Contemporary Education

Science/math is really dependent on the career. I don't think math by itself isn't a very good career choice, but it opens a LOT of doors to other professions, but it's too theoretical to be anything than a professor. Tech/Engineering are ridiculously easy job markets.

I would say that the lack of jobs is more severe in the liberal arts, given that in the sciences there are also industries like biotech or pharma you could work for.

It is startling to see the immense rise in staffing companies with respect to laboratory technician jobs. I was watching Cramer's Man Money segment show and he was talking about how such companies were strong investments now as they were continually on the rise. However, most of these staffing companies only provide temporary contracting positions for a short period of time for staffing. I don't know how I feel about this type of business model, especially if it becomes a dominant business model. I'd like to think of sciences as skill acquisition type studies where the older one gets, the better they get due to accumulated knowledge. However the fact that there would be this perm-floater status across different companies makes job pay and stability seem like volatile factors in a changing market. I mean you are always self-marketing when it comes to the job market, but the growth of staffing companies just irks me.