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Any STEM job.

What business and government don't point out in their endless STEM promotion is that the average STEM career has about the same longevity as Major League Baseball --- without the high salaries.

For roughly half the members of any STEM graduating class in the USA, their STEM career ends with college. 50% never succeed in getting a real STEM job.

www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-stem

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Excerpts from it:

> Our central question is whether there is a “STEM crisis” or a “STEM surplus.” The answer is that both exist. Our analysis yields the following findings:

The STEM labor market is heterogeneous. There are both shortages and surpluses of STEM workers, depending on the particular job market segment.

Viewed from that perspective, there is a 50% surplus with every graduating class.

According to the 2014 US census, 75% of STEM graduates were not doing STEM.

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