• tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    upwards of 90% of everyone who neglected to choose a STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) degree is unemployable in their chosen field. there just arent that many jobs that actually need a liberal arts, education, marketing, etc degree - you have to basically be the best in a very competitive market.

    yeah, it’s hilarious - they think upvoting/downvoting (or brigading unpopular comments) matters.

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      1 year ago

      Amen! And that’s always been the case - that’s why the traditional good advice has been that you get a business degree, with a minor in whatever the fuck actually interested you. A business degree is always applicable in every field, and like you said it’s rare that you actually get a career that follows your major. 90% of the time the college degree itself just proved that you could show up on time and follow instructions - but that’s gone out the window too in the past 20 years. Nowadays if you want a worthwhile secondary education trade school is where it’s at - you can’t outsource the trades.

      I’m old enough to remember when “don’t take loans you can’t afford to repay, and pay your fucking bills” was universal common sense and not left vs right - but look at this dumpster fire of triggered communists expecting to be absolved of the consequences of their poor choices by daddy government. Personally, I think they’re just salty that they got lied to again, and everybody who told them this would happen was dismissed / blocked / deplatformed as a being an alt-right nazi bigot. Shucks!