Unless it's for STEM, undergrad is pointless. The best thing you can do is to network and make connections to land a job. When I'm interviewing candidates for my staff, I give no fucks where your degree was from. I care about your work experience and if you can answer basic interview questions with actual answers.
Pretty much. Mine was engineering and even then it bought me a checkbox on a resume. My first interview way back was much more about my work experience concurrent to college than about my degree.
Just from my own observations, I feel like I'm starting to see less interest in college from people around that age. The bad thing is it's just replaced with laziness. They've been so brainwashed that they are supposed to follow their passions and dreams that when they realize it doesn't make sense they just become leeches.
A lot of students have ideas of what they want to do, but no reality.
My sister got a psych degree because she thought she wanted to be a therapist. She never volunteered at a mental health clinic or as a counselor. Unsurprisingly, she realized she didn't actually want this career, but managed to segue into a grad degree in I/O psychology and got into high level HR and is making good money now.
My cousin was the opposite. He loved mechanical stuff as a kid, always tinkering and building stuff. He ran the robotics team, got into drones and R/C. Loves flight sims. He knew exactly what he wanted to do and got a degree in aerospace engineering. Landed an internship at Lockheed and converted it to a full time position.
Most people going to college should be like my cousin, but are like my sister, except instead of finding a productive option, they become leeches, like you said. Although, it's worse than leeches since they start acting out of spite to overthrow society. Instead of burning down a Starbucks that provides jobs for low-skilled individuals, they should be beating up the teachers that failed them. Very few of our teachers are setting up kids for a realistic path in life with realistic expectations. One of my friends is a high school teacher and he's trying to set kids on the right path. He always suggests skilled trades for kids that he sees clearly can't compete in our modern "academic" environment.
Right, I was trying to convey that an undergrad degree isn't really a stopping point anymore beyond STEM. Those professions don't flaunt an undergrad degree since it's just a prerequisite unless you are doing very low-level work in that field (paralegal, tax prep, etc).
Unless it's for STEM, undergrad is pointless. The best thing you can do is to network and make connections to land a job. When I'm interviewing candidates for my staff, I give no fucks where your degree was from. I care about your work experience and if you can answer basic interview questions with actual answers.
Pretty much. Mine was engineering and even then it bought me a checkbox on a resume. My first interview way back was much more about my work experience concurrent to college than about my degree.
Just from my own observations, I feel like I'm starting to see less interest in college from people around that age. The bad thing is it's just replaced with laziness. They've been so brainwashed that they are supposed to follow their passions and dreams that when they realize it doesn't make sense they just become leeches.
A lot of students have ideas of what they want to do, but no reality.
My sister got a psych degree because she thought she wanted to be a therapist. She never volunteered at a mental health clinic or as a counselor. Unsurprisingly, she realized she didn't actually want this career, but managed to segue into a grad degree in I/O psychology and got into high level HR and is making good money now.
My cousin was the opposite. He loved mechanical stuff as a kid, always tinkering and building stuff. He ran the robotics team, got into drones and R/C. Loves flight sims. He knew exactly what he wanted to do and got a degree in aerospace engineering. Landed an internship at Lockheed and converted it to a full time position.
Most people going to college should be like my cousin, but are like my sister, except instead of finding a productive option, they become leeches, like you said. Although, it's worse than leeches since they start acting out of spite to overthrow society. Instead of burning down a Starbucks that provides jobs for low-skilled individuals, they should be beating up the teachers that failed them. Very few of our teachers are setting up kids for a realistic path in life with realistic expectations. One of my friends is a high school teacher and he's trying to set kids on the right path. He always suggests skilled trades for kids that he sees clearly can't compete in our modern "academic" environment.
Right, I was trying to convey that an undergrad degree isn't really a stopping point anymore beyond STEM. Those professions don't flaunt an undergrad degree since it's just a prerequisite unless you are doing very low-level work in that field (paralegal, tax prep, etc).