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Atmospheric and Oceanic science has been heavily defunded this year. A quarter of my program at NOAA has been laid off this year.
If I lost my science job, I was planning on going into tech. Now where do I go??? It feels like the walls are closing in.
I should have gone to a trade school instead :/ STEM was a bad choice.
unironically, just leave the US. plenty of countries/international research orgs are pouching all sorts of US-intelligencia right now.
Obviously you should try to consider all options, but the amount that this is happening is way exaggerated.
Europe in particularly is diverting a lot of funding away from public sector to defense spending due to geopolitical anxieties.
International organisations aren't safe either, because they rely on funding from the developed countries who are all cutting funding, i.e. US, Europe, etc.