Worthless degrees

Well, I am actually planning to go back to school to become a librarian. It's a comfy well-paying job. If you have a B.A. in Interactive Media, then why don't you do some graphic design yourself? I started out doing what I do as a hobby, and then progressed into the position I'm in now. But my degree made all the difference in the hiring process.

>be me
>self-taught programmer
>no formal education or boot camp
>started out charging $40 an hour to write macros for Excel spreadsheets
>continued to self-educate, learned Ruby on Rails
>got a full time job
>6 years later, i'm now earning a $135,000 salary while working remotely
>invest in rental properties for fun

Get your shit together user. Companies are falling over themselves to hire programmers and they're paying absurd amounts of money for Javascript code monkeys. You're missing out on one of the biggest wagie goldrushes of all time.

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It's insanely competitive unfortunately. Building up my portfolio on the weekends, but the students loan have to be paid somehow in the meantime.

"I'm proud that I literally paid $50,000 to get my job"

Should I learn Python first? All I know is basic html

i paid $40k to get my job, which now pays me $200k/yr. bretty good deal i'd say.

B.A in "Media Professional Studies". The course doesnt even exist anymore, its now called Media Production. I was such a fucking bluepilled normie back then and the degree was absolutely useless in getting me any work. After I graduated I remember applying to hundreds of jobs and the closest I got was the interview stage of a 2 week unpaid internship. Kek. I even did some retarded "World of Work" programme that was shilled to us by our lecturer after I finished uni, and that was also completely useless. But I was a fucking retard for just taking it for granted that a degree would get me a job, and I had no guidance from my naive parents. It's sad they still have a photo of me in my graduation cap & gown in their house, like my degree actually had any value or did anything other than put me thousands of pounds in debt.

>B.A. in Interactive Media
did you study video games as a humanities subject?

Philosophy
Literally doesn't mean shit, ''''soft skills'''' are the only thing that matter. What that means is be half competent and not the kind of person that posts on japanese picture boards

Im getting one in Digital Forensics, dont know If it will do anything but I just wanted a piece of paper.

How fucked am I?

how did you get people to pay you $40/h for vba? Very good at it myself.

Depends on how much debt you put yourself in, how employable you are generally and if you've got connections with or without university that can put you anywhere decent.

I have a BA in Economics I need a job pls help can someone give me a job thx

Im going to have no debt and im probably employable, ive held a job for 5 years atleast. I have 0 connections though

They are all worthless except medschool. Companies dont even want degrees anymore because degree only means you are good at doing mindless boring tasks on time like a good cuck

cnbc.com/2018/08/16/15-companies-that-no-longer-require-employees-to-have-a-college-degree.html

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BA economics here. Our job is to either spout bullshit or flip burgers.

my mom said if i didn't go to college, i wouldn't get my share of her inheritance when she dies. so I got a BA in liberal arts and work as a porter at a GMC dealership. present sucks but the future is looking good.

>chasing inheritance
kys worthless slime

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
i went to college, i have a job, don't live with her, good son.... what more do you want??

Jokes on you, I had a full scholarship.

This. I have a MA in International Relations, my goal was always to work for the department of state I took the FSOT twice and both times aced every test but then I had to sit with the HR normies and they instantly smelled my autism and turned me down..

Bachelors in architecture
The education i got in it is really good and it's an interesting field but its completely useless in the real life job market.
The only way i can see myself working in the field is if i specialize in a niche like parametric modeling or getting extremely lucky

I'll be finished in 6months and my future looks bleak.
I'm going to do a masters in building management so i have more options

Every single degree that doesn't give you job definition. Lawyer, Accountant,Pharmacist,Dentist, Veterinarian Doctor, Engineer, Scientist, porn star.

BS in Accounting
Masters in Tax

Work in Big 4 tax and it sucks.

Doctor of Dental Surgery

Feelsgoodman

how to get a job spouting bullshit?

You can leave for a normal job once you have a few years of Big 4 on your resume. The work will still be boring but the hours should be more reasonable

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Wagecuck at any financial institution in a client facing role

>fell for the trade school meme(instrumentation & controls)
>make only $25/hr meanwhile the average university grad is making 80-100k starting and get stock options and every second friday off

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You're absolutely wrong. Architects are needed in homebuilding/home improvement industry (if you are willing to relocate). There is always a city that needs people to build custom homes, or hire an architect to remodel. These guys get paid big money.

My 42 y/o uncle is a general contractor that works on custom homes, and makes seven figures. He's been working in home construction since 16 though, but he was already making six figures in his 20s.

Dude is rich as fuck. All he does nowadays is paperwork, talking to clients, and architectural drafting. He has supervisors on all his construction sites and only checks on them like once a week to make sure things are going according to schedule.

You might think that you need a lot of money to do this, but the truth is you're just a middleman to your employees and other subcontractors. You act as an architect/designer/builder depending on the job, and pass along checks from the homeowner to your employees, and subcontractors.

It's the easiest money in the world, because people in construction are really bad with finance, regulations, and generally don't have good presentation and people skills.

I'm finishing up my Civil Engineering degree and will be working with my uncle full time when I graduate. Won't have to lift a board, and will be making six figures, although I'll have to be putting in 60+ hours a week.

BA in Philosophy

Work as an accountant now. Like said, it is fucking shit, The most wageslave Fresco cuck job you could ever imagine. I want to die every day - the degree just helps putting me deeper into an existential pit of despair than if I went in as an NPC.

BS Biochem was a chemist, now working starter position in finance

Sociology and German.

I got a decent job as a copy editor and now work as QA analyst for software after transferring within my company making $25 an hour. Not great, but your degree doesn't have to fuck you, it's what you do with it and what other skills you learn along side it. 95% of the people who graduated with me who also majored in philosophy and shit are making more than me. Being poor because you didn't major in STEM is a meme and an excuse.

>26 year old boomer
>B.A. in Psych
>unrelated job- quality tech in manufacturing
>stressful and mentally demanding
>$50k

>BA computer science
F U C K

My education was fucking useless. On the bright side
>free ride scholarship
I work in a medical field now and it barely required any credentials.

but you probably wouldn't have been considered without a degree? It's a shitty system that education and career skills are so out of alignment, but a degree is the ticket you need to get jobs that put you in the middle class in the vast majority of fields.

My job technically doesn't need a degree just a few quals and clean background. It's in a hospital.

I live in germany but you are right the construction industry is really good in some countries and relocation is an option.
People don't build that many buildings here anymore, its mostly renovations or big building constructions people don't build that many single family houses here.
I'm happy for you that you have a chance to work with your uncle and it sounds like the kind of thing i'd want to do as well but i don't really understand it. Probably because my english isn't the best.

He gets contracts for constructing something and then outsources the job to other companies but still does the drafting and stuff?
Can you explain his business further?

holy shit, what a wasted life. you're just waiting around for your mom to die now cause you can't get your shit together?

I got y'all beat.

Associate degree in Applied Sciences in Telecommunications Management from DeVry.

BA Studio Art
$20/hr Graphic Designer

>Get a load of this guy
I see an hero in your future

>Community college dropout
>Photovoltaic Project Designer

Kinda feels mixed, I'm fucked if the industry ever tanks but at the same time never had any student loan debt or bullshit marxism indoctrination

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>PhD in math
>any job i want
>300k a year starting salary

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His got an old meme Sir but it checks out.

Where did you land the job?

Where you saw the job offer?

based and redpilled.

>no degree
>making 60k
>no debt besides car payment

Damn I have it kind of good I guess. My wife wants me to go back to school though.

>Chemical engineering
Pay isnt terrible but it's definitely not worth it.
>mfw all oldtimer engineering fields are extremely saturated with 100iq normies
>mfw it doesnt really matter because advances in software has made it easy enough for normies to follow

I'm going into programming. People say CS is a meme but it's way more meritocratic than engineering is right now. At least my degree was free.

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>that article
>starbucks
>publix
>nordstrom
>lowes
yes, unskilled retail positions dont in fact require a degree

will your uncle hire ?

These days people do meme degrees (even Master's) because they are easier to get a 4.0 degree and to eventually apply to Grad school (Medicine, Law, etc).

24 and opted out on college and here I am feeling like a poorfag at $22/hr 50 hrs/week

BA statistics here, pretty useless without masters

BLA in Economics

freelance paralegal, work from home for $50/hr

bachelor of games and interactive entertainment. Every day I wake up and regret that stupid, useless waste of time I could have spent teaching myself valuable skills for free. I challenge anyone here to prove that their degree was more useless but I doubt you'll succeed.

I did a double major, philosophy was one - it does help you think critically. That said, you need to do grad school after. I’m now a teacher, comfy being a teacher in Canada.

How do I get into this as a BS in Econ?

idk, i was chillin out on upwork doing some side stuff as a junior in (online) college. some lawyer was having a crisis and i showed up and helped fix it and she basically put me in charge of her immigration practice. now my two main jobs are:

- i do pic related
- i help a nonprofit on the side for 40/hr getting people early parole hearings who were sentenced under the California three strikes law

im graduating fall next year and i think im gonna go to law school

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Never heard of this site. I just graduated in May and right now I'm working a temp job at Bloomberg for like $17 an hour. I took the LSAT last month and got a 167, but I don't think I'm going to apply for schools until 2019-2020 cycle so that I can get some more experience and maybe take it again. Is this a good place to find paralegal type shit? $40/hr is more than double what I'm making now that would be awesome

I also have a BA Statistics. Pretty much your best bet is Data Analyst route. Learn SQL. Work for a company that pays for your M.A. then get that and become a Data Scientist. I'm doing this now

>psych degree
>communications degree
>adult counseling minor
work at a bar as a server, slowly becoming an alcoholic

nice, now you can communicate to your counselor the pitiful state your psyche is in.lmao JUST

idk, most people there are insane pro ses or asshole small businesses. i just got lucky having these jobs basically fall into my lap.

also, upwork is a scam and will:
-take 20-10% of your money and a significant percentage of your client's
-make you track hours painstakingly and to the minute, as opposed to the 0.1 hour (6 minute increment) i do with my clients

so i just use it to be invited to jobs by boomers, who i take into a dark alley and convince to do it the old fashioned way and i invoice them directly and never look at upwork again. it's against the tos but the tos is probably illegal anyway so whatever

keep in mind that you actually have to have some idea of what you are doing. i'm lucky because i sued a bunch of people pro se the last couple of years and made $135,000, learned how to read the law and apply it, was an illegal immigrant with no social security number so i got really into immigration law, etc.

B.S. Biology/Physics dual major.
- Never used them out of college.

MBA from Haas - Never used but did go to the networking events. It's more about working at a firm than being a manger...

Got lucky in crypto and not working currently. I will eventually need to make more though. I'm about 670,000$ after paying huge taxes, so obviously won't last forever unless I'm stupid frugal. Also got a house valued 230k$, and no debt.

Yeye call me a cuck but how I was making money was surreal. I'm from WA so living in a cheap area in a small 2bd house. My college was free expect bio degree because military benefits. I did bio before the Army. I really don't want to become a wagecuck... disliked the military enough, couldn't imagine being treated like dogshit by a civilian.

Degree isn't my problem really, though it would be nice if it was worth more. Real problem is nobody in their right mind would promote me based on any interview ever.

Start a business and treat other people like shit instead

how does it feel being a worthless leech? I honestly can't think of a more scummy sounding faggot. Unless of course you're a white European immigrant then fine whatever

Ah okay, so it's not exactly a resources for entry-level type stuff. Seems like a good place to make some beer money though.

First degree was in econ but couldn't find a job and ended up working construction. Then I went back to school for nursing and work in a drug rehab making $30/hour and as a charge nurse in a nursing home making $31.

>16hrs a day
>5 days a week
Shit sucks but I live in a very cheap part of the country were you can live off of $20/hour easily so I'm saving a lot of money.

Why not invest in renting out apartments to hipsters in WA? They'll happily buy shitboxes near negro infested areas and even make the place nicer for you off of their meager barista wages.

Pursuing a PhD in microbio. Realizing that financially this is a shit idea (even if I get a $30k a year stipend + tuition waver) since after all the effort I put in, I'll still only probably make ~$80k a year

That's insane, how are you not burnt out? You must have a very strong goal for the future to stick by that routine.

it really depends! to be honest, i think you can bullshit your way into understanding and doing any job if you have the basic skillset and intelligence to be able to improve on yourself and some basic charisma, sense of humor, etc. there are the occasional windfalls, but you can really get a decent income off that kind of work once you find a few people who are confident in you to get things done.

just wait until i tell you i'm a brown asian trans lesbian who married a millionaire 16 year old girl who pays her rent! dabbing on wagecucks epic style

I was repulsed in the process of making a business. Figured I could find someone with the same vision, but all MBAs seem to want is money. Most of them don't even want to be an executive manager, they just want to work in private equity. The few MBAs that did want management were already so connected that they were being groomed by their wealthy family to take on the family business. I could probably walk on as a store manager with easy access to district/regional but they're wagies that just get paid a lot, and work well over 40hr/week.

>majored in accounting
>minor in CS
>had a few interviews for after grad, no job offers yet
Am I a meme?

I have an associates' degree in Culinary Arts and work at a dogshit nursing home in the kitchen. The job sucks but they pay me well, and I invest a shit-ton of my wages instead of wasting it on unimportant bullshit. In five years I should have a good amount of capital invested.

Thinking of starting a side business, but not interested in a restaurant or cafe or anything like that. Too much stress. Something to think about for the future.

Well the rehab job is pretty easy, I just hand out medications, guide little discussion groups and fill out documentation. The nursing home gig I mainly do woundcare, there's an 2 LPN doing all the meds and 3 CNAs doing all the cleaning. It's nights so I don't have to worry about anyone going to appointments or coming back and I don't deal with any mealtime bullshit.

11pm-7am nursing home
8pm-4pm rehab
5pm-10 sleep

Also I sleep for like 4 hours at the nursing home because between 1-5am there's fuck all to do other than give out pain meds and hope that someone doesn't die.

got any advice for a finance / econ double major with a 3.0 gpa graduating this spring? I just need a decent job that I can work at for a year or 2 and then build up from there.

I don't have enough saved to buy an apartment building near Seattle and its suburbs. They'd require a mortgage. I'm trying to live debt free. Not into the risk vs reward when it involves possible debt.

engineering. i sell myself well, speak well, and have a high level of intelligence. i'm never lacking for work, yet i would argue that my degree is worthless because all available (relevant) jobs pay less than a trade.

Hey, look into EHR development.

T. Health information management exec.

BS in Business, can biz bros recommend me a Masters in Finance? Eurocuck btw

I assume you're talking about applying for top b-schools? I had 3.2 GPA for biology but I did Physics after the Army and had a 4.0 GPA which shows I was more serious about school. Bio/phys were 7 years apart. Studied my ass off and got a 760 GMAT. Glorified my Army experience as leadership experience and working in a high stress environment. (Spent a year in Afghanistan). Also, I'm another statistic as a student veteran which looks good for the school. I had two rec letters. One from my physics prof, and one from a good friend in the army. I also got accepted at Wharton, but not at hbs or sloan.

I was going to try an engineering degree but I only had enough credits to finish Physics in one academic year since they had a biophysics route and so I was already half way done with just my bio degree.

It seems like in most stem majors besides CS you really need to get yourself into grad school. Technicians get paid pretty well nowadays. It's kind of like how RNs/PAs get compensated well without becoming an doctor.

wew, that's gotta mess with your circadian rhythm. I couldn't do that personally. Are you planning on NEETing it for a few years after you save or something

Fair enough. If I were you I'd just grab a wagie job to live off of (or use as the payment for the mortgage) while using the savings to put partially down on some apartments; the risk is worth it to me and a friend of mine has been doing well in this particular area but I am not you and do not fully understand your situation so good luck either way on your plans.

How long have you been in for
T.Senior in tax that left for a financial analyst role.

you nailed it on the head. there is a huge circlejerk surrounding 'engineering' degrees presently and more and more people are being led to believe that it is a failsafe, of sorts. truth is: you either end up with a bland, generic engineering job where the pay is shit (and you could have likely applied with a similar, yet easier degree like architecture or surveying), or you do another 2 years and $xxxx.xx in order to secure more prestigious employment via a masters program.

engineering degrees are the new english degrees.

They have become the ultimate meme here in Canada. High immigration + "guaranteed job" student oversaturation + collapse in oil prices + offshoring manufacturing = unemployed engineers

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