My nigger, I literally got a Psychology degree (miles below your STEM one in value and over-supply) and applied it to help me get multiple jobs over the years in completely unrelated fields.
And if in your entire degree all you learned was things that can only be used in that one specific field with no lateral applicability (or worse only studied to pass the tests), that's more on you than the job market.
Shit half the point of going to college is to network with people around you, many of them going into the same industry because you share a shit ton of classes over years.
The degree itself is the least useful thing they give you. Those are toilet paper because its often the bare minimum for any job related to it.
Hard disagree on the utility of a psychology degree. I do agree that the degree is the least useful thing they give you. Internships are way more important. More important than grades.
It has great utility, that's why I was able to make great use of it. But none of that was in anything remotely resembling the Psychology field because those jobs have 1000 applicants a day, even at PhD (or PsyD) level.
Even my Practicum wasn't in Psychology itself*, I volunteered with the local big brother type org for a year and gained considerable skills with children instead.
The classes aren't teaching you to pass the test, its supposed to be teaching you valuable skills that the test is making sure of. But so many STEM people just expect their degree to land them an instant job and forget all that.
*The largest supplier of positions for this was the local women's shelter, of which my professor forbid me from going to. In case anyone thought my misogyny wasn't limited to online.
There are a lot of reasons why I shouldn't have been there, most of them valid even if Righting Injustice should be done. But we all accepted it with a laugh and I got to help a lot of lost boys get somewhat back on the path instead.
My nigger, I literally got a Psychology degree (miles below your STEM one in value and over-supply) and applied it to help me get multiple jobs over the years in completely unrelated fields.
And if in your entire degree all you learned was things that can only be used in that one specific field with no lateral applicability (or worse only studied to pass the tests), that's more on you than the job market.
Shit half the point of going to college is to network with people around you, many of them going into the same industry because you share a shit ton of classes over years.
The degree itself is the least useful thing they give you. Those are toilet paper because its often the bare minimum for any job related to it.
Hard disagree on the utility of a psychology degree. I do agree that the degree is the least useful thing they give you. Internships are way more important. More important than grades.
It has great utility, that's why I was able to make great use of it. But none of that was in anything remotely resembling the Psychology field because those jobs have 1000 applicants a day, even at PhD (or PsyD) level.
Even my Practicum wasn't in Psychology itself*, I volunteered with the local big brother type org for a year and gained considerable skills with children instead.
The classes aren't teaching you to pass the test, its supposed to be teaching you valuable skills that the test is making sure of. But so many STEM people just expect their degree to land them an instant job and forget all that.
*The largest supplier of positions for this was the local women's shelter, of which my professor forbid me from going to. In case anyone thought my misogyny wasn't limited to online.
That's because you'd probably call them out for allowing abusers into the shelters to avoid accountability.
There are a lot of reasons why I shouldn't have been there, most of them valid even if Righting Injustice should be done. But we all accepted it with a laugh and I got to help a lot of lost boys get somewhat back on the path instead.