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Congratulations on your masters that’s something to be very proud of! What kind of career are you interested in?
Barista
The frustrating thing is advanced degrees can make it harder to get jobs outside of your degree.
Within your area of expertise too, even. In my field, Ph.Ds are viewed as being overqualified with not enough field experience
If my degree is not relevant to what I’m applying to I will either selectively reveal it or leave it out entirely for this reason.
This was taught to me this was too
You know you can decide what to put on your resume, right?
Retirement is the cliff you jump off at the end where you get to enjoy a few moments of bliss before you splatter into the ground.
I love this
Nidhogg
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Might be a hot take but I think both high school and university are (typically) much more difficult and stressful than career work. Constantly having to process, assimilate, and retain new information at a breakneck pace; perpetual assignments and exams which have huge educational, social, and monetary repercussions upon failure; all this while also having to find a way to earn enough money to survive on minimum wage shit jobs with zero job security or recourse for poor treatment.
Yes, by the time you’re employed you probably have way more responsibilities both inside and outside the workplace which can make life more stressful, but no workplace I’ve been in has challenged me nearly so much as hs and uni.
You know, there’s some validity in that. College was hard as fuck; and half the stress was the jobs to keep living and going to class, but 3 jobs makes for little study and sleep. It’s a race to the bottom where you may get a degree, or may die of malnourishment.
High school and university are also the times where you’re the least interested in learning. Young people are far more likely to forego learning in favor of partying gaming etc.
Also I had a lot of trouble with assignments. It was always such a disconnected mess of random things that had no clear goal. The goals were decided on the spot by the teacher and the focus was more on pleasing them rather than learning.
At least with work it’s simple. Here’s your task, go and do it. There’s no 1000 random little things to keep track of.
School and uni can be easier than work because you can rely on yourself and your intellect and work put in equals success in a way.
Work is 90 percent dealing with shitty people who should go to therapy but go to work instead. The burnout rate with work is be much higher if I had to guess.
you just have a shitty job or a shitty manager.
i’ve had many jobs and none of them were like that, outside of a few shitty retail jobs I had.
good companies aren’t like that. they are professional and people leave their personal shit at the door. and anyone who brings their personal shit into the workplace is terminated.
Now it’s time to get your hands dirty with just about everything that comes your way and build up that experience. You’re not meant to be a master of your field, you’re meant to be able to think intelligently about your subject matter
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I had to climb up the employment mountain before I was able to start getting any kind of degree
Ha!
- school
- army
- college habit and bankruptcy before degree
- poor but working from contact in college
- work work work work work work <- i am here
But hey. (Find something to) love (in) what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life.
Did you find something to love in what you do?
Employment is more like a slide down into a valley filled with sewage, with the next slope out labelled “surviving to retirement”.
There’s a short downward slope at the peak, and then it just drops straight down. Assuming you don’t just die at your desk at work.
A PhD will delay the last panel a few years.
Don’t forget the post doc!
Eh, first few years. Eventually you’ll be the old guy others ask for advice. Provided that you don’t get bored and look for a different position.
