>tfw your degree is useless and you're going to be unemployed/in

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>he fell for the uni meme

good fuckin goyim

>>34225934
>>tfw your degree is useless and you're going to be unemployed/in a meager 9-5 job for the rest of your life
You will never have to do manual labor or be homeless if you have a degree. You de-value it too much. Why don't you become an officer in the military and have full housing, full healthcare paid for making 70k a year? And have enlisted people stand up for you when you enter a room and suck up to you every chance they get

Yeah, If I could redo it, I'd just do manual labor and work and save up and invest.

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>>34225934
>he actually got an education

>>34225998
>Why don't you become an officer in the military and have full housing, full healthcare paid for making 70k a year?
Because it's the military

College is less about the degree and more about building connections/laying the groundwork for a career.

When I graduated last ear I had already been working for the past seven semesters, full time for the latest two of them, and had three job offers on the table ($19/hr as an Executive Assistant, $20/hr as an Admissions Coordinator, and $37,000 as a paralegal). None required a degree. A year later, I'm a paralegal making $42,000. Pretty soon I start law school and you can bet your ass I'll be a high performer, but focused a lot more on my career than the three years spent in school.

And let me be clear. There are people who do considerably better than I did, leaving making anywhere from $50-100K, but the main thing is having some position in mind/line while you take steps for the next.

The only purpose my degree will serve is when I'm getting into law school and I need to fill in the forms stating I did, in fact, obtain a BA.

>>34226221

So what you're saying is you didn't need college, just connections

>>34226221
>So what you're saying is you didn't need college, just connections
>>34226221
>College is less about the degree and more about building connections/laying the groundwork for a career
>The only purpose my degree will serve is when I'm getting into law school and I need to fill in the forms stating I did, in fact, obtain a BA.


You tell me, anon.

>>34226328

You didn't need it just the connection, which you could have gotten from HS friends

>>34226393
lol. Basically, except HS friends are a lot less connected.

>Go to school for journalism
>Work at student paper
>Become EiC
>Work local reporting jobs
>Have a job out of college as a general assignment reporter

It's literally about working hard

>>34226301

The degree was his stepping stone to greater things rather than mindlessly picking something and fumbling around for a few years.

why is getting a job so hard and scary bros

>>34226221
lucky you, my job experience in college led me nowhere

>>34226775because you have to lie and pretend like your happy to work for 50 hrs a week

how in the hell do people take useless degrees while being totally oblivious to the fact that they are useless?

>>34226930
>50 hour weeks

I'll take that. First year intern. Fucking 95 hours a week. Did 110 one week over Christmas

I'd honestly be happy with a meager 9-5 job.

I don't plan on getting married or having kids. As long as I get just enough to live by myself I'll be happy

why not just become a nurse, bros?

good pay, guaranteed job, robot friendly work hours (3 days a week for 12 hours). Perfect for night owls who want to work the night shifts. There is always a night shift job.

>>34226992
where the fuck are you interning at? a sweatshop?

jesus

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>>34227054
>why not just become a nurse, bros?
because I'm 26

>>34227054
>good pay
Pay's good where I'm from but apparently in the US and UK it's absolutely dire.

>robot friendly work hours (3 days a week for 12 hours
What kind of nurse are you? I assume you're not an RN. Most RN'S at my hospital are stuck on 50-60 hour weeks over 5-6 shifts.

>Perfect for night owls who want to work the night shift
Night shifts are comfy as everyone is asleep but you're always rotating.

>>34227106
First year doctor. Tbh I'd probably take the sweatshop at this point

>>34227176
RN is only 2-3 years these days. Nurses are always in short supply and that's only going to get worse in the future. Literally the most employable job atm

>>34227011
you're lying to yourself anon

>>34227176
I'm 27 and still getting a bs right now

>>34227223
do you have to be good at math?

>>34227176
so what? there are tons of you fucks in nursing programs. I specifically remember the 25 year old I partnered up with for group projects.

>>34227190
I live in Canada, so it's $30/hr starting.
3 days a week is pretty standard. I've mostly worked palliative care and general geriatrics over my career.

>>34227223
2-3 years? It's 3 years intensive if you have a previous degree and 4 years for everyone else here to become an RN.

>>34227275
I suck at math and got through med school, so I assume the same is for nursing. Basic dose calculations, perhaps a bit of biostats, nothing major.

guys life isnt a race

were not all equal

its ok if you dont have a hot wife and 3 kids or even just a gf

none of it matters in the end anyway, so if you do good, great, if not, keep trying.

just try to be happy and enjoy your life, and if you're perpetually unhappy, talk to someone about it and really try to figure out what it is that is bothering you.

thats it. life is that simple. don't over complicate it.

>>34227304
>I live in Canada, so it's $30/hr starting.
>3 days a week is pretty standard. I've mostly worked palliative care and general geriatrics over my career
About the same here in Aus. Aged care gets paid less though, RN'S make bank here.

>It's 3 years intensive if you have a previous degree and 4 years for everyone else here to become an RN
Three years intensive here for RN. Two if you have work experience in another area of nursing such as aged care. Includes placements.

>>34227054

I tried, my mom is one, makes well over $175k, but I hate old people, bodily fluids, and bleeding niggers

>>34227360
>makes well over $175k
h-how? is she a nurse practitioner? that still seems too high for an NP from my experience.

also, you get used to the bodily fluids and what not. it's not a big deal after a while, I used to be really disgusted by it but it doesn't even phase me anymore.

The whole process has also helped my social skills quite a bit. That's probably the best part of the job.

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>>34227345
THIS DESU YO NE

I can't decide if I want to go study film or painting. I love cinema and my whole family were painters so maybe I have some talent who knows. Never did it after childhood though. I want to create something artistic and meet those kind of people. And do lots of drugs with beautiful women to be honest

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>>34227345
>Life is simple, don't over complicate things
Wish I took this advice four years ago.

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>>34225934
>tfw worked my ass off in undergrad
>95% conposite percentile on the PCAT
>Literally did better than 95% of the normies that took the test
>Became a cyborg and impressed at every single admissions interview
>Got into every pharmacy school in my state
>Still no friends
>still khv
>still ugly
>pharmacy is becoming saturated as fuck and theres a good chance I'll be out on my ass with 150k of debt

Life isn't fucking fair. All chad had to do was major in business, now he has his own apartment in the city and is drowing in pussy

>>34227360
>makes well over $175k
Jesus, where do you live? Head RNs where I'm from get paid pretty damn well but that's something else. I know specialty RN's (burns units, onc, paeds, etc) get paid quite a bit more.

>>34227360
>but I hate old people, bodily fluids, and bleeding niggers
I used to as well. You get desensitised when you have to decompact about 5 asses a day during your first week though.

>>34227426

She's been there for 30 years+ she normally works 4 nights a week. I only found out when I helped them with their taxes. Combined they made $250k. All this time, I thought we were poor

>>34227345
It is so a race
I was born ugly, poor and isolated from people. You bet your fucking ass I'm gonna do everything in my power to not only live better than chad, but stomp on him (and stacy) in every single way.

>>34227495
>pharmacy is becoming saturated as fuck
Yeah it is, kind of a shame. If you double up your major with biochem, biomed eng, etc you're in a good place, but plain old pharm these days is really competitive.

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>>34227507
I'm generally bad at giving/receiving directions, socializing and performing in practical settings.
Can I still be a nurse or what?

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>>34225934
>tfw just got a job in my field of study after 2 internships
>won't have to sit in a shitty office 9-5, 5 days a week
>will get to be outdoors, in nature, active, and get paid for it
>community college saved thousands
>being over 25 allowed additional scholarsihps and grants
>went to a small local school and worked as I studied
>graduated with less than $10k debt
>probably the easiest STEM degree you could get

I feel like I won a jackpot. Even my job title sounds like a Chad job

>>34227426
>>34227507

The smell when I first walked in a retirement home turned me off forever. It got stuck under my nose and couldn't eat for a couple days, it was disgusting

>>34227537
I already got accepted anon
In 4 years I'll have a pharmD
Thats a professional degree, not undergrad like biochem etc.

>>34227562
What degree?
Oregontrail

It's honestly incredible the stupidity of some of my professors

And to think they have DOCTORATES and are getting paid HANDSOMELY

>>34227547
>I'm generally bad at giving/receiving directions, socializing
You'd probably struggle at it then. At least in my hospital we're like a big family. The people who don't make an effort to socialise (even in a small way) generally have to work a lot harder because they don't ask other people for help.

>performing in practical settings.
Probably a big problem to begin with but the work is so fucking repetitive, even when going into new wards. The first 1-2 weeks of a rotation is absolutely full on with so much information, the residual 6 months (or however long you stay there) is just autopilot because you do the same thing day in, day out, and if you ever get anything remotely unique and interesting you bet your ass everyone will want in on it out of curiosity.

>>34227602
Forestry. My job title will now be 'Timber Cruiser' starting Feb. 1.

Be a man and learn a trade ya pussy

>>34227723
so... yes then?
origngia

>>34227785
What's a trade that won't kill my body?

>>34227919

thats not how it works.

that is why its called a trade

you are TRADING your health for labor/compensation

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>>34227176
I'm also 26 anon and I just started a BA last year, I'll be lucky to finish by the time I'm 30 but having a degree will make my life feel less worthless

Hey man, you're still young. You can learn something like a trade. Not many people go into those anymore but they get good money for what they do. Plumbers, AC repair/installation guys and others are all good examples. You can pull through this man

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You people ought to do some research. The idea that a college degree is worthless, or not worth the debt is false. The wage premium on a college degree has never been higher. I think that there is a lot of reason to believe that the gap between those with a college degree and those without is going to widen in the next few decades.

>>34226992
Christ, what kind of internship were you doing? Analyst at a bank?

>>34228144
Even meme degrees?

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"engineering is in demand anon! You'll be sure to get a good job if you study hard. Dont work just focus on studying and take out loans to cover the cost."

>no internships wanted me
>therefor no jobs want me
>work shit retail jobs
>now a secretary
>going back to school for finance
>taking more loans

>>34227919
it doesn't matter what you do, your body will die. A trade will put it to work, toughen it, and eventually wear it out, while an office job will soften it, fatten it, and eventually wear out, probably around the same age, too.

>>34228514
No, white collar people don't have broken backs or broken bodies at 50

>>34228411
Lowest paying degree in 2016 was Early Childhood Education with median starting pay of around $30,000 and mid career pay of $38,000. That's slightly better than a high school diploma. Take the cost of the degree and net it against lifetime accrued earnings and I wouldn't say that it's conclusive that a very low paying degree is particularly worth it if you're only concerned about earnings.

So no, not meme degrees.

>>34228427
You screwed up. Don't expect a better experience with a degree in finance. I work in finance. Unless you want to sit in some back office doing data entry, the competition and cutthroat culture will be way worse than engineering. Just because you have an in demand degree doesn't mean you won't have to work extremely hard applying for dozens or hundreds of jobs over the course of months. The first job is always extremely unpleasant to land no matter what.

>>34225934
>degree has relatively high employment rate with decent salary
>simply too autistic to survive an interview
lol

>Fell for the CS meme degree
>Literally $100k, starting after graduation

What?

>>34228660
Well you just made me feel a lot better about my education

thank you anon

>>34225954
I sure did and now I have a fucking sleep disorder and feel worse than ever.

I'm so lost anon

>>34228733

I'm pretty good during interviews, it's the repetition of daily work life that kills me and eventually shows my autism

>tfw you have a job you don't really deserve
>no degree and making 80k off connections from previous job alone

feels guilty man

i hope to run my own business one day

>>34225934
We are all slaves.

Welp, the computer engineering degree i'm doing is 4 years long, but it is equivalent to the old 6 year career (only they compressed it, but the subjects and knowledge learned is the same).
But it will only count as a standard degree in my curriculum.

>>34226992
You expect me to believe you worked 15 hours a day for a week

>>34229624
Not unheard of in some fields. 80 hours per week is pretty standard for first/second year analysts in finance. I know that lawyers face similar hours at the start of their careers. Doctors in residency often put in 30 hour shifts.

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>>34227461
If you study the arts, but especially painting, be prepared to work your fucking ass off
Nobody needs painters, it's a luxury product
If you go to school for painting be prepared to sign up for extra stuff, to get friendly with professors and gallery/publishing people, to spend all of your free time and money working on your projects to compete with the True Artists
I studied art. I never did any internships, earned my money by working at the dining hall... at first I rebelled at the idea that your life needs to be centered around making art, I didn't want to drop my other hobbies and was fascinated by socializing...
Now that I realize I just don't seem to have the endurance, I always spend part of my day relaxing instead of working from the time I wake to when I go asleep
The programs and whatnot were told to the nerds who hung around the professor kissing their asses..I was irritated by my liberal hipster classmates and wanted to go in, do my shit and leave...they'd talk of coming in early and staying late cause they were just so excited about art and I'd think, "fuck that"
But now I don't know where to begin even looking for some kind of job involved in artistic things
I learned how to draw a lot better and compose a more compelling image, how to work with certain materials but I didn't learn as much as I could have about computers
Now I sketch on my breaks working at the gas station to remind myself there's more to me, and working on an ink drawing, but that's taken me the better part of a year to get going and it needs another layer of complexity. I'm so stuck I think I really might not just be lacking in endurance, but not smart enough for more
It's the only thing I can see myself caring about though
You have to make it your life's mission man
The faggy elitist climate really sucked
But the fact that I was an immature lazy mentally unstable drunken drug addict wannabe hippy/punk was what really caused my lack of success

>>34228553
No they have big guts underneath which they can't see their dicks

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>He thinks a high school diploma is all he needs to be successful in life

>>34230570
just a bit of hard work and elbow grease :^)

>>34226435
there's not enough of those jobs for everyone who graduates

it's a road paved with thorns that may not work out in the end

>>34229750
Idk how people can do that where do they find the time not to sleep, but even bathe and shit

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>>34225934
>tfw drowning in debt

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>>34231456
>friend got bachelor's degree
>decided to go after master's right afterward's
>couldn't find a job after getting it so he'll have an easier time paying debts later
>never found one
>he bums with me now and has crushing debt
>the crack whores who also stay with me have even more money than him
>mfw he told me it's time he thought about getting a PhD

>>34231596
Meant to say
>decided to go after master's right afterward's so he'll have an easier time paying debts later

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>>34231596
He has no job at all, not even retailcucking?
Shit anybody can do that at least

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>>34231596
Also tell us more about this trap house you run and the crack whores you let stay with you

>>34231680
He says people think he's overqualified but given how many people his age I see in retail stores, I think he's just looking for an excuse not to work retail, especially since I've tried really hard to set him up with some jobs in a few stores.

That or he's really bad with negotiating since I've heard him tell a Walmart employer that he hoped to start at $15/hr in a state with $7.65 minimum wage.

>>34231701
My old neighbor was a drug dealer and I used to hang out with him a lot. When he was arrested for parole violation, the women (drugees and deadbeat mothers) who followed him around started hanging around my house instead. I let them stay with me for periods of time in exchange for free shit.

>>34231883
Interesting. Is this your harem
Are you concerned that these people will bring their problems with them to your house and attract heat

>>34232573
>Is this your harem
No, most of them already have boyfriends or husbands but who are in jail or something. There was one who would give me sucky-sucky for money but she's gone now.

>Are you concerned that these people will bring their problems with them to your house and attract heat
The police have shown up to my house before and only to see if I know where 'x' might be at. That's it.

>>34232822
Id like to hear some stories of your slum lord life if you've got the time

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>>34232916
Seems off topic for the thread, but is there something specific you want to know?

The only thing of recent interest is that one of the girls--this one that calls me her brother in cringe fashion because I think she has issues--had surgery on her pussy because of an ingrown hair or something. I don't know how she afforded surgery but she was asleep for easily 24 hours straight last week and scared the hell out of me when she finally woke up moaning. She ended up giving me pain pills and McDonalds in return a few days afterward.

>>34233112
Nothing specific, general oddities of living a life with people of the underworld
It calls to mind 19th century opium dens, the house in fight club, punk squatters, stories of that nature

>>34233218
Well, I have two permanent residents living with me-the friend with the master's degree I mentioned earlier and this one middle-aged woman whose husband is serving long-ass sentence. The latter is the only one who pays me rent in cash though.

Besides that, there's usually a bunch of women who come and go to bum on my couch. Sometimes their guy friends will stay too but it's pretty rare for a reason I don't know. A couple of times a week they usually gather and invite some other people to do drugs in my house (mostly crack and weed). I don't do drugs myself but the payoff is they give me free stuff, like this one woman who gave me $3,000 worth of gas masks that were given away to her from a military friend because of a surplus. Most of the time though, they give me free electronics, which I honestly think are stolen.

It's really cool to see the walks of life they come form though. One was a stripper that doesn't come around much since she got pissed when I ask jokingly asked what her stage name was. Another was a tattoo artist who's offering to give me free ink, one was a retail employee, and a lot of them are just jobless who either leech off others, work as literal whores, or live off welfare.