Thread 107167563

>2 years post-graduation with no job
is it over?

>>107167563 (OP)
if you didn't get an internship and no nepo connections then yeah, it was all for nothing. better luck next time.

I remember going to high school and all the kids thought they're supposed to go straight to college and then get a comfy triple digit job. Follow the playbook, get a "degree", ????, profit

>>107167722
Everyone I know either dropped out or has a degree that is worthless. I'm glad I didn't fall for it. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fucking loser, but at least I don't have student loans and nothing to show for it like a lot of my friends did. I have one friend in his 30s and he still hasn't paid off his loans from his early 20s. He works at walmart.

It's over for everyone.

>>107167563 (OP)
no it's just beginning
look forward to your remaining decades with no job
where we're going no one will even want a job
welcome to post scarcity

>>107167722
>I remember going to high school and all the kids thought they're supposed to go straight to college and then get a comfy triple digit job
Apparently that was fucking everyone.
I was the only few with realistic expectations.
I'm 28 and on my second contract for what I wanted my career to be. Took 4 years from graduating in 2019 to get the first.

That 4 years was doing what I could but no real expectations.

>>107168093
I'm finishing up my degree right now with a job lined up.
I looked through my university's list of available degrees and 90% of them don't even look like any job involving them could possibly exist.
Getting rug pulled by STEM is understandable, but it makes me wonder what goes on in the mind of all the people studying feminist basket weaving.

>>107168296
>but it makes me wonder what goes on in the mind of all the people studying feminist basket weaving.
They aren't thinking or they are 3 steps of everyone.
There are tons of NGOs, government jobs, and corporate positions that I can only describe as DEI (even if I hate that term) that don't require competence in any particular field but require degrees as filters.

Realized this shit was fucked in 2016 took a few cc classes and yup, full of retards.
It's the reality of the internet, literally anybody can be trained to do any job they are physically capable of, and if they can't? well who cares all the markets are captured anyway
Screw actual competence, just standardize everything so retards can google "how 2 fix ac" on the clock

>>107167722
>triple digit
yeah they're hyped for the $999/year job kill yourself ESL
>>107168219
I hate this retarded "oh what's wrong kid you didnt get the six figure job? cry some more"
give a recent CS grad a $40k-$60k/year position and they'll be happy.
>>107168296
see>>107168378 liberal arts is unironically a more profitable degree than STEM at this point

>>107170009
>give a recent CS grad a $40k-$60k/year position and they'll be happy.
kek this is actually true. I graduated and worked for 35k and had to live with my parents until I could find something better. but at least I was getting paid experience.
>>107170009
>liberal arts is unironically a more profitable degree than
unironically true. my friends with arts degrees got desk jobs in government and shit somehow. writing emails > writing code

>>107168093
my student loans came to $30k for my master's and i got an $85k salary job after about 8 months
this used to be the normal for a bachelor's though, doesn't look too good going forward

>>107167563 (OP)
sameish
i did have an internship tho i guess, and i spent a lot of my time getting gud at linux and networking
what do i do from here though? i guess i'd like to do something devops/network architecture/sysadmin related, but i don't know where to start

>>107167563 (OP)
Yeah but it's an obsolete field not your fault learn to weld

>>107170009
>>107170052
>paying $40k for CS
This is entirely true and it pisses me off when companies pretend they can't hire in the civilized world without offering a minimum of 69 gorillion dollars per year but refuse to even offer lower wages.
I'm confident you could hire new graduates for minimum wage as long as you understand they're leaving at the soonest possible opportunity.

>>107167563 (OP)
you are a firstie you should be fine