>study STEM
>do a lot of free unpaid work for professors in order to "gain experience"
>finally get into grad school
>make a meger stipend
>Chad and Stacy who's highest math class they ever took was precalculus have already started working on their careers in business during undergrad
>Finally earn your PhD, you now need to do a post-doc or two depending on how useful your PhD was
>Chad and Stacy are already raising a family, have their own house, plenty of investments and are well on their way to making 6-figs.
>You're just scraping by and can't even find a wife, likely skinnyfat and balding.
>"I did it because I LOVE SCIENCE!" you mutter to yourself.
>You finally get to start working in the industry because you're not able to get a tenure-track position in academia due to not being a female/minority.
>You are now around 40 years old and finally making $60-80k/yr.
>Chad and Stacy are consultants making $120k/yr, all while having accumulated plenty of rental properties, and investing.
>Your salary caps out in the low $100k; yes, your job is cool and very important, but you have nobody to talk to because everyone already settled down and started families when you were in grad school. The world doesn't care about your existence, so nobody cares about your job.
>You're just some loser living in a middle-class neighborhood, no friends, no wife, no family.
>I did it for science.
