>All those potential reaction faces

>implying I didn't drop out of middleschool

Old people should be killed.

>Engineering

have fun getting no job when I'm getting 6 figures after 5 years of graduate program

>>1839330
...Is that greentext supposed to be there?

>>1839344
>Boomers should be killed.
fixed

The jobs in my line of study will open up once the baby boomers start retiring.
Looking forward to that, they've been nothing but a problem.

Ugh, Boomers

>>1839390
>>1839363


Euthanasia has never looked so appealing.

There is a bitch I really hate, I take pleasure in the fact that she majors in english studies
Also engineering master race here

>>1839330
>implying uni education isnt free
>implying I cant have a flexible part time job on the side as I study
>americans are so dumb hueahueeahahaheheh

mfw when my hobby is math

>not using your degree to get a foothold in a completely unrelated job to your field
>ISHYGDDT

>>1839457
Someone sounds butthurt, let me guess she's just snobby or slutty and there's no feelings of attraction or jealousy on your part

I'm never really sure why people go so fucking mental about this stuff. It's only 3/4 years of your life, you have a fucking blast and it's the only time in your life you will really get to learn something.

What were you going to be doing from 18 to 21 that was fruitful anyway? If you've always lived at home and been imprisoned in school you are not going to know who you really are or what you want out of life so you have to soul explore a little first.

I've met lots of kids that didn't go to college. They became chefs and what not and a lot of them get out of it when they are in their mid 20s because it's not what they really want to do.

In the UK until the fee changes you may as well have gone to university because the opportunities it opens far outweigh the negatives.

>>1839498
>mfw my hobby is physics

>>1839365
field/degree?

>>1839516
actually we dated and she fucked me over big time, but how is this related to the fact that I can laugh about her shit tier education?

My parents are 50 years old, are they boomers?

>>1839517
>it's the only time in your life you will really get to learn something.

Yer doing it wrong.

>>1839348
>being an employee as an engineer
Ill enjoy my 7 figure pay out from paying other engineers money to work in my business. (although I am an engineer myself)

>mfw my hobby is hard work

>>1839531
I know an English major who knows and lives with some Engineering majors, I was digging for info on the extremely remote chance it was them, but since it isn't I don't care

>>1839535

If you're doing a real degree and actually doing the work there is no way that you can maintain that level of learning with a full time job unless it is a fairly lax one and you are doing a drip fed distance learning course.

On top of that you aren't going to have other opportunities to interact with world leading experts in your subject.

>>1839546
Also damn my honest, even online I do it, why can't I just play along sometimes...

Why aren't people assigned a career path by the government, calculated from tests performed during early childhood? Would fix everything.

>>1839562
because niggers.

specifically because 90 percent of niggers, being genetically subpar, would test out as "ditch digger" or "laborer" and would shout "dass racisss" from the rooftops.

>implying any of my parents are successful
>implying my dad's grandparents didn't retire comfortably because they saved up while working jobs that didn't require 4-year degrees, which I can just go into after graduating anyway with no particular loss saved for the economic crash which was caused by boomer-aged businessmen anyway
>implying doing retail with assholes and lifting boxes and shit would have done more for my future than the time I spent in high school playing sports, mock trial, and earning academic accolades, or my time spent in college studying abroad, completely independent research projects, language intensives, certificates, international advisory programs, leadership training programs, specialized poli sci events, and tutoring as a part-time job

Yeah okay. If only I had just tried to become a welder instead of accepting my 38k a year scholarship (+ state/federal grants) to a 4 year college. Now my future is ruined and it's all my fault.

>>1839562
This, guvmint should assign me a job instead of letting me be a jobless bum.

>>1839562

Because then we'd have too many astronauts, firefighters, princesses and dinosaurs

>>1839562
This is not that far from how East Asian countries operate.

Spoiler alert: no one is happy

>>1839570
>too many dinosaurs


The reason I like dinosaurs is because they're large and they're fierce, and they're scary but also they're kind, such as to their babies. Dinosaurs hatch from eggs, and they still live with their parents until they are big enough to feed on they're own, one reason why dinosaurs are like people. The best dinosaur is the T rex, because he was the strongest dinosaur and all the leaf eaters had to listen to what he says or he could eat them. I like the T rex alot. Chances are that the T rex isn't extinct because he would have found a way to stay healthy after the meteor, like he could be in a cave with a few dinosaurs to munch on or maybe as his friends, and also a T rex had really strong skin like a tank or like an alligator, so probably nothing could get in to kill the T rex. If I was a T rex, I would roar really loud. I would name a T rex Trevor, because it is like "Clever" and also it is similar to the name T rex, so he could've been called Trevor the T rex. The way you should react when you see a T rex is you should run, because he can run very fast, even as or faster than a speeding car, and he'll want to eat you if he sees you and he's hungry.

Do any adventurous girls want to skype with a badboy who does what he wants, and can be exciting in bed like a T rex? I can munch, and slurp, and stab, and roar, and I am the most cool dinosaur on the Jurassic, if you are excited and you want a real man to dominate to your deepest lusts, and nibble your ear or your neck, and pull your hair and fuck breathlessly for hours, so you feel small against his powerful thrusts, and he could make you moan from pleasure until you pass out, you could skype me because I can do those things, and if you're good I could take you to my T rex cave and you could be my next fearsome meal. I am Trevor.

>>1839570
lol, that poster didn't mean testing for what one WANTS to do, but what one has the SKILLS to do. Few people, obviously, would have the skills necessary to be an astronaut, and no one would have the skills necessary to be a dinosaur.

>tfw no hind claws on arms for eviscerating my prey
>you will never be a dinosaur

>>1839601
This is what I wish every post on /r9k/ could be

>>1839601
>whymoisture.jpg

> become mining engineer
> be one of the best payed engineers
> u mad

>spending time getting to know computers

>spending time studying more advanced subjects

>expecting me to subject myself to the stupidity of the common masses as a servant for their petty consumerism

>>1839655
>payed engineers

>still can't spell for shit

>pre-law
>going to best college in state

feels good mang

>>1839655
>engineers
>too pussy for the real deal, physics

At least you'll get good at sucking cock.

>>1844042
But physics won't buy me hookers and blow.

>green text in a comic

>>1844052
Why would you need that anyway as an engineer

But I haven't, I am taking a course that could lead to jobs working for the government, T.V., movies, the music industry, the military, companies that design product packaging, video games industry, etc.

>getting a shitty degree
>not dropping out and browsing /r9k/ all day

And not a single loan was signed that day.

>greentext
>copyright 2011
How come I've never seen this before?

But the state paid, and is still paying, for my education

>>1844052
>>1844042
>>1844095
>Engineer who doesn't know physics?
What sort of engineer are you? A fuel injection engineer because all other engineers have physics.

>>1844245
because photoshop, genius

>>1839531
>exactly me except she was a french major
brofist!

>CRJ major here

I have no aspirations of being the first man on mars, or to become a rockstar, actor or famous painter. When I get my 2 year community college degree I will join the ranks of the civil servants and do my 20 years.

>>1844291
he's a social engineer

>ba dum tch

I'm going to a country college for two years and then transferring to a decent Uni

I plan to get a Computer Science degree...am I doing it right ?

>>1844529
*county
sorry

>2011
>putting your greentext in a comic
le seinfeldface

>implying I'm not studying Computer Science at a school with a top tier program

>>1844559
>le
oh, so is r9k filled with reddit fags too ?

>>1844568
trolled softly

blockblox

>>1844568
That's the joke...

bloxx

> being fat and so old you're unable to do half the things you've always wanted to do so you settle for golf and knitting and bingo nights

NO THANKS ILL KEEP PURSUING MY DREAMS AND BEING HAPPY NOW.

> and I had two jobs in highschool fuck-you-very-much

This is why, even though I hate my degree so much, I am glad my parents made me do it.

They forced me into medicine even though I am capable of producing enough spaghetti to fill the oceans because they knew it would be a good job. I may have spent my childhood and teenage years working hard and being a loser, but it'll pay off soon.

>history degree

>decide I don't want to end up like people in OPs pic
>to go college for engineering
>the economy collapses
>work hard so I can find employment upon graduation
>no one is offering internships because loleconomy
>graduate
>4 months and hundreds of job applications later still no job
>read on news about the lack of engineers
>rage

There are a ton of engineers out there. The "lack of engineers" stories are made up. Companies want congress to increase the amount of H1B visas so they can flood the market with cheap Indian engineers that can be worked like slaves.

>cheap/free university degrees
>america
Pick one.

>getting an expensive degree in a field that offers few/no jobs
>not being retarded
Pick one.

>mfw math Ph.D., any job I want, 300k starting

How easy is it to get a job with a physics bachelors? Has anyone had to deal with that?

>Community College
>Associate in Communication and Comp Sci
>Only took 2 years
>5k debt only (already paid off) / Saved 6k when compared to local Uni
>All credits are transferable to local Uni if I want Bachelor
>Lots of jobs offers in the 35k to 45k range.
>Turn out better than I thought

>>1844972
Almost impoossible. Unless you make additional traching course and start teaching elementary kids.

>Native American
>Tribe will literally pay me to go to college ($800 a month, in my pocket)
>(as long as I don't flunk out)
>Plan on milking the system and going for a degree in my hobby for a warmup and then going for a serious degree later.

You mad, whitefags?

>>1845042

>MFW university degree in CS.
>MFW nearly 20k in debt.
>MFW we'll probably end up doing the same soulless code monkey work.

>>1845069
Not at all. Your people have suffered so tremendously that it is comforting to see you succeed.

I blame the 1% and the bankers and the republicans it's all their fault I have no skill to contribute to society

>You can be anything you want to be when you grow up!!!
>You can be anything you want to be when you grow up!!!
>You can be anything you want to be when you grow up!!!


>You want to do what? Don't be a retard, get a job working in a cubical for life.


I honestly think most of it comes from us not being honest enough with kids about the real world.

>>1845069
A lot of Natives prefer the white mans fire-water to his books. So go Anon, we need more Natives who make something out of their lives.

>having to do something with your life that you don't want to do

It really fucking shouldn't be like that. It really shouldn't.

>>1839601
>implying any tyrannosaurids lived during the Jurassic period

Actually, it really doesn't matter what you do, so long as you're in the top ~1%. You think NY Times best selling authors regret their "impractical" English degrees?

>mfw I'm probably gonna study philosophy and either mikrobiology or physics
u mad elitist sciencefags?

>>1845091
1845042, here. Currently, maintaining a network/database for a company at 40k. Not much coding but lots of maintenance, mostly, just making sure computers are talking to each other. Heck, it do most of my work remotely.

>>1845138
Agreed. The fact that American higher education is based more on profit than actual education probably isn't helping anything.

>>1845154
True, friend.
I used to make 44k/year.
Now I make about 10k less, but enjoy the job a lot more.
I guess we all have to make a living, but at some point you have to take the quality of that life into account. What else is there in life beyond being happy? What is that happiness worth to you?
Not to say I wouldn't like a fun AND high paying job, but if I have to choose between the two...

film major, dropped out, and am working where I studied to, and I got no loans, so the jakes on you.

Currently doing an honours degree in Physics and Music, heading into med school in a couple years.
Deal with it.

>>1839330
It's cool, I'm making six figures and I'm 21, I did enter conservatory when I was sixteen, though. Dropped out when I was eighteen, and I've been producing, arranging, and recording ever since.

>did start getting summer jobs at 16
>worked through college paying my own tuition
>got a practical degree
>somehow my fault the economy crashed 4 months before I graduated
>my fault employers stopped hiring anyone with less than 3 years real world experience
>my fault I'm overqualified for minimum wage jobs

Not that I didn't do anything about it. I started my own business but it isn't doing so well, just not enough people willing to put their trust in a guy in his mid 20s with few business references. So a few months ago I said fuck it and now I'm just going to go teach english overseas because it pays better than any job I can get here and I think it will be interesting to live in a different culture for a year or two.

I guess the one thing that went well for me is my parents are very understanding and know how shitty the job market is for people just getting out of school. They let me live with them rent free for a few years while I was trying to get my business going. If I didn't have such great parents I'd probably be on the streets or at least starving. So not all older people are terrible, just the ones that take everything for granted and are going to be hit really hard when they figure out all their healthcare funding is going since the new working class after the baby boomers retire won't pay for their cynical asses to live to 90+.

This shit doesn't make sense.

>Go to college for 4 years (at least)
>Get some shitty job
>Spend the next 40-50 years of your life paying off the debt of college, a house, a car, and everything else
>Wait until you're a decrepit old piece of shit with hella health problems, to actually start having fun.

I'm going to be a vagabond, because while everyone is sitting on their fat asses watching tv after a long day of work, I'll be out cold, hungry, but actually living.

>go to community college
>class fees waived, get a pell grant and 2 for good grades
>only have to buy gas and books
>have saved up 3k in the bank
>have a 4.0, applying to UCs
>already been offered a full scholarship to UCLA

too bad my degree is useless and the job market for phds is awful.

Currently in medschool.

So no, I did not fuck myself over.

Try harder, /r9k/.

>went to community college, transferred in 2 years as a science major with 4.0 GPA
>graduated university with 3.97 GPA
>work as a research tech making $18hr with full cadillac benefits
>graduate school in future for more moneys and independence

Livin the life yo

I dropped out of college due to a fuck up, yeah i fucked up and should have worked harder.

It's been two years since that, i've been on welfare during these two years.

I'm 22.
How bad have i fucked myself in the ass here? Honestly.

I want to go back to college, of course. But i don't want to live the stupid ass dumb shit college lifestyle, i'm beyond that now, i've grown up too much mentally to do that bullshit again.

But i've fuck all cash to live a semi adult lifestyle and handle college due to my situation at the moment.

Ideally i just want to rent out a place with my woman, maybe do a part time job while studying. Enjoy myself .etc

It seems so fucking unobtainable, i dunno. shit SUCKS.

>>1845691
This is what I plan to do as well. If I had to work in a cubicle 40 hours a week just so I could pay my shit ton of bills I'd kill myself. So I've been thinking it over the past couple of years and I plan to buy a van and live in it. I'd drive around the country, work part time, then when I get tired of the job or the place I'm at, I'll pack it up and move down the road. No bills, no responsibility, no debt, no obligations.