How many of you are currently employed (graduates only)?

[Boolean Boogey]

Nitpicking it is pointless/counterproductive/insulting/disruptive.

Nitpicking is also a great way to learn. It's a shame people are so sensitive and unable to debate for fun these days, always so quick to take offense.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Nitpicking is also a great way to learn.

No, no it's not. Countless threads have been rendered ineffective because they have been derailed by someone who would rather nitpick than actually answer the posted question, and it's only because of the efforts of the Mentors that there are not an order of magnitude more.

This particular quibble is especially pointless. It boils down to "you could have asked a different question." Yes, he could have. But he didn't. He asked this one.

 

[JakeBrodskyPE]

Realistically, people attend a school, get a degree, and then start building a career. The career will morph and change over time. I could easily have gone into management, but I chose not to. Had I done so, I would not be working in a STEM field. So if StatGuy2000 had asked whether I was working on anything remotely related to my STEM major I'd have had to answer no.

We have to recognize that once you start building a career, your technical education may not always be the piece in use. I know one guy who got a STEM degree, went back for his MBA, and now is working at the executive level of the company. Is he a success? Hell yeah! And yet you can't tell from this survey whether he ended up at the executive level or whether he's running a coffee shop. No simple survey could tell you that and even if it could, it doesn't discuss the progression and how things came to be. Was it something in the education or was it the individual? Nature? Nurture? --Whatever.

This survey is probably just a curiosity itch that StatGuy2000 wanted to scratch. From here, perhaps we can figure out other questions to ask...

Good start, StatGuy!