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You can never go wrong with STEM. Truthfully, undergrad degrees aren’t your path to employment. I love economics, which is very employable, and got my degree in economics at a top university. I didn’t have the money for law school or a PHD, and I think taking on massive amounts of debt is retarded. When I graduated, my options for employment were a variety of internships at interesting places, that pay you nothing—or, shit jobs at corporations. Unfortunately, college is not a practical means of getting the job you want.
I became a software engineer. In college, I created a website to make side money. I learned about databases and data science for fun, but also for my empirical research at school. I was an athlete, and was interested in sports analytics and pro sports labor markets, so did my own empirical research. And then, I dropped $9K to attend the first “Dev Bootcamp” in Chicago in 2013. That paid off. Now, I make good money, albeit recently cut by 10% because of Covid, working in a pro sports front office.
To get the job you want you need some sort of specialized training. College doesn’t do that. For physics, the military is responsible for most of the R&D funding in this field in the US. If you join the military, with your physics degree, there are various STEM professions that they’ll fast track you to Captain, available. You’ll get a security clearance and get paid. When done, you can work for DARPA or the Pentagon, or a contractor like Boeing, NASA or Lockheed, in physics, and make a shitload of money. Physics plus a security clearance is super valuable.
