Thread 216032905

I am a 32 year old man studying high school math and physics. Just so I can apply to university next year.

Does late career change and bad life choice regrets happen in your country?

life expectancy in the Stone Age was 33

>>216032905 (OP)
I’m envious. Public universities here have an age limit.

>>216032905 (OP)
Im 21 and just had my high-school score and it's shit, i studied at home for 2 months only (second attempt) passed but not enough for for anything good

>>216032905 (OP)
Oh man i'm your age and one year and a half away from my uni degree, i spent my whole 20s being a drug addict, turbo neet and professional pickpocketer, i also ended up in jail a couple of months for drug possession with intent to distribute.
It helps me to think that, even though anyone else might see my current situation as absolutely hellish, I don’t actually feel that bad in my everyday life and every little improvement like landing a job that most would consider absolutely unimpressive to me is a net improvement, also the fact that we suffer way more for fear or pain than for the pain itself, so fuck it

>>216032905 (OP)
>>216033634
Literally me except I'm 27. Don't worry about it, bros. We're all going to make it

>>216032905 (OP)
Nah i'm doing the same, career switches are becoming more and more common now that the labour market is volatile and unpredictable.
Best day to start is 20 years ago, second best is today.

>>216033634
schwayed

>>216032905 (OP)
This is gonnna be me in 9 years

>>216032905 (OP)
Stem used to be your ticket into a comfy, high paying career but now that isn’t so much the case in my country.

I just want to make decent money and not have to worry about living pay check to pay check

>>216032905 (OP)
>Does late career change and bad life choice regrets happen in your country?

Certainly. I made a midlife career change (which included getting a second master's degree when I was older than you are now) and now teach at a community college (these are open postsecondary schools offering technical or professional certificates/diplomas and university preparation courses, among other things). A lot of my students are older adults, some of whom end up transferring to universities.

I make less money than I did at my old job (in a dull corner of the financial world), but I no longer long for the sweet release of death every Sunday night.

>>216032905 (OP)
There's no point bro. AI will perform that stuff in a few years anyway.

>>216032905 (OP)
Lol look at this unc

>>216032905 (OP)
>Does late career change and bad life choice regrets happen in your country?
Yes. I'd like to go back too, but I don't know what I'd actually study, I can't make a living out of the things I actually enjoy. I just know I don't like how things are right now.

>>216032905 (OP)
how's it going with studying math and physics?
and what do you plan to study at university?

>>216035538
>My professor could be shit posting

lul, and if I were in your classroom you’d never guess we browse the same board. Funny how the world works

>>216033634
based itagod (chilean in italy here)

>>216037522
If you took Intro to Macroeconomics from a guy who made a lot of references to agriculture and farm subsidies when talking about inflation, then yes, I am your professor.

I occasionally spot likely /b/tards and /pol/ kids in my classroom, but I don’t know what the tells would be like for someone who browses /int/.

And I assume not many actually post, but more serious academics than I am have been lurking here forever. Personally, I’ve been stopping by to shitpost since long before I became a teacher, but there have been all kinds of attempts to use 4chan as an object of study.

>>216033634
Based past and based present

>>216032905 (OP)
Degrees are still useful. Good job for studying.
Education always pays off.
Don't believe the trade school retards.
The only thing you need for a white collar job is a degree.

>>216032905 (OP)
I did IT certs in my mid 20's after being a NEET from the day I left school which worked out well, a part of me thought about going to Uni during that time but in the end I never did it
Man it was (and is) awkward as fuck when someone asks what uni I went to, mercifully doesn't happen as much these days as I'm a lot older

>>216032905 (OP)
I would go back to school if I could at 27. Even if you start working at 40 and work till 60 that's a solid 20 year career.

>>216032905 (OP)
lol people be like 32 and still figuring out how to make it work

unironically it's literally over for you

>>216038573
I'm currently doing the same thing you did. I only did junior college and I don't see a reason to go back to school + I never liked school.

I spent 6 months grinding khan academy to get up to calculus so I could start a CS degree... Enrolled in school and did like 4 levels of math above the highest level I ever had (precalc).

Now I'm 2 years past graduating with a CS degree that has yet to get me any interviews.

>>216037522
>tfw i got a PhD in medical research and my hobbies are posting off-topic /an/ threads on blue boards
As soon as you realize most 40+ year olds are just 20 years old mentally, you stop taking things so seriously.

Pic related (i'm actually on 97 bans now)

>>216039045
2 years and no interviews?
believable

>>216039135
I didn't even know you could get banned for longer than 3 days

>>216039265
i make a lot of off-topic threads. At some point every thread with an elephant or a beaver as the starting pic got deleted on /v/ and /tv/, even when the thread itself was on-topic.

I got one up right now

>>216039265
I once got hit with a perma ban over a JOKE which the janny didn't take as a joke, ban reason was "uh.. no"

>>216039300
Fuck jannies for banning you

>>216032905 (OP)
Yeah I passed high school with a 2.0 gpa and was basically unemployed for most of my 20s now I’m 30 and I have a good career and my own home and a wife

>>216038524
lol I’m in a trade and didn’t even go to trade school and I make $70/hr and that’s just base pay, not including overtime

>>216032905 (OP)
I spent my 20s as a disable neet, I started school 3 years ago after a decade of doing nothing but watching anime. I plan on going to grad school and studying bioinformatics or bioengineering.

>>216033634
One of my professors got her PhD when she was in her 60s.

>>216039300
did you know that in Finland we have both the North American and Eurasian beaver

>>216039580
Yeah i do
>turns out theyre actually two different species, woops :-)

>>216039166
I had 1 (one) for a job paying absolutely nothing expecting me to move to another state and pay for my own relocation

Some people just get a late start at life, who gives a shit

>>216039366
what was the joke

>>216039870
On /brit/ anons were posting pics of random women from behind, which were clearly from google with "the prospective gf"
I did the same thing but with a pic of some random stock photo of a little girl from behind and janny got me
IT WAS A BLOODY JOKE

>>216039916
hmm

>>216039820
Education is the best thing ever right? Degrees give you jobs immediately that's why MIT and Harvard grads are unemployed.

>>216038921
>It's OVER for you
>*posts an anime picture*

>>216032905 (OP)
why didnt you learn that stuff in high school though

>>216038388
> but there have been all kinds of attempts to use 4chan as an object of study

Why 4chan?

If you ever notice a black girl in the left corner of the room with her brightness on low it’s me.

>>216032905 (OP)
Yes, and not just in my cunt - it happens all the time and everywhere.
What happens a lot less is people picking themselves back up and continuing on with their life, like you are.

>>216032905 (OP)
That's me. I'm 27 and I'm trying to pass to a International Relations in a public university. I finally had a good score after multiple tries, but I honestly don't know if I might be able to pass(the grade to join is way to high). I'm constantly thinking about ending all and i don't know what I'm doing in my life. I just hope something happens

>>216040067
kstff(kek sent that freak flying)

>>216032905 (OP)
i STEMmaxxed when i should have softskillmaxxed

Yeah. It’s pretty common among people in their 20s and 30s now.

I basically think if you’re in this situation then going to university probably isn’t the best choice but there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with it.

>>216039489
PhD is a terminal research degree. It’s always been relatively normal for people of all ages to do a PhD.

>>216035538
Kek I’m also a former finance bro turned educator. I’m working in a staff position right now. How are teaching wages at a CC? I don’t have a PhD so I can’t teach here. I can only work in staff and research.

The only thing that makes me wince is when I see people going back to college for bad degrees like criminal justice or CS.

>>216044225
Can you define "bad degree"?
I see a lot of talk about how "x is a meme degree", etc but nobody talks about what a good degree is. Is everything other than medicine and law a meme degree?

>>216044305
I mean there are just degrees that statistically lead to decent jobs and degrees that statistically don’t, either because the market isn’t big enough or they only hire trust fund kids or DEI hires or whatever. If you’re going to gamble on a career it is stupid to gamble on a degree with bad stats. One with bad stats is a bad degree. Now, what is a good degree? Good degrees: engineering (not all but most), information science/technology, finance and accounting, medicine, nursing, education. There are a few others that aren’t bad, but those are the only good ones.