Thread 520180251

I notice a lot of cruelty from Boomers and many right-wingers in general toward students who aren't able to find jobs in their fields.

>You majored in English? Haha, dipshit, you should have studied computer science!

But then compsci grads run into trouble or face layoffs, the cruelty does not stop.

>Haha, you majored in computer science? Dipshit. Why didn't you study English and go to law school or something?

Where does this hatred come from? It seems bizarre that younger people are getting so much hatred for trying to get degrees to hopefully get better jobs, but then they get mocked if they fail.

Also, be honest - will network security and engineering still exist in 3 years, or should I study something else to avoid getting raped by AI and mocked by Boomers for failing to predict the future?

>>520180251 (OP)
Do what you love faggot or Mammon will consume your soul

>>520180251 (OP)
Boomers are the most retarded, impervious and incompetent. In actually civilization is a shitshow and so is modern life its structurally impossible to find security and constancy in it, it treats you as statistic not as a being your person ends are not imperative, only the political ones are. Only in small rare frames of history have we seen a close to ideal system of living, this is not one of those times not here or generally in the world. Ideal civilization still remains an ideal

>>520182357
>Boomers are the most retarded, impervious and incompetent.
People
>In actually
Actuality

>>520182458
>its
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>>520180251 (OP)

What

was

your

major?

thats why im a NEET.
my parents made me immediately go to community College after high-school. Made me go for an associates. I wanted to take a year off and figure out what to go into. But no.
They signed me up for loans and shit and I had no idea how that shit worked.
Now im 37, have tried to work like 30 different minimum wage jobs and I can never make it work.. never customers or the work itself..just shitty managers and co workers. many of those jobs I was the only white person so they treated me particularly shitty.
Every time I want to go back to school (i have 2 years worth of credits) I look into a degree/career and find out its absolutely useless. Always 100,000 people competing for 1k jobs, bachelor's degrees arent good enough they want a masters, or something similarly stupid.
Every. single. fucking. thing. ive found. even. remotely. fucking. interesting.

Im too old to be in school forever. I didnt find out until a couple of years ago that some degrees dont require associates first. this whole time my parents insisted to me (and nobody around me said otherwise..ever.) 4 years general studies + 2 - 4 years of specialized for bachelor's.
Apparently some bach. degrees you dont need an associates first.
Ive wasted away so much of my life. The system is so seriously fucked and my boomer parents are to blame at least a bit for my situation.
the ONNNLLLLY degrees with ANY stable security and decent pay are in the medical field. Maybe agriculture if youre rural. Thats it.
I should have just been an x ray tech.

>>520182664
I have to decide this year. I was leaning toward compsci with a network engineering focus, but the market for a lot of compsci grads looks bad. I'm trying not to get wrecked by picking the 'wrong' major.

>>520182988
>Now im 37, have tried to work like 30 different minimum wage jobs
And never got a pay raise, promotion, or learned any useful skills or met a single friend that allowed you to advance into a better job?
>The system is so seriously fucked
Which system is that? Why do you suppose that system only keeps you a dumb loser forever and other people are finding success in life?
>my boomer parents are to blame
That's the only possible explanation for you doing fuck-all with your 20 years of adult life.

>>520184136
>compsci with a network engineering focus
Likely pretty saturated unless you're very good at it and do a good job networking so that you'll have friends, frat-buddies, or something to give you a leg up.
Not sure what state you're in, but around here towns are pretty desperate for tax assessors, municipal accountants are also very hard to find. Surveyors are also in short supply and generally booked out for months.
You should talk to adults with jobs and see what sort of things people are saying "man, I wish I could find someone to _________". that's usually a good sign that it's something that's in demand. Anything that deals with government at any level is typically more secure in that there's often citizenship requirements and licensing needed which precludes hiring imported mud races with fake credentials.

>>520180251 (OP)
On /pol/ I think a lot of it is Eglin AFB demoralization shills because they quickly brigade new threads then disappear and always mention how you should have joined the military. Pretty transparent when you notice the pattern

>>520180251 (OP)
>studied the wrong major
>didn't get an internship
>didn't do enough internships
>not enough certs
>no work experience

The barriers are just indicative of the state of the economy. Bootcamps were placing 90% of their cohorts in the field 5 years ago, now senior engineers are competing for mid, mid is competing for junior and most grads can't get a foot in. Educating yourself is just about the only thing you can do while conditions hopefully improve.

>>520180251 (OP)
Well boomers got to work in factory that payed them well and were able to afford homes

>>520186759
It's because the western world gave up it's industrial base for easily replaceable service jobs. Most service work can be uplifted in a single night without much issue. However industrial work is a total nightmare to uplift and replace.

Service work is great when the economy is roaring, but the moment the economy goes to shit, service jobs are the first to be cut. We have already seen that with Tech being completely gutted in the last 3 years.

>>520184921
Only the Russians who work here are terrified of some imaginary propagandists from a Florida military base. They're just projecting their own dishonest and deliberate political manipulations.

>>520180251 (OP)
After 2008 and understanding that you cannot default on student loans since they are backed by the Federal government and your debt is traded around like a mortgage. I knew college was a scam and the schools were not incentivized to actually teach you anything. I am still poor like everyone else, but at least I did not waste my time and energy by racking up debt and being forced to work shitty jobs just to keep up on interest payments. This country is fake and gay whos economic engine is driven by debt mules.