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Post by Tikobe on Dec 18, 2017 21:56:18 GMT -4
Today I made a massive achievement: I have now officially chosen a career to major in (Criminology). This will be my second year of college, and I've just now chosen a major and even then it's still tentative.
I know that we've still got a lot of people in high school, and some select few may even be in college like myself, and so I was wondering what your life plan was? Are you going to go into college? Do you know what you intend to major in? Are you just gonna go straight to a job after high school? You gonna go to Vo-Tech? What for?
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Post by Bannanachair on Dec 18, 2017 22:23:06 GMT -4
I don't know.
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Post by Benzo on Dec 18, 2017 23:34:53 GMT -4
I've always been somewhat of a slacker, knowing I've always got the family business to fall back on. That said, I've been taking classes for coding (namely Python) and game development, now that game modders are starting to make careers out of it.
Personally, I think brick-and-mortar colleges are starting to become an outrageous waste of time and money. I dropped out and started just taking online classes as my leisure, and at about 1/750 of the price I've been learning more, and learning it quicker.
That said, some things like criminology probably don't have quite so many good options except brick and mortar, so that's understandable.
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Post by Tikobe on Dec 18, 2017 23:53:57 GMT -4
I've always been somewhat of a slacker, knowing I've always got the family business to fall back on. That said, I've been taking classes for coding (namely Python) and game development, now that game modders are starting to make careers out of it. Personally, I think brick-and-mortar colleges are starting to become an outrageous waste of time and money. I dropped out and started just taking online classes as my leisure, and at about 1/750 of the price I've been learning more, and learning it quicker. That said, some things like criminology probably don't have quite so many good options except brick and mortar, so that's understandable. Yeah, from the looks of it I might be able to cut it with a Bachelor's if I'm lucky, but more likely than not I'm gonna need to shoot for a Master's or even (RIP wallet) a Doctorate's. |
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Post by Bannanachair on Dec 18, 2017 23:59:28 GMT -4
I've always been somewhat of a slacker, knowing I've always got the family business to fall back on. That said, I've been taking classes for coding (namely Python) and game development, now that game modders are starting to make careers out of it. Personally, I think brick-and-mortar colleges are starting to become an outrageous waste of time and money. I dropped out and started just taking online classes as my leisure, and at about 1/750 of the price I've been learning more, and learning it quicker. That said, some things like criminology probably don't have quite so many good options except brick and mortar, so that's understandable. Yeah, from the looks of it I might be able to cut it with a Bachelor's if I'm lucky, but more likely than not I'm gonna need to shoot for a Master's or even (RIP wallet) a Doctorate's. Speaking from personal experience, a doctorate won't guarantee a job. Source: My mother has a doctorate and has been trying to get a job since she graduated like 5 years ago. |
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Post by Eternity 2.0 on Dec 19, 2017 0:01:53 GMT -4
As a college freshman with no life aspirations or general clue of what's going on, way to go dude!
Right now I think my only real options are something in the business area (accounting is boring but I'm good at it), or something involving theater/movie direction (work I enjoy but can't earn much money doing at the levels I want to pursue). I probably should've taken college online, but then I'd never leave the house.
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Post by Benzo on Dec 19, 2017 0:07:52 GMT -4
^
Adding to Tim, that is exactly why physical colleges, well in the US at least, are mostly a waste. A degree of any kind is not a job promise; It's one more reference to put on your resume that for some reason is actually the only reference that will be paid any heed.
Your HS degree becomes worthless after a single day of college, which should speak volumes. You can drop out on day 2, and people will still look at that first day and assign more importance over the kid with a 3.95 who never stepped foot in a college. So save yourself the time and money if you're only going for a Bachelor's. It's not worth the debt unless your family can pay up-front.
Experience is the most valuable asset. College CAN offer that, but a lot of time it's really just egotistical professors who just want to spout their political views all day and will fail you at the end of the semester for not agreeing.
College in the US is almost a joke.
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Post by Bannanachair on Dec 19, 2017 0:25:19 GMT -4
^ Adding to Tim, that is exactly why physical colleges, well in the US at least, are mostly a waste. A degree of any kind is not a job promise; It's one more reference to put on your resume that for some reason is actually the only reference that will be paid any heed. It was an Australian school as well, so there's that. The trick to surviving, I think, is finding some niche market in the economy for you to get involved in. Traditional jobs have too many applicants, so lawyers and doctors that are just good don't get hired; you need to be very good. I think that we can blame Reagan for this, but I'm not 100% sure. The rich who aren't putting their fortunes back into the economy are the ones who are to blame, though. If you make a billion dollars and do nothing with it, it's worse for the economy than if you were to douse it in gasoline and light it on fire, because at least then you'd have to buy gasoline and a match. I'm going off topic. Back to the topic at hand! Your HS degree becomes worthless after a single day of college, which should speak volumes. You can drop out on day 2, and people will still look at that first day and assign more importance over the kid with a 3.95 who never stepped foot in a college. So save yourself the time and money if you're only going for a Bachelor's. It's not worth the debt unless your family can pay up-front. In my case I don't know if my highschool degree will even exist (or, if it'll exist, if it'll make sense), but I think I can get into college. I have a weird life and don't care to share my life story, but without a college degree, despite having had a good education, I think that on paper I'll count as much as a highschool dropout. I don't know if my parents can pay all the money for my education up front, but I'm going to leave them with the debt if there is any. Experience is the most valuable asset. College CAN offer that, but a lot of time it's really just egotistical professors who just want to spout their political views all day and will fail you at the end of the semester for not agreeing. Or I could just not take a course where that's possible? I mean, try fitting your political views into a lecture on differential equations or military tactics employed during Alexander the Great's campaigns. It's just not possible, to my knowledge. College in the US is almost a joke. Honestly, the majority of today's institutions are a joke, but especially American college. It should be free, like highschool, but it isn't. Actually, for that matter, why is it even separate from highschool? Why did some guy at some point in time decide "People will learn this at 18 as they finish highschool, and then they'll learn this other unrelated thing at 19 as they enter college, and they won't have a say in the matter"? It's stupid. Almost as stupid as the nuclear family structure, today's economy and countries (all three of which I think are stupid for their own reasons). Depending on your particular beliefs, feel free to throw in religion and absolutely anything to do with how old people are. Basically, there's a lot of stupid stuff in today's world that shouldn't exist. I went into more detail about just one of them in a thread called "Love and Marriage", named for the Sinatra song of the same name, but only sort of, as that was sort of about something else. |
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