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Your degree and your career aspirations - how do they match up?

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Original post by sabana
Degree: Maths
Career of interest: Maths teacher
Expected starting salary: 22k


Don't mean to rain on your parade but the education system is going down the shitter and teachers are treated like **** right now. Plus, as a teacher of a core subject, you will have even more unfair pressure and unachievable expectations. Don't have too high hopes.
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Original post by Princepieman
I'm really interested in seeing whether TSR users are actually in touch with what opportunities there are career wise for their degrees and whether they have accurate expectations of entry level pay. My experience on here has been that people assume that say, any STEM degree will lead to 'high pay' but they never really qualify this statement nor do they express which jobs they are talking about.

So without further ado:

Degree:
Jobs/Careers of Interest:
Graduate Salary Expected:


Degree: Modern Languages
Jobs: university lecturer/academic
Salary: hahahahaha
Patent attorneys need to understand the technical aspects of whichever patent is being proposed. Lots of bigpharma/chemical companies create new products/processes which need to be patent protected.

Accounting is just a general career open to anyone tbh.
Original post by Princepieman
Patent attorneys need to understand the technical aspects of whichever patent is being proposed. Lots of bigpharma/chemical companies create new products/processes which need to be patent protected.

Accounting is just a general career open to anyone tbh.


Oh, fair enough, thanks
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Original post by Anon07079191
Don't mean to rain on your parade but the education system is going down the shitter and teachers are treated like **** right now. Plus, as a teacher of a core subject, you will have even more unfair pressure and unachievable expectations. Don't have too high hopes.


Yes I understand teaching is not the best of jobs and teachers have a lot of pressure but it's what I'm interested in and what I'd enjoy so that's all that matters. If I end up hating it there's no reason I can't change career later on especially with a 2:1 in maths.
Original post by Princepieman
I'm really interested in seeing whether TSR users are actually in touch with what opportunities there are career wise for their degrees and whether they have accurate expectations of entry level pay. My experience on here has been that people assume that say, any STEM degree will lead to 'high pay' but they never really qualify this statement nor do they express which jobs they are talking about.

So without further ado:

Degree:
Jobs/Careers of Interest:
Graduate Salary Expected:

Degree: going into civil engineering
Jobs/Careers of Interest: civil engineering (the relation is real)
Graduate Salary Expected: 26k
Original post by Princepieman
Degree: Maths and Computer Science (Data Science)
Jobs/Careers of Interest: TMT Coverage - IBD, Strategy Consulting
Graduate Salary Expected: IBD: £50k base, 30-50% bonus. Strat: £35-40k base, 10% bonus.

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Ever considered Data scientist? They earn a lot too, have a great work/life balance and do a job that is interesting too. IBD seems, you know, bland, no offence lol
Degree: Economics and Geography (more like Econ with Geog)
Jobs/Careers of Interest: Consulting (tech, strat or environmental) or urban/transport planning
Graduate Salary Expected: £25,000 (more on the low side for strat consulting, but realistic for the others I guess)
Original post by Youngmetro
Ever considered Data scientist? They earn a lot too, have a great work/life balance and do a job that is interesting too. IBD seems, you know, bland, no offence lol


Meh, I don't think I'd be interested in it as much. I'd rather have a 'broad' analytical job than a highly specialised one, both to keep options open for the future and for the variety. Work/life balance is not much of a concern early on in my career.

It's certainly an awesome job though and data scientists are needed in almost every industry.

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Haha yeah!... just says may be useful with its... general transferable skill thingymabobs
Degree: idk yet (3 days till deadline); either econ, econ & social policy, social science with quantitative methods
Career of interest: keeps changing- right now, I want something in policy making
Expected starting salary: £22-30k
Original post by Princepieman
Meh, I don't think I'd be interested in it as much. I'd rather have a 'broad' analytical job than a highly specialised one, both to keep options open for the future and for the variety. Work/life balance is not much of a concern early on in my career.

It's certainly an awesome job though and data scientists are needed in almost every industry.

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Are you suggesting you would quit IBD later on? If so, what are you looking after, like private equity?
Original post by J-SP
The overwhelming majority of graduate programmes or jobs do not require a particular degree discipline. There's a difference between what you "can" do and choosing something you "want" to do that's related to your degree.


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What I want to do will require me to do another 4 years of uni (medicine) so in the meantime I'd need a decent job to save up for it
Original post by Changing Skies
Degree: Biological Sciences
Jobs/Careers of interest: Research scientist (veterinary parasitologist)
Graduate salary expected: Honestly have no clue. I hope to earn between 30-40k eventually.

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Parisites! What would you tell people when they ask what you do? :tongue:
Degree: Geography
Jobs/Careers of Interest: Transport Planner
Graduate Salary Expected: £25.5k + 2.5k starting bonus

A lot better than i was expecting actually!
Original post by hellodave5
Haha yeah!... just says may be useful with its... general transferable skill thingymabobs


Standard really.
Original post by Youngmetro
Are you suggesting you would quit IBD later on? If so, what are you looking after, like private equity?


Depends on whether I like it or not but yeah, tech-focused private equity or the internal M&A team of a tech company.

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Degree: English language and literature
Career: hopefully editing or publishing. But if that fails, teaching it is :biggrin:
Salary: I'm not too fussed by this as I'd be doing what I love, but 22K would be a nice start



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Degree: Ai and CompSci at Notts

Careers: Financial services (S&T or whatever grows interest on me 😉) / developer / investor

Salary: 35k base

Moving forward, a career which will take me all around the world 🌍

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Degree:
BA Mathematics
Jobs/Careers of Interest:
Best case: IB M&A or PE (unlikely as undergraduate)
Other options if finance doesn't work out: Blue chip tech firm, management consulting
Less preferable choice: army 3 years then MBA to one of the above
If everything goes tits up: Sales
Wild card: Tech startup. Depends on what happens the time I'm at uni. Who I meet, etc.
Graduate Salary Expected:
Ranges from around £40k base at the top to £25k base at the bottom.

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