Getting a degree? But that’s what started the problem in the first place!
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This is all corporate tech stuff anyhow. Inflating an already inflated market destined to be whittled down by AI is probably one of the most short term goals iv ever heard
Everyone: Learn how to code!
Corporate Masters: Who needs coders? We have AI.
when facing unemployment, the LAST thing I want to do is burn a shitload of money on the absolute fucking racket that is higher education in the USA.
Unless it's for something like HVAC or plumbing or nursing where there's never not a constant need, anyways
nursing you would still have to burn alot of money, but the demand is there for nursing, if you can tolerate PEOPLE and bodily wastes. you can make bank depending on what you do. if one has a degree, schools will consider it as post-bacc, so the classes are MUCH MORE expensive than if you were taken as a undergrad(they upcharge it for graduates and post baccs). one should not get a 2nd degree, since schools may allow you to do that, they called "academic incest". i had former co-worker in retail, he was already in the tech field, he was delusional into trying to get another degree to do with AI(and getting a ms eventually), i told them you should just find a job in tech(beginning of pandemic)
I wish we could just go back to schools being for people who want to learn about things, and putting employers back in charge of training their work force. Subsidizing a fucking intermediary to provide the basic ticket into the work force...who the fuck came up with that idea?
the problem is employers dont train employees anymore, so they look at "2+years experience required as a first start"
It's a stop gap, hoping for better times in the future. I did it when I had a physical disability no one could explain, so I couldn't get disability coverage much less any treatment. I ate some loans instead of living on the street or with abusive family. It sucked, but that's the US for you - if you're not making someone money, you're welcome to just go die.
Just when I thought I had read thee most dystopian shit. Here you go staving off homelessness with an unforgivable loan to an educational institution masquerading as a homeless shelter/bank. A shocking and appalling, yet all to common tale. Im hoping you have a positive outcome.
Thank you so much! This was over two decades ago. Everything turned out pretty a great. The abusive parent is dead, I have a wonderful partner, and we're parents to a big family of furry children. I do still have a six figure student loan, but it's pretty close to magically going away. Feels good!
P.s. I can't believe I can say "over two decades ago" and for that time to be when I was an adult. Fuck, I got old!
We don’t need any more MBAs.
I actually think we need more people who hate MBAs to go through the degree so we can tell whats bullshit and whats not.
We actively need fewer, a lot fewer
Who can afford that?!
Tech
This article seems to be exclusively about masters degrees or people going back to school for a second degree in a new field, but what I'm curious about is if there's been a similar spike in people going for their first degree. I'm trying to figure out how much of this is people trying to land a job in a recession and how much of it is people trying to make themselves appealing from an immigration perspective. There's definitely a lot of people who feel like getting out of the country is a nonstarter simply because countries only want the kind of labor that comes from obtaining a degree in a field.
it's the fact nobody will hire you for anything unless you have multiple degrees
i dont this applies to undergraduates. people with degrees cant find jobs in whatever field, because the job market is so poor, even before covid.
as an undergrad you would be eligible for grants, scholarships,,,etc with no cost to your own, depending if you are going to a state school, community college pipeline. going to a expensive college that isnt paid for in full would be pretty foolish, if your an older than the average college student.
I’m in that boat. Joined the IT world before the first .com crash, dropped out of school for it and never got a degree. I’m very stuck right now and I hate the career I’m stuck in. Trying to find a way to go back to get a degree, maybe open a door or two…
I'm doing similar from the same field. IT burned me tf out. And then lit the ashes. Already have a degree but I'm trying to change fields now. Don't want to even look at a server
I have run teams, and I’m an adult leader in my kids troop, so I’m hoping to get into IT leadership, also been an architect, but I just can’t get much response to my resumes for leadership without any education on there. I’ve been shut out several times during to lack of degree, so hoping it might open a door or two. I don’t think I can get away from IT yet, but maybe can change my role in it.
Where's the leisure society? We have all the resources we need, all the energy we need, and simply put, there just isn't all that much that needs doing that can keep everyone busy.
I've done that too many times already.
This isn't a news story, it's an advertorial.
Late 40s, highly skilled, trans, unemployed for 2+ years.
I've been down to the final candidate selection a few times now and still haven't been selected yet.
I've hired plenty of people. In general, final candidates are usually all fully capable of doing the job they're applying for. In the end, the hiring manager just gets to pick the one they want to work with most.
I feel like when hiring managers look at me, all they see are problems and risks. Time consuming HR meetings, extra effort making sure people use the right pronouns, judgements from executive leaders who might see a middle manager not doing a good job at leaning into where the winds are headed.
I wonder, even if I spend 3 more years on a secondary degree, whether I'll find myself right back in same situation (talented and surrounded by cowards unwilling to hire me), but now with $200k in new student loan debt.
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