sometimes you can't even get a shitty job

Congrats on your degree, good luck finding a server or bartending job.

Students: I want to study science and make the world a better place!

Modern society: Rolls a die. Best we can do is Burger King.

Took me 5 years!

OH, and once you actually get a good job in the USA -- you can get laid off at any time for no reason and it's completely out of your control.

I'm honestly glad I had "low" aspirations going into college. My goal was always to be a teacher so I never expected good pay and therefore can't be dissapointed.

Graduated with a biochemistry degree. Got rejected from everywhere I applied including, of all things, Taco Bell. Eventually took up the Queen's shilling

Those universities should be sued for decieving kids into lifelong debt slavery on false promises of employment with their degrees.

It is so bad people are turning to club penguin

Highly recommend trades. Plumbing, electrician, heck, friends friend is an elevator maintenance/repair something and their company has more work than they can keep up with.

Anytime myself or any family member needs an electrician or plumber, they're backed up for days or weeks or months.

A college degree is the minimum requirement. You don't get shit with the minimum.

To add insult to injury; I dropped out of college twice. I still don't have a degree, actually going back to try to get one or rather be a career student lol. But somehow I worked in education, managed a company of 300+, and spent the last 10 years repairing 10k-40k espresso machines. I guess I just was in the right place and the right time.

Guess what! You'll get an even worse job if you don't have a college degree!

Too true

so what you do is research what jobs are needed in your area and do a degree in that

you have to keep up on this sadly all 4 years

and even then you need to be willing to move and should probably take a generally applicable field like engineering

all of this really requires some kind of support group at the age of 17/18

so just be born rich

beyond that you have to actually focus on learning the material at the oversped rate likely to the exclusion of anything remotely fun

that said there are multiple job openings in my area for system engineers starting post 4 year degree about 100k

Me after an easy ass interview for a job that requires no degree, but get rejected anyways !!!!!

Heather Trott from EastEnders. That sparked some weird nostalgia.

Never even liked EastEnders.

This meme is me but thinking I had job security for working somewhere for over twenty years. Now I’m laid off for almost a year and this job market sucks with only niche it support experience. Moving to trades isn’t feasible at my age and I’ve no idea what the future holds with AI in the tech industry ands knowledge/office jobs in general.

I made the same discovery in 1976 lol.

uh..you can't do anything and you know fuck all after 4 years of college.