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Author: bawa
Date: 2006-11-17 09:38
You all talk about starting salaries for other jobs, but how many graduates out of the total get those jobs with those starting salaries? They will only work if you manage to land the job in the first place....
There are many many people who won't get their first pay until the late twenties and will probably have to wait another 5-10 years before they get a "proper" salary...they are called postgraduate and doctorate students in almost any field you name. But should we then stop people from doing that? No, because we know that society benefits overall in some way from all that research.
Our universities churn out 100s of economists every year, a tiny percentage will actually work as one. Some "lucky" ones here end up as the cashier in a bank, and delude themselves into thinking that an economics degree was actually a necessity to be able to do that job.
My point is, whatever your field maybe, only a small percentage will actually work in something that is 100% related and find job security etc. etc. Yes, as the spouse of PhD, when we first started out, we were "poorer" than people who had decided to become plumbers (they had 10 years head start in terms of salary, getting a house, car etc). But it again depends on what you think you need to be happy.
In a few years, we had crawled up comparatively, and now I think we are relatively rich, mostly in terms of "I am doing what I like, I am dependent on myself, I can choose what to work" whereas other people seem to be stuck in jobs that look increasingly vulnerable to global economic changes and many of them stuck in routines that they actively dislike.
Someone mentioned about musicians having 0-1 children, I am afraid that is the general trend here, musicians or otherwise.
And look what the poster said about Mexico: despite all the college degrees, how tough it is to find a good orchestral musician.
All the musicians I know here have as good a lifestyle as any other equivalent job, only perhaps more interesting!!
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