move away from industry skills.

If you are a phd why wont you stay in the university sphere?

It seems like engineers > scientists. The overall unemployment for stem is between 3 and 10 % depending on the field.

Any recommendations for orgchem books?

Halliburton, Duncan Oklahoma
Full on hiring frenzy
All levels and positions

The STEM meme is real. Guessing you want a private position instead of academic? I dig not wanting to do the never ending post doc route. Would you look at assistant professor, hopefully tenure track, at a smaller university? They won't have the start up money to give you but a couple years in and you will either decide to stay, have networked with other colleges and could go to a higher tier college, or have experience to apply for something private. If nothing else it provides an opportunity to develop your ideas and apply for an SBIR Grant to see if your ideas have commercial application. You can have a start up without investing your personal money this way. Just think about it for a bit.

As someone doing STEM, I can definitely understand why'd you want to get away from the killjoy autistic mood of academia
Have you tried teaming up with another overqualified asshole and come along with some kind of product/procedure that'd be interesting to corporations ?

Well if you know that you do not like academia why would you waste your time on phd.

Most of phd's here just stay in the field and become professors later.

You don’t get a PHD unless you have reason to.

You damn well better know someone or have a nice job lined up when you get out of college.

Even for a masters, you need to know someone or it’s literally NO better than a bachelors if you’ve no work experience and no, things you didn’t in college don’t count.

Work experience is everything, without that you might as put your degree in the shredder. You were meant to make connections in college and have something lined up upon graduation.

That’s half the battle and if you fucked that up well..... I see why you don’t have a job now.

>meme flag
>nobody wants to hire me

They clearly had jobs lined up before they got the PhD whcih you did not.


A company will say your over qualified because they know after a year or two you will leave them for a better job, who wants that hassle? Its a shitty situation you find yourself in but you must have known full well before getting the phd what the situation is. You would have been better off being a lab assistant straight from high school and working your way up within the company and having them pay for extra schooling.
I don't know why Americans are so afraid of starting off at the bottom of the ladder and working up and presume they will get there dream job straight out of college.

No one going to pay some inexperienced college kid all that money and have them handle expensive equipment/teams unless they know someone.

Should clarify the SBIR grant is a mechanism funded thru National Institute of Health (NIH) and is meant for moving research product into commercial. SBIR=Small Business Innovative Research. Lots of researchers, including me, develop product they can sell to industry this way.

It depends on the field, but usually getting a PhD IS experience. I'm in molecular biology getting a PhD, and 98% of my work is actual research and manscript writing, not just a load of classes or whatever it is you think PhD candidates do

I'm in STEM but my path was basically from technician to helpdesk to networking to infosec over 8 years. I just made sure to learn new technology and keep up with.

I make over 110k now and just got a BS in CompSci 6 months ago. I was working 40 hours and taking 16 credits. The degree t helps with my own interest but of course I haven't used it to get a job.

I secretly want to go back and learn organic chemistry and become a doctor. I feel like most people in this field are actual idiots that someone learned an in demand skill.

Go get a trade. Do low volt, you're clearly intelligent enough to transition from low volt to IT as a network admin.

You'll probably have to drop a grand on tools and then 3 grand on comptia IT certifications.

Or be an electrician. The amount of knowledge you have means that the degree you have to get will be a cakewalk and you can probably sleep through most of the classes

>He fell for the STEM meme
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHA

>T. gender studies absolvent working in mcdonalds

You get paid for the stuff you do?
Why do so many people with higher education get refused jobs because "no experience"?

And guess what? If that’s all you have to offer then you’re no better than the other PhD candidates they’ve seen.

All PhD candidates will claim that school is somehow “experience” but it’s fucking not. Research, sure but it’s NOT the same as working and being bad the big bucks.

YOU either have to know someone or standout from the crowd.

One other trick is that rural locations will generaly hire any decent person they can but the trade off is, rural middle of nowhere locations will pay what aligns to that cost of living.

Because being paid $7-12 an hour for being a “research assistant” doesn’t really count because it’s something every grad student does.

Good point
I'm guessing he wanted to maximize his resume with a good-sounding thesis or whatever
Medschool here, not too familiar with how job hunting goes for other fields

Now you know what it is being a corporate scientist.

copyppasta.

>be me
>Oklahoma
>smoked weed perpeutally for 3 years while in college
>got a Civil Eng degree
>NEETed for 3 months after college
>applied for jobs in August
>in 3 weeks time, I have multiple interviews, turned down two offers, accepted a third
>still had more interviews but was happy about the accepted job
>started at 50k
>literally got a 5k raise this week on Wednesday (5 months working)

this is an absolutely true account, but take it for what you will. DO NOT listen to the memes, nothing can stop a fully capable (and qualified) man from getting a job in STEM because there is a clear need for young professionals. most comfy of all is that I only work 35 hrs a week (half fridays).

dont be a brainlet, user

I do get paid a livable stipend.
Most people who "don't have experience" are either bachelors or people with graduate degrees in humanities. I have a friend who took 3 years to get into the field of his undergrad major (marketing). It basically depends on the field and what you can accomplish during your PhD. I've published a decent paper and should be able to do one more, which should be enough to land me a good post-doc position.
Research is my goal career so I'm not worried.

>three years experience
>cant lie on his resume
PhD doesn't really indicate intelligence, only dilligence, and dilligence means squat in todays SJW-infested workplace.

Don't put your PhD on your resume. Just act like you are trying to get a job based on your masters and bachelors. You are not required to disclose. If they ask about the gap just tell then you traveled. Or don't even put dates also not required.

t. In the oilfield as an engineering manager.
The boom is already here.

Through and after HS I went to a Community college with the loose plan of transferring to a 4-year later on... I got a job offer and I decided to do that instead. While I could use more education proof, I've learned pretty much 100% of what I know while working. I've got no debt.
Best decision of my life not to go to college, I can't imagine how indoctrinated I'd be with how impressionable I was, and how open minded I've always been.

>why won't you stay in the university sphere?
1) Pay never changes. Once you are a postdoc, you are stuck with that salary forever.
2) There are too many postdocs, so why pay more?
3) Competition is tremendous. I came from a relatively small school but we had people from Princeton, MIT, Harvard applying to become assistant professors, since they couldn't get a job anywhere else. Heard that the competition was like 100 people for 1 working place. I didn't graduate from MIT or Ivy-league school, so competing with them is just useless.
>compsci
You know, I was looking at taking classes at my school to get a degree there, but they don't teach you jack shit. Nothing that industry asks. Also had a few friends who graduated with CompSci degree but couldn't find a job, since companies were looking for something completely different. It might be different in Netherlands than it is in the US. Keep that in mind. But I do agree hat US colleges are now just a business machine that make money by issuing useless degrees. Higher administration makes more and more money every year, but teachers, grad students, staff make the same as years ago, well, if they get lucky, they get their salary adjusted because of inflation.
>3 and 10%
yes, that is true, however, if you look at pic related majority of STEM graduates are employed elsewhere, and not in STEM. I believe about 50% of chemists are not working as chemists, the other 50% or so are mostly postdocs.
>orgchem books
It's up to your preferences, but i really liked L. G. Wade's Jr Organic Chemistry textbook. I used 6th edition when I studied. Be sure to buy a solutions manual and do all (or majority) the problems in the book after the chapter and compare them to solutions manual. If you are good at pattern recognition, org chemistry will be easy for you. Other book I recommend is Organic chemistry by Francis Carey.

how to get into the oil industry with no related exp, but degree in civil eng and work in transportation/construction field?

t. oklahoman

shitty bait

I too have a PhD in Chemistry. Worked at central research in Pfizer. That sound like BS. What’s your background? Synthetic?

>be current year
>be you
>doesn’t know about consulting for MBB or Tier 2
you’re most definitely a fuckin nerd, faggot

I'm doing marketing because I wanted to blow off college with a joke major that would require the least amount of time investment (I'm also taking mostly online classes) and because I don't really care about salary amount.

How hard would it be to find a job? I preferably want to work from home.

it costs a shit load of money to hire someone

and it's wasted money if that hire turns out to be a bust ( for whatever reason )

it doesn't matter that you sent out 100 resumes or 10,000...irrelevant

you're looking for the right job, not just a job
after all, you're an advanced degree holder, so you have invested a Lot in yourself getting ready for the job you are looking for

be like a guy looking for a date
be patient
and don't let your prospects smell desperation on you

best of luck

>what should I do?

Software Engineer here, out of college making 120K, up to 145K now

STEM is a great career IF YOU ARE GOOD AT IT AND LIKE IT
That's it. You hear of people making tons of money and loving their jobs.
Why?
Because they love STEM and love doing STEM.

You get these soybois and shrieking feminist banshees who genuinely think that sending emails all day and making power points delivers value to anyone.
Meanwhile autistic nerds will build entire systems in their free time because they enjoy it and apply all the knowledge they've gains during their day job.

My college friend group has about 10 STEM majors.
Other than me, 2 of them HAD jobs and now don't.
I'm probably the only one that completely enjoys what I do, and it shows.

The 2nd part that's needed is actual drive to get a job.
I sent resumes to like 20-30 companies at career fairs and sent thank you emails with my resume to literally every person I contacted.
Same thing for interviews, letters and thanks yous everywhere.
Most people can't get off their ass to do anything besides submit onto an online portal.

>TL;DR
>"Don't like doing STEM? You won't end up doing STEM."

Don't be upset because you wasted 5 years of your life slaving away at college getting waist high in debt just to get a 50 hour a week job that you hate just so you can buy a slightly nicer house and car that doesn't even matter because you have no friends/significant other to share them with

It's okay buddy

I'm doing accounting as my major. Don't really care if I get a job though since I intend on becoming a NEET anyway after I get cash to move out.

Have you tried Intel or Lam Research?

>using 2d figures to represent 1d quantities
I'm surprised there is any job you are overqualified for. This is textbook lying with numbers.

It's not nepotism to hire friends and people you know. You already have an idea of their character and if they will work well with others.

You sound like an asshole just from your post and I would not want you working in the lab with me.

t. PhD battery chemist

You sure your employment problem is not because of living in russia? Your economy has suffered a bit.

>slightly nicer
Starting salary is 75k + bonus as a 21 year old
>no one to share it with
constantly traveling to new places with money + actually being someone people want to talk to
Congrats, you’re a literal retard tier faggot with no social ability

indeed.com/m/jobs?q=Entry Level Chemistry PhD

Keep shotgun blasting your resume faggot. It's a numbers game.

Picked the wrong STEM and stayed in school too long. Software engineer, bachelor's; factoring in bonus and options I made almost $500,000 last year. I don't live within 500 miles of either coast.

Should've became a lineman. Wouldn't have wasted so many years in school, and you'd be making 100k+
Ill be retired by 50.

PS for non stem the situation is likely worse.

I also fell for the STEM meme and studied biology. Thank god i noticed my mistake and got lucky enough to get into med school. Its a huge time investment but still way better than trying to make biology work.

Why can't you just not write your PhD on there?

Good wagecuck, your salary is what defines you as a person! You really need all that money to take your mind off the 50 hour work week that you hate! Even though the people who didn't fall into the wagecuck meme are happily enjoying their lives, they simply MUST be upset because they don't have the newest iPhone or a brand new 2018 car, they're just hiding their unhappiness! Yes, that's it! Your salary is all that matters, and don't forget you need to work overtime next week! tick tuck wagecuck!

I'm actually laughing at idiots like you. The same posters who talk about hating their lives and wanting to kill themselves. You unironically fell for the memes

this but fell for stem biochem minor. 2 year into program decide to use my associate degree to look at jobs
>lab cleaner $12 an hour, phd minimum.
dropped out to work trade while going to school for civil tech, graduated and got hired literally whenever i need job. starting wage 22 + bonuses and no loans

If you have a math, physics or engineering degree you can do finances or business because you are good at math. Companies actually value those guys over actual finance or business majors because they are gonna be better at math.

This. I am interested.
Was thinking of doing this. Idk what else to do, but I am just scared that if they start calling my references one of them will fuck up and expose me.
STEM PhDs are less than 2% of population in the US, which would indicate above average intelligence
>smoked weed perpetually for 3 years while in college
>in 3 weeks time, I have multiple interviews
>calls my story copypasta
ok kid

>school is somehow “experience” but it’s fucking not
yes because working in the lab and doing basically the same kind of work as R&D person does in industry but only in a different environment officially classified as school is not experience. You literally remind me of HR niggers and recruiters that contacted me and didn't even know wtf was H2O and didn't know jack shit about chemistry or science, but apparently they were qualified to be STEM recruiters or STEM HR.
Do IT certificates count towards applying for a job? Because I don't want to end up getting more education only to get rejected for "no experience" in the field, I am not a 20 yo youngster anymore where I can afford to waste time
So school is useless. Well... good to know. I wish internet was just as developed now as it was before when I was at school so that I could learn about all the pitfalls of job hunting.
>become a doctor
We once had a woman who finished her M.D. PhD give a seminar. She was $250k in debt, and she figured that by the time she is 50, she will be able to start saving.
Seems like a lot of anons don't know what grad school is. They probably think it's like college where you take classes and at the end get a paper for it, which is absolutely not true. Ok, I am not asking for a dream job. Is $50-55k a lot to ask for a STEM PhD? In some states it's fucking nothing (NY, CA etc).
>no one going to pay some inexperienced college kid
yeah ok achmed

Sorry, your job was taken by work visa pajeets because the company can pay them half the salary they would need to pay a white man.

post pay stub

Changing proxies. US user.

>wagecuck
You’re getting a meme degree aka marketing
It’s time to go back to your online classes to work as a telemarketer

Just make shit up and lie as far as you can get away with

STEM intern here, I make 20.75 an hour. There is still potential to make money, but you need to get experience while in college. I know people who’ve graduated without it who are unemployed.

You are lying, I'm finishing up my PhD in chemistry this year and have interviewed with several companys and already have a few job offers. I've had no problems and career is going to be easy mode for the rest of my life, slogging through grad school is paying off.
Again, you're either a liar or you are doing something horribly wrong.

How is it wagecuck when I'm getting a 6 figure sal in my late 20s? I can do whatever I want with my money while you cry wagecuck with no money or friends. Step your money up

This.
>good at it and like it
So many people are good at and like it. However, when you come to grocery store nobody will give a fuck about it and will still ask "cash or credit?" will you have any of it if you don't have job?
>actual drive to get a job
because I am not sending resumes already and not networking. Ok.
>making 120k to 145k
post pay stub or I call bs
occupation?
post pay stub

>Do IT certificates count towards applying for a job?

of course they do

and i can smell the desperation on you through the internet

relax ,or you're going to have a long hunt

how many pubs?
first author?
impact factor of journals?
willing to move?

Where are you located? Depending on your thesis work (biochem, synthesis, catalysis, spectroscopy, etc) you will have to relocate. New Jersey/Pennsylvania are decent if you did physical chemistry, a postdoc I know just got a great job at merck, making six figures. If you really have the drive you can always learn German and relocate there, they have a dire need for actual high skilled labor and there's so much industry you can do in Germany, or alternatively if you don't mind insect-minded yellows you can work in China. Good luck lad

Any respectable PhD program pays its students you mong

I have a STEM degree (BSEE), took me a little while to find a real job (this was a couple years after the 2008 recession, and job market still wasn't really great), but ended up finding a pretty good job. Actually a bit overqualified for the job if anything, it's a technician job, would consider it somewhere between blue and white collar work. But it pays well (I'm up to like $75k after 5 years) in a very low cost of living part of the country.

I will say that STEM degree is more valuable than degrees in most other fields, and counts for a lot to employers. There are a number of people at the company I work for with STEM backgrounds working in project management and other positions that are good jobs and pay well, but aren't necessarily directly related to their major.

>you are a liar
>I have a few job offers
Literally who?
>I've had no problems and career is going to be easy mode for me
based on my experience and some others in this thread, you are the one larping here. Fuck off.

I don't think he's lying, I just think he's an asshole and that's seeping out into his resume and cover letter alone, trashing him. I can't stand to read his posts.

I know people that have had a tough time finding a job out of gradschool but it's really how you sell yourself and what kinda of problems you solved relative to what a company needs you to solve. I had a hard time finding a job (but I did wait until last minute prior to defending) and found two viable options thanks to my professor being a bro sliding my resume into the folders of two friends, one funding one of my projects during gradschool.

Going undergrad to PhD with no work experience in between is a sure sign of laziness and timidness. Outside of academia people only care about people that actually do stuff, and anyone that's been in today's universities knows that there's a whole lot of not actually doing anything. If you didn't contribute something novel and useful to the industry while getting your PhD, why would anyone think you'll do the same outside of the safety net of school?

lie more
you're smart, tell them what they want to hear

You think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?

same shit except BSc biochemist

Dude, what is your background? There are lots of synthetic jobs out there.

Architectural Engineer in Texas here. PE. We could really use more smart fucks going into construction instead of some computer kike shit or ((((((healthcare)))))) artificial subsidised shit.

Work for free. If you are useful, you'll eventually get paid. The "you're overqualified" meme just means we don't like or trust you enough to pay you. Employers never let quality talent go easily.

Also, we'll always hire someone we know over someone we don't. The best employees are found through recommendations of people, even over organizations, we already trust and respect. If you don't know anyone like that, you'll have to work your way up from the bottom.

Btw, it's always been this way, but people have climbed up the social ranks despite obstacles. The only difference now is millennials have a greater sense of entitlement because of shitty parents and Obama.

Have you tried a recruiter?

Yes, goyim, you don't need to be paid with cash. Think of it as being paid with experience!

Work in the oil for artificial food field.

My engineering professor told us there is no point in getting a masters or a PHD.

He told us that people that go for higher education usually specialize and are uncomfortable or resistant to doing things outside their narrow view of focus.

Meanwhile the employer wants you to be able to do a variety of tasks.

Its really not. Every good school will have employers coming and giving presentations.

It's the opposite for chemistry. PhD shows that you can learn and take on new tasks and therefore act as a scientist, not a technician or operator.

>he's an asshole and that's seeping out
>can't stand to read his posts
cry me a river roastie
>what kinda of problems you solved relative to what a company needs you to solve
Each company has its own needs and problems. They are all unique. Chances are that if you come from another job you won't have the same skill set as they are asking. Also, you can't do whatever you want at your lab, because your PI has full control of research and he is dependent on the grants which ask him to do that research.
>my professor being a bro
So you got a job through nepotism. So much skill and effort.
>Going undergrad to PhD with no work experience in between is a sure sign of laziness and timidness
Yup. Working 60 hours a week with no vacation doing research and teaching in grad school is being lazy. Sure thing user.
Degree is chemistry, worked with materials and catalysis.
yes. I had 5 recruiters. They were all useless unfortunately. Promissed me a lot, helped me in applying for jobs, but they told me that I was "overqualified" for all the jobs they applied to.
>Work for free
Ok, so how do I eat and pay for rent?
>Also, we'll always hire someone we know over someone we don't.
Well, if all my friends/acquaintances are hockey players but I need to hire a civil engineer, should I still hire my friend to do the job of a civil engineer? As much as I like my friends, I wouldn't.
>it's always been this way
The 1-3 years of experience is after 2008. I looked it up and because so many people lost their jobs, they were desperate to get any job, so they started applying for entry-level jobs. So employers got really happy and stopped taking college grads for jobs and raised their requirements. So I doubt it's always been this way.
>greater sense of entitlement.
Yes, asking for something above $50k is entitlement with my degree.

>Work for free. If you are useful, you'll eventually get paid.

same here bro. BSc in mathematics, know python, machine learning, deep learning, etc. have a decent portfolio on github, no one calls me back after sending out hundreds of resumes. even got ~4 years experience while undergrad (took me 5 years and kept my contract 1 year after grading) doing analytics and programming for a research company.

going back for my MSc possibly, since every company seems to require it now even to be a basic data analyst, but im not so sure it will even help.

i now do a basic labour job just to get by.

please kill me.

Graduating at the end of this semester(chemical engineering) and to give you an idea that connections are good but once you have experience it’s worthless I’ll give my trajectory.

Plenty of unskilled jobs before college but the summer in between my freshman and sophomore year I worked as a line worker in an ice cream factory thanks to my mother knowing the owner’s wife.

Using the experience I got an internship at my school’s career fair for the following summer with a consumer product company. I went out of my way to do as much work as possible and then sought out my own work when I completed everything, saved them roughly $200,000 with my one project and aided in other capacities.

The following summer at the career fair I got an internship with a paint company and reformulated 150 paint formulas, created a program to help their chemists continue this work, suggested process changes, solved their mixing issue by bringing a professional entirely by accident, reduced solvent loss, and created a standardized best practices for their operators.

Now lined up for a job with the company I interned for with a starting salary of 68k and 5k signing bonus. I know I’m worth more than that, but the security of a job for my entire senior year so I can finish school persuaded me. After two years of more experience I intend on moving.

I was warned about over qualification, companies want to see you have proven your worth. That you can implement changes and give them results. When all you have done is been in school for 8+ years the only thing you have proven is you can sit on your ass well. I listened to the work my classmates who worked with academics were doing and I would have accomplished what took them a summer in two weeks with the resources I had at either company I worked at. Meaning I can show worth much easier working than researching. You fucked up; you just STEMed wrong. Also chemistry majors are seen as jokes.

>Falling for the STEM meme
>cucking yourself out of positions of power (business, law, government) because they are for "brainlets"
You guys are all a bunch of sheep. Accepting a 60k a year wageslave job and thinking you are all 190 IQ geniuses, lol. Nurses make more than any STEM job.

>chemist
Should have gone with math.
I make 300000€ every week.

I got a Bachelors Comp Sci degree from the University of Pittsburgh, I moved to West Virginia to work as a developer and make 44k a year. I am in the top percent of incomes in my town here which is pretty nice. I could make more if I went back to pittsburgh, but why would I want to?

Aren't PhDs basically worthless even in most STEM fields? I wouldn't even consider a Masters unless the particular job I had lined up required it

Please enlighten me on a field that actually needs a PhD

Anything Social Science related.

what did you do during grad school?
Did you only do research?
Did you ever do outreach?
Did you participate in graduate organizations on campus?
Did you go to seminars and visit with the speakers to network?
Did you present at conferences?
Did you publish?
Did you network with senior gradstudents and postdocs that got jobs?

You can't just sit around and hope a job falls into your lap. You have to be active in not only selling yourself but building a network, just like in any other professional field. Again, I'm having no problems finding a job. Sounds like you fucked up.

>social science
So nothing of relevance then lol