/adv/ - Advice

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:03
No.10095366

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Anonymous 06/13/12(Wed)20:03 No.10095366

Can you really get a job anywhere with just a bachelor's degree anymore? I'm currently nearing the end of my first year of community college, and looking at majors to work on, and hollllllly shit this is a little depressing. Hell, I'm considering just going out and finding some place to work just so that I can have the benefit of having experience, but I'm pretty sure that any place that I go to are going to require a MA in Dumbfuckery too. My mother and father both make around 36-45 dollars an hour with very little college experience as well. I'm wanting to get out there and do something, not sit around complete three more years of school, only to have to complete three more years of school. With my luck if I go through that, everything will need a PHD in Dumbfuckery by the time I'm done.

tl;dr anon is buttravaged by current job market and isn't sure where to go from here.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:10
No.10095402

Anonymous No.10095402 06/13/12(Wed)20:10 No.10095402

Try looking into learning a trade.
Where do you live OP?

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:15
No.10095416

Anonymous No.10095416 06/13/12(Wed)20:15 No.10095416

>>10095402
Southern bay area, CA. Looking to move to NY in the next few years.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:19
No.10095436

Anonymous No.10095436 06/13/12(Wed)20:19 No.10095436

>>10095416

Unemployed in the East Bay here. I almost got a PhD in economics. The job market around here is just that awful.

Don't take out student loans to get more education, just get to work if you can. A year of experience > a master's degree right now.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:26
No.10095461

Anonymous No.10095461 06/13/12(Wed)20:26 No.10095461

>>10095436
I was originally thinking about going into Economics, but then I remembered how much I fucking hate doing math. Guess I dodged a bullet there.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:37
No.10095510

Anonymous No.10095510 06/13/12(Wed)20:37 No.10095510

>>10095461

You'd better learn to like math because non-STEM majors are basically useless.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:39
No.10095520

Anonymous No.10095520 06/13/12(Wed)20:39 No.10095520

Stay in school OP, get a BA at the very least (Even if it is some bullshit like Chicano studies, but even then you're still probably fucked). While places do care about experience, they also care about you having a degree (So they see how much bullshit you're able to put up with for four years). Whatever you choose, don't drop out.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:40
No.10095525

Anonymous No.10095525 06/13/12(Wed)20:40 No.10095525

>>10095436
Fuck me.

I'm working my ass off for an economics degree. Don't tell me that.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:42
No.10095538

Anonymous No.10095538 06/13/12(Wed)20:42 No.10095538

>>10095366
It's not you, it's the employees. They want skilled people, but they want it for a cheap price (read: wage) and they realize it's more profitable to hire less people or require more experience than usual (i.e. entry-level job requires 3-5 experience)

There are jobs out there, even for those outside of the STEM majors. But it's difficult for everyone.

P.S. Not everyone can major into STEM, we still will be need for other jobs outside of STEM.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:48
No.10095571

Anonymous No.10095571 06/13/12(Wed)20:48 No.10095571

>>10095525

Don't worry, bro. I'm just overqualified for most things and I'm suffering from the sheepskin effect. I got a great job after I got my econ BA and gave it up to go to grad school and try to become a professor, and just barely didn't make it.

Also I think I've been hideously unlucky. I really should have a job by now.

Economics is still an in-demand degree and a great field, keep working. It's up to us to save the world, after all.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:49
No.10095576

Anonymous No.10095576 06/13/12(Wed)20:49 No.10095576

All I really want to do is work a 9-5 job and come home at a decent time, is there really any such job anymore that has those things that isn't corporate and doesn't need 50 years of school?

Soop !Ya2o6htRkU
06/13/12(Wed)20:51
No.10095587

Soop !Ya2o6htRkU No.10095587 06/13/12(Wed)20:51 No.10095587

>>10095366

Holy shit. There's a house up there?

What's in it?

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)20:59
No.10095635

Anonymous No.10095635 06/13/12(Wed)20:59 No.10095635

>>10095576

Janitor?

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)21:00
No.10095641

Anonymous No.10095641 06/13/12(Wed)21:00 No.10095641

>>10095587

You get a TM inside of it. Hidden power I think.

Anonymous
06/13/12(Wed)21:04
No.10095670

Anonymous No.10095670 06/13/12(Wed)21:04 No.10095670

>>10095635
Hm, I never even thought of that.