This is definitely true...
And as you've seen me try to do math, you know it's equally true that I just can't do the M part of STEM, lol. ;) Technology I know nothing about, ditto engineering (I'm not very handy, anyway) and science...I liked biology, I wouldn't have minded trying that, but being realistic, you'd have to use math at some point in a Science-based career...and I suck at math and really and truly hate it (not just because I suck at it...it just seems like the most tedious and dehumanizing thing...on the other hand, there are people who are great at math who probably think Shakespeare really WAS written in Klingon, for all it makes sense to them.) :)
So whatever, I don't need or really want a great-paying job anyway...
Just one where I can rent an apartment in a place I'd want to live--LA County, New York state, maybe Maryland...anywhere with a major-major metropolitan area that's not Chicago, Seattle, or the South--and be able to pay for my medical treatments.
Really, that's enough...basic human amenities or whatever I either have or can buy cheaply, and then the thing I'd really want to do is write, anyway, so I'd just come home and write. I don't need to make a lot of money, just enough for a studio-two bedroom apt. in those metropolitan areas/the valleys adjacent to them (like here, you have LA, and then most of the San Fernando Valley is sort of like an Extended LA-esque type of area, I'm sure it's the same back East, with whatever geographical stand-in you have instead of a desert valley) so that's fine...
It's the moving out while IN college that's hard, because to get those jobs you need a Master's, and you can't pay for that AND an apartment in one of the more expensive areas in the country, and I go to school here, so I kind of have to live here while in school.