What should I be looking to do with myself career-wise if I'm 21 and have a meme degree from a respected university?
What I mean by this is, what kind of industries should I be looking to enter so that I can set myself up to be making good money in 5-10 years? There are plenty of career paths that are easy to get into and pay the kind of money that I'd be happy with at my age, but don't have any real expansion beyond meagre pay. My country (the UK) is pushing hard to get people to become teachers at the minute. While I think it's something I could do, and might be an "easy" path for someone like me to get my foot in the door to a job with a real salary, I fucking hate kids, I can't see it leading to good money and I fear it actually may be damaging from a career perspective to have been a teacher.
The meme degree in question is a English Literature 2:1 from a top 20 uni, not sure if I should invest in knee pads or if I should straight up kill myself.
>Nah, I'm about money. can i ask why you decided to get an english degree? where did you see that leading to?
Leo Rogers
You've got to realise I was 16 at the time of making this decision.
Christopher Lopez
What a god damn qt.
Lucas Smith
English Literature? With that, your best luck is being a teacher. I studied stats and I can tell you Ive never had a job where I had to write an essay, or anything more than a paragraph a day.
Wyatt Walker
Friend of mine did TeachFirst for a year or two. Primary school kids. He's now at Accenture or KPMG or wherever making more money.
Carson Harris
Been looking at what teachers pay and it looks like it's pretty much certain to top out below what I'd be happy at.
Asher Clark
German literature meme degree here. Learn more languages and move to another country for a while. Teach that language on your country when you are back. Meanwhile earn money with random translations or jobs related to tourism. Also learn to program, not even kidding. I'm designing 2 apps for german learning purposes.
Thomas Rogers
>Also learn to program Self teach or do a qualification? I'm into computers and shit but not the kind of stuff related to programming, have zero experience in it.
Connor Flores
>I'm into computers and shit but not the kind of stuff related to programming, have zero experience in it. I could have said exactly the same some months ago. I'm teaching myself, but thinking seriously about doing a qualification. However, research App Inventor (MIT) and MIT projects related to scratch. They made it really easy to develop android stuff.
Neat, ty for info. I was considering doing a CS masters at my university a year ago, but it was a conversion course type thing. I never got around to it though as I got into work instead. I guess I'll spend some time trying shit out and see if it's for me.
Thomas Lewis
checked.
Jacob Roberts
bitch looks retarded
Ian Wilson
Teacher here,
75% of people in my country fail to become a teacher. 50% stop their training to become one and another 50% quits in their first 5 years. Thing is user, they need teachers to replace sick ones. And your hours will spread on differenent schools. You have all kind of shit administration you have to adhere to. And have to follow certain goals and teach those to hour students.
So bad work hours, inconsistent income, loads of administration, stress, extra "activities", shitty starting pay, ...
There is a reason why people don't want to be a fucking teacher. In my country its even worse (Belgium) Your pay depends on your degree only. I finished college only and I can't do a fucking masters because those are not allowed in colleges. I have to do a bunch of extra studying to get a decent fucking wage. My current income is 800 pounds, like I live on welfare...
You also have to take extra classes to become qualified prob.
So they only want masters which earn more elsewhere and pay college undergrads like shit and make em work more. Jeeeeez, I wonder why nobody wants to become a teacher.....
Fuck UNI's and their shitty lobbying and fuck teaching in general.
Brody Miller
the only reason people become teachers is to diddle kids
Kayden Gomez
You could become a lawyer. Law firms actually like people who have studied English or other subjects not just law. Would be a lot of training and more exams but it's a worthwhile career with loads of opportunities to progress and make big money if your good at it.
Blake Sullivan
Guess I won't become a teacher then.
Also will look into it.
Ian White
I wholeheartedly second this person’s advice to not become a teacher. Teachers only do what they do because they feel it as a calling (or other non-rational reasoning processes).
That’s a terrible wage, 800 pounds. Is that bi-weekly?
Andrew Martin
its a man isnt it
Oliver Long
Quality brap upboated
Cameron Ross
I might actually fly to Japan and try to buy this chick for a night.
Jose Wright
I came to this thread for more pictures. I didnt read anything. Good luck with your pageetcoin or whatever idiot
Elijah Flores
21 and you already have a bachelor? you started uni with 17? get a masters btw my dude
Jacob Gutierrez
I was kind of in the same situation as OP. I started reading books about finance and simple ones like Rich Dad Poor Dad and realized most of what we are lead to believe is a lie.
If you are about money become a sales person, even if you are an introvert. It will help you to grow as a person and sales people are the most rewarded financially of any profession. Do it right and make every sale mutually beneficial and you will see the old meme of all sales people being greedy selfish cunts is not true.
Take the extra income from commissions and learn to invest. You will fuck up at first but will eventually get good and money will always flow to you.
If you really want wealth right now and mean it I would suggest reading a book like Think and Grow Rich (Hill) or Science of Getting Rich ( Wattles) over and over again til you go insane or get it.
