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Me @37: I’m tired of my high paid IT work, imma quit and get a PhD in plant genetics…
Me @42: fuck
Me @22: Boy, IT work sure looks fun and I love computers already so let me take out some student loans to become a cybersecurity specialist!
Me @29: Retail is fine too.
Getting a degree to work in IT seems weird to me, but I was admining before IT classes existed
We’re from a different era my dude. These days it’s all analysts, architects and data scientist.
Who can’t do jack shit without guys like you.
Same. Sometimes I wish I had instead spent all the money I saved and blew on college on anything else. I could have lost it all gambling. I could have spent it all on strippers. Or drugs. I could have bought a helicopter and thrown fistfulls of $100 bills out the window and my money would have still been better spent.
Sitting on 18k in debt. I’d actually have a car instead of half a degree and a thumbs up from ECPI. Casino would be good too.
Yet they blame all the violence on marijuana… What do they expect people in this situation to do, die? Fuck our broken society.
If they aren’t going to make college classes less bullshit they least the could do is make them free. Whether I pass a class or not has always depended more on how reasonable they want to be about it.
If you’re paying $100k just to be allowed to get a job, you should be entitled to that or a full refund regardless of anything else. Fuck everyone in charge of this joke of a society.
My entire 20s and 30s.
Me currently starting my 30s.
The 2008 crash I got a job at a call center and was working next to a person with PhD making $10/hr.
That was basically my dad, but at the meat counter at the local grocery. :(
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Yep he had a kid to feed couldn’t just sit on his pride and wait for a job in his field to materialize. So he worked that while continuing to look which did take a while.
Yeah, I learned my lesson after completing my master’s.
It’s all a scam based on pre-existing connections with the right socio-economic circles. I won’t be here to see it, but hopefully the next iteration of human society will be less regressive.
Is master’s degree common in the West?
Bachelor’s degree is much more common where I’m from. After that people are usually keen to get a job and start earning.
It’s almost impossible to find a job as a graduate even with a master’s degree. The industry has gone to shit.
It’s becoming far more common, yes. I’m not really sure what all of these people are doing with master’s degrees nowadays. But at least in the US, a master’s degree seems to be the new bachelor’s degree. Higher education is all a racket.
Granted, I do say this as someone with a master’s degree. My master’s degree actually was incredibly useful to me though and not something pointless like underwater basket weaving. Mine helped me make a healthy wage (at the expense of student loan debt, but it all works out).
What’s wrong with underwater basket weaving?
Nothing as a hobby. Good luck making a good amount money off of it though.
It’s definitely somewhat common. Teachers in my state generally get one as part of the certification process. Management, especially middle or upper level can have an MBA. Some student athletes get them depending on how their scholarship eligibility works out. There was also a surge of masters degrees in the 08 recession, due to people avoiding the bad job market.
My coworkers laugh at me because I want a PhD so I can have the title of Dr. They think it’s ridiculous. Now I HAVE to get a PhD. The hunt for suitable and affordable master’s programs is tough. 💀
When you realize the world isn’t worth saving due to 10% of the populace controlling the fate of the other 90%
Me @27 IT is boring and the wages suck, I lack human empathy so I’ll try Defense Contracting
Me @36 Well the money is great, but the risk of Engineers spilling national security secrets every day is stressful AF.
It’s easy, just pre-emptively fire any engineers who play world of tanks or war thunder.
I actually have a multiple choice question on my General User training that goes something like:
If someone attempts to elicit classified information from you, and a heated argument erupts, what action should you take?
A) Inform Company Security of the event
B) Provide a non-answer and defer or distract from the current line of questioning
C) Prove them wrong by giving them the classified information
D) A & B
So far no one has chosen C, thankfully.
This is a large driving force behind my ever developing depression
