00:00is studying a chemistry major to get a
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00:34is a chemistry degree worth it we're
00:36going to be talking about this today but
00:37first let's go ahead and define what a
00:40is so a chemistry degree is going to be
00:42the study of matter and all of its
00:44forms and how it transforms between one
00:46form or the other there's a lot of
00:48science of course but you're also going
00:49to be doing lab work as well as
00:51mathematics there's about 14
00:53000 people that graduate with a
00:54bachelor's in chemistry every year now
00:56i've said this before in a lot of other
00:58videos but i have to say in this one as
00:59well science degrees compared to the
01:01other stem degrees in my opinion are a
01:03little bit overrated
01:05a lot of people think that stem degrees
01:06are amazing and if you get any type of
01:08stem degree companies are just going to
01:09be lined up ready to give you a job
01:11right after you graduate
01:13and that's just not true the truth is if
01:15you get some science bachelor's degrees
01:17and you expect to get a job
01:18chances are you're gonna have to get a
01:19master's another one or a doctorate
01:22and another one and if you're gonna go
01:24on average about 40 000
01:26in debt in order to get your degree you
01:27can't just snap your fingers and make it
01:30now we're going to go over four
01:32different sections here the first one is
01:34going to be salary then we're going to
01:35talk about satisfaction
01:37then we're going to go over demand and
01:38then lastly we're going to talk about x
01:41first let's go ahead and talk about
01:43salary with a chemistry degree you would
01:44expect to make around 49
01:46000 a year in your first five years
01:48working and then mid-career pay would be
01:51000. you can compare this to petroleum
01:53engineering which is an extremely high
01:56or recreational therapy which doesn't
01:58pay very well and you're gonna see that
01:59it is somewhere in the middle but it's
02:01definitely above average when it comes
02:02to your salary now one career path you
02:04might go down is becoming a chemist of
02:06course and they make around 78
02:08000 a year now if you look at the median
02:10annual earnings for young people people
02:12between the ages of 25 and 29 for all
02:14different types of degrees
02:16you see that stem degrees tend to rank
02:18pretty well so not only do you make more
02:20money down the line but you also make
02:22right off the bat at the beginning of
02:24your career overall this one's pretty
02:25good when it comes to science degrees
02:27and above average when you compare it to
02:30so i'm going to give this one a 7 out of
02:3210 when it comes to salary or earnings
02:34next we're going to be talking about
02:36satisfaction and first we're going to go
02:38meaning which is how much your career
02:40positively affects the rest of the world
02:43so when it comes to meaning chemistry
02:46and you can compare that to radiation
02:49which is the highest and one of the
02:51lowest is plastics engineering
02:54so it's right there in the middle i
02:56would say it's slightly above average
02:58if you look at job satisfaction for
03:00something like materials scientists
03:01you'd see that it comes in at about 67
03:04which again is slightly above average as
03:07well now science degrees tend to be some
03:09of the most regretted degrees they're
03:10the second most regretted in fact at 35
03:13percent of the people who get their
03:14degrees regretting them according to zip
03:16and the reason for that is because a lot
03:18of people expect to be able to get a job
03:19with just a bachelor's and unfortunately
03:22for many types of careers out there when
03:24it comes to science you have to get a
03:25master's or a doctorate however
03:27chemistry is one of the better science
03:29degrees and overall i would say that
03:31science degrees when you're actually
03:33you do seem to be relatively satisfied
03:35with the career now this is extremely
03:37subjective like i said it depends on
03:39your personality it depends on the
03:40industry you work in
03:42what you're good at company that you
03:44work for in some cases
03:45however i'm going to go ahead and give
03:46this one a 7.5 out of 10.
03:49now when it comes to demand science
03:51related degrees are pretty average for
03:53the most part you can sometimes get a
03:55science related degree and then go into
03:57the health field but that of course is
03:58going to be extra schooling
04:00health-related degrees health-related
04:01careers have the highest demand out of
04:03any type of career out there even higher
04:05than technology but let's say you're
04:07just sticking with a bachelor's and
04:08you're trying to get a job with just a
04:09four-year degree so if you wanted to
04:11become a chemist that one's growing at
04:13about five percent over the next 10
04:15years and if you wanted to become a
04:16material scientist that one's growing at
04:18three percent which is about average
04:20now if you search monster.com for the
04:22keyword chemistry you're gonna see that
04:24only around 600 jobs pop
04:26up that means only 600 people had the
04:28keyword chemistry degree in their job
04:30listing compare that to computer science
04:34000 and anthropology which is around
04:35800. now it's not a perfect test by any
04:37means but it gives me a hint that not a
04:39lot of hiring managers or owners
04:41are looking for people who have a
04:42chemistry degree there's not an insane
04:44amount of demand out there like computer
04:46science for instance for people who have
04:48software development skills now that
04:49doesn't necessarily mean that you won't
04:51get hired with a chemistry degree
04:53but it is a little bit of a red flag so
04:55with this one i'm going to go ahead and
04:576.5 out of 10. next we're going to be
05:00x factors which encompasses everything
05:02else that we didn't talk about already
05:04so first when it comes to physical
05:06science degrees like chemistry they make
05:08around 2.6 million dollars over a
05:11which is more than the average degree
05:13which makes around 2.4 million
05:15on top of that you see that if they go
05:17into other career paths like
05:18management for instance they can make
05:20around 3.4 million over a lifetime
05:22i think the reason for this is because
05:24if you get a chemistry degree you're
05:26going to have a pretty strong background
05:29lab work and mathematics and although
05:31that might not directly
05:33translate to helping you get a job
05:35indirectly it's probably going to help
05:37you down the line there's a lot to say
05:39with some of the hard skills as well as
05:41some of the soft skills that you learned
05:43indirectly helping you throughout your
05:45entire life and it looks like physical
05:47science degrees are pretty good all
05:49across the board now when it comes to
05:50the skills that you learn chemistry as a
05:52skill is rated 56 out of 100 on
05:54ziprecruiter's skill index
05:56compare this to the highest rated skill
05:58of software engineering which is 88 out
06:01and the lowest rated which is industrial
06:03sewing at 8 out of 100 so it's going to
06:05be somewhere in the middle there so the
06:08is somewhat valued on the market that
06:11doesn't mean that it doesn't have more
06:12value or less value than anything else
06:14it simply means that people who own
06:16businesses and hiring managers
06:18are more likely to hire you and pay you
06:21if you have the skill of chemistry
06:23because for whatever reason it's pretty
06:25hot right now you know maybe a hundred
06:26years ago industrial sewing would have
06:28been the hottest skill around but
06:30unfortunately right now it's not really
06:31needed now when it comes to automation
06:33science degrees science careers in
06:35are relatively low and chemist is no
06:38different it only has around a 10
06:40chance of being automated and when it
06:41comes to difficulty the science-related
06:44degrees are pretty high up there in my
06:46opinion but they're probably not some of
06:48except for physics that one's really
06:50difficult i think engineering degrees
06:52and mathematics degrees realistically
06:54are probably going to be harder for the
06:56average person but again that's
06:57extremely subjective
06:59it could be completely different
07:00depending on who you are you know i took
07:02a lot of chemistry classes in undergrad
07:03organic chemistry is really difficult
07:05physical chemistry really difficult as
07:07well i'm sure some of those upper
07:08chemistry level classes get even harder
07:11but i don't think it's going to be as
07:12hard as something like
07:13engineering for what it's worth the
07:15reference i always use tab.com which
07:16kind of goes off of the dropout rate for
07:18the different majors
07:20says that chemistry is the third hardest
07:22one let me know down below if you're a
07:24chemistry major how difficult it was
07:26i mean i'm not trying to say that it's
07:27easy or anything by that by any means
07:29but i didn't remember thinking that it
07:32was one of the hardest majors but hey
07:34maybe i'm wrong but anyways when it
07:35comes to flexibility unfortunately this
07:38is where some of the science degrees
07:40kinda don't do so well
07:42for one out of all the different types
07:43of degrees science degrees
07:45kind of make the worst combination with
07:48so there's some types of degrees where
07:50if you double major in something else
07:52you know it might not be that great on
07:53its own but if you double major you can
07:55actually you know make it work with
07:56science related degrees i mean i guess
07:58it depends on what career path you're
07:59going down but double majoring in
08:01something else isn't going to help
08:02nearly as much and when it comes to
08:04flexibility they're honestly not that
08:06either a lot of the skills that you're
08:08going to learn are going to be
08:09relatively narrow they're not going to
08:12out to other things nearly as well as
08:14something like business for instance
08:15and so that makes the overall score
08:20this is one of these degrees where you
08:21can definitely make it work as long as
08:23you do your research you know what
08:24you're getting yourself
08:25into but it's not going to be one of
08:26those slam dunk degrees where you're
08:28pretty much set once you get a
08:30you're going to want to go above and
08:32beyond you're probably going to have to
08:33learn extra skills do internships and
08:36on top of that i always like to mention
08:38this because it's so important
08:40you should contact somebody who is in
08:42whatever career path you're interested
08:44and just ask them about what they would
08:46recommend that you do in fact you should
08:48contact a few people in each career path
08:51i've made entire videos about how to go
08:53through that whole process and you can
08:54check them out on my channel
08:55if you want some other help with degrees
08:57i did make a college degree ranker it's
08:59going to be in my patreon down below
09:02been working really hard on this and
09:03it's basically something that ranks
09:05different college degrees
09:06and it makes the whole research process
09:08for you much easier if you're one of
09:10these people that keeps commenting on my
09:11videos about how you want to see your
09:13sooner and you can't wait for it then
09:15just go ahead check it out
09:17do the patreon and you can see it and
09:19it's version 1.1 right now
09:21it's not done yet but it's a you know
09:23it's a work in progress but i think it's
09:26list out there i'm also going to be
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09:29stock portfolio for instance
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