This is why I'm glad I dropped out and worked for a bit. I dropped out of college due to a nasty conflict of "Go to school or get the fuck out" while having a severly low self-esteem. I knew I wasn't interested in school enough to follow through. Got into Job Corp trade school for auto repair and found out a harsh lesson that comes straight from Aesop. No one gives a shit if you have completed every course. If you're not confident, competent or even remotely show those bits while working on a customer's car, then you're wasting yours and our time if the thousands they spend is gonna potentially be a slack job and just return to the shop (Even though maintenence never usually happens in one fell swoop) or lose your car forever/rake the cost of maintenence higher for the lifetime. That's when I got in touch with a mind numbing, monotonous job to finally come to terms where I really want to be. No where near a punch card like the rest of you drones, or at least any bit where everything becomes physically numbed and zoning out is no longer just a bit of being disgruntled.

P.S. see you suckers, I'm going back to college!

Wow, complete with a "further reading" list.

Shut up and take my stars.

Well said.

Having finished my undergrad and realizing the dot-com bubble was about to burst, the best thing I did was to go into grad school to wait it out a bit. By the next term all the people whose jobs had vanished in a puff of options were clawing at the door to get in, while I had a relatively easy time getting in since everyone was running to the coast for jobs at startups.

And yeah, programs were full of people who were learning to program for the bucks, and I even met some of them at my later job. The term for them quickly became "ex-employees", because they never really had the aptitude for it.

Addendum: As a person with basically a second major in psyc, this guy must have missed the rather crucial psyc 101 lecture that I thought was standard - the one where they told everyone that unless you had a grad degree in psyc, you were not going to get a job with it. A masters might let you work with military and prisoners, but nothing short of a PhD is going to get you legit psyc work.

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Also, I finally got a job that pays me a living wage but I had to leave America to do it. Now I'm just wondering if I can ever find a job in America that doesn't involve fast food. I'm wondering if it will be feasible for me to come back. If my overseas experience will even mean anything to anyone.

Also, there are a million articles on Yahoo on job advice and how to choose the right career and degree and do all the things employers want in order to shape you into just the right peg wedged into a cold, merciless hole by the hammer of the job market, but there isn't one list on how to overthrow the people running our country and destroying the power banks and corporations have over the government, which I find odd!

This kid's big mistake is in talking about money. You really shouldn't get into medicine of any kind just to make money. He could get into social work very easily, and those jobs are extremely stressful, and they don't pay much, but there are lots of them out there. The kid's problem is with his character, not his degree.

As you were jotting down those studies thousands of college kids whined about having to cite sources

that sounds scary, yo. One of my undergraduate students is going through a similar thing, possible brain tumor.

That's fine if you are getting money from your parents or a trust fund or you have a nice savings, or a big loan or fellowship, or lots of credit.

Most people have to work an internship and have a job at the same time. The power brokers in any given industry are more likely to give an internship to someone who will work 40-50 hours a week (or more, like I did when I worked in TV/film, because I had money at the time) for pennies than to someone who will work 20 hours a week while having a part or full time job on the side.

And hence the class struggle continues, only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.