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Me and my liberal arts degree, that was so unpopular my uni renamed it to an interdisciplinary studies degree, that was so unpopular they re-renamed it to a college studies degree, that was so unpopular they had to attach it to an education degree, essentially making the whole thing a Gen Ed major for aspiring teachers.

Anyone willing to pay for a comparitive analysis of Melville’s Moby Dick and McCarthy’s Blood Meridian? I can do it in French or English. I swear it’s really important to society as a whole. I’m definitely glad I didn’t just get a journeyman welding certificate for free from a Job Corps.

Go to college they said…. It will benefit your life…..smh

Me trying to get a government job with my public health degree… LOL. FEMA’s gone, NPS is gone, OSHA’s on its way out. Literally my top three choices, poof

So thankful I never listened! I followed my instincts and my gut which told me to NEVER go into debt.

Any advisor that told me to go to college, I asked how it worked out for them. Stressed, over worked, underpaid, can’t afford healthcare, etc? No thank you!

Even engineering lol

Don’t worry, neither is the field you don’t love.

Went to college. Waiting for the benefits… smh.

fine arts degrees woop!

I think we should stop telling children that they can be whatever they want and instead try to foster a more pragmatic mindset of analyzing the available opportunities and making decisions based on educated guesswork.

I was born in the 1990s. I became a software developer, because it was clear that it was going to be a good career and I enjoyed the little bit of coding I had tried in high school. I think that’s what we should be telling kids: Find a means of making money that has a high probability of success and that you don’t hate doing. You’ll probably have to settle on something that isn’t your dream job, but happiness is about managing expectations. I wouldn’t say that software developer is my “dream job”, but it is a great job by all important metrics and it had a very high chance at “success” among my available career options. It’s a foundation for happiness in my life, not a source of misery or stress.

That’s not a sad message imo. Personally, I find optimism in that advice, because that’s not bullshit. It’s advice that works and the end result is likely that you’ll be financially stable and happy.

Every parent should be forcing their children around the age of 16 to plan their life out a bit. Do just a few hours of research on careers. Makes plans and make some backup plans. Their life almost certainly won’t go as planned, but it will go better than if they went forward with no plan.

My parents pushed IT so hard on me and I just told them straight up that those jobs will be outsourced once the internet reaches China and India lol. Occasionally I bring it up to them when I want them to realize they don’t know everything. I drive trains, it pays well over $100k and I’m not stuck indoors staring at a screen all day. Much better than losing your job to someone in Asia who is willing to do it for a dollar a day.

I have a degree in fine arts abd another in computer science. I use neither for my job and work as a machinist. Although I do use both for my personal projects. Board game and video game design.

I went for IT because I could see that computers were where things were going and they were going to be doing more and more in the future, so may as well be safe in a career that would be more and more in demand for people to keep them going rather than in the fields being taken over by them.

All these years later, as AI and automation is rapidly taking over more and more fields, boy was I ever right!

Double Major in Archaeology and Anthropology. Haven’t used it except for volunteering at a Museum.

Wish I’d gone for a trade when I was younger and less depressed.

Good thing I studied game development to become a designer only to finish right when the industry starts collapsing, haha!