It’s funny, I went to college and got my degree in mechanical engineering. I’m glad I went and it’s definitely made my career easier. However, as a power plant operator, in my state a degree isn’t needed, just licensing.
I live in the US. I went to college right after graduating high school and it was magical.
Yes, I did. Did my Bachelor’s and Master’s in computer science in media. Studying is almost free in my country and having a relevant degree gives you much better job opportunities. So there’s no real reason not to do it, unless you specifically want some non-academic job. And even then, spending a few years at college is a pretty good time and a valuable experience.
I wish studying was almost free here. Thankfully I got a good number of scholarships and worked the whole time. So luckily I’m not drowning in debt. I learned a lot but I didn’t live on campus or care about campus events. So I think I missed out on some of the experiences.
Sort of…
I did get accepted, but FUCKING DEPRESSION DERAILED MY LIFE
FUUUUUUUUUUU
i withdrew…
mom got so disappointed in me…
Not even an "A"sian anymore…
fuck my life
now I’m just a puddle of "D"epression
now my older brother has something to make fun of me about… he got a degree and now I bet he feels so smug about it…
like, bro: shut the fuck up bitch ass dipshit, you caused me so much trauma
/end rant
Sorry to hear that friend.
If he ever gloats about having a degree, I’ve had success with tossing back “in order for me to feel insulted, I would have to value your opinion”
Its made two relatives block me and my mother in law call several relatives to cry and moan about how evil and manipulative I am because when she responded with multiple gigantic run-on paragraph/sentences in a row, I hit her with “lol. I ain’t gonna read all that”
People who take pleasure in how much better they believe their lives or decisions are typically can’t stand it when someone else doesn’t fucking care
Doesn’t matter, he’s gonna laugh when he manage to win over my mother and get my half of the inheritance. Their empire that I help build, that I deserve.
Doesn’t matter when he gets to live life easily, and I end up homeless, possibly en up in a concentration camp getting sweeped up in ICE raids.
My parents are so fucking ablist. They think giving me anything is a waste. “Go live off welfare, you useless shit”, completely disregarding that donald fucling trump is cutting off all the social services right now.
They want me to die.
I have no one else, if my parents cut me off, I’m as good as dead.
After all that I help y’all with, this is how I get betrayed.
Fuck this, I’d rather ICE just get us all, at least we’d be in hell together.
“Filial piety” lmfao fuck this
Fuck confucious.
I got tired of working crappy jobs for >$10/hr, so I went and got a 2 year degree in IT. A few months after graduation, I got a job in my chosen field, and a couple years after that, I landed a position specifically related to my degree. While a college degree isn’t necessary in every job/field, in my case, it’s been the wisest decision and had the most profound impact in my life so far.
That’s great to hear!
I studied philosophy and history of art as a double major for undergraduate. Doing a humanities degree was the right decision at the time for me. Should mention that I didn’t have to pay tuition fees as a Scottish person in Scotland.
During that degree I ended up getting interested in Linux since I enjoyed seeing a practical example of altruism in the real world. Laterally I did a masters in Computing at a former polytechnic uni and have been working as a programmer ever since. Analytic philosophy actually maps onto coding really nicely since they are both ultimately concerned with discrete mathematics. I did have to take on a student loan for that degree but it didn’t take me long to pay it off. It wasn’t computer science since I didn’t have the prerequisite STEM undergraduate degree but it focused on practical aspects of computing like developing desktop applications with Java, webdev with C# and JS, databases with SQL and introduction to operating systems.
It also helped that in my advanced logic classes in philosophy I’d studied the Church Turing thesis, which is just about the most fundamental concept in Comp.Sci.
I started because my parents made me. I stayed because mechanical engineering is pretty cool. I’ve had some very cool jobs in robotics and aerospace, currently going back to school part-time to study electrical engineering. After being in the industry for 10-ish years I realized I’m more interested in EE.
At the time I went to college, I planned to become a librarian. 2008 happened when I was graduating and looking at getting into a library so I could qualify for a scholarship on my master’s, and things didn’t work out. I’m now in marketing. I don’t know if I’m using anything from college or not anymore, because it’s been 15 years and it’s just a blur.
I had a career plan to make college worth the money and time. The economy fell apart just in time for that to be impossible. I was struggling until about 2017, when I briefly got into private education.
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Yeah I’d imagine you do haha
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I did and I became a better person because of it.
I got a two year English degree and now work in tech. It was primarily focused on creative writing, which doesn’t help much in my field.
I did some community college, took all the “required” classes although every fiber of my being was angry & restless about it, intuitively knowing it was a waste of precious time, energy, money, resources,
even doing what was “required,” I felt like I was fucking around when I should’ve been out in the real world living my life because I’ve got SO MUCH LIFE IN ME and college sucks out the life force.
But I still needed money to survive because you can’t survive without money, so I spent a couple years in two vocational schools and now I am working in those fields.
Vocational schools are a fast track to employment. Employment needed to pay off the educational loans 🤦🏼♀️
Yes and it was totally worth it. Got a number of jobs in my career that I would not have without the degree.
I did: Got a free ride pretty much so why not? I ended up getting multiple degrees in part just because they sounded interesting (I was also working 1-4 jobs depending on the time though, so some of it was part time).
I have not ruled out going back sometime in the future if the opportunity presents itself.
I wish I wasn’t 17 when I had to make the decisions about it, and I wish I did many things differently. But ultimately yes I’m glad to have recieved a degree.
I did but had no direction and left after 3 years. Children, marriage, and returned at age 35 for a 2-year healthcare degree. Glad i went back. Sometimes i wish I’d known at 17 that this would be my path but then I probably would have skipped the kids and marriage - the things i didn’t know i wanted and the relationships that make my life rich and worthwhile.
The only direction I really had was the example set by my parents. They were/are social workers and we ALWAYS struggled financially. I picked something interesting to me that I knew made good money. I still do plenty of volunteer work and events with the companies my parents work for. But my job isn’t social work and never will be. Not to bash social workers in any way shape or form, just a severely underpaid path.
