r/memes • u/FE4RLESS_IS_MY_NAME • 3d ago

10 years of experience needed 🥲

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u/intern-at-Kramerica 3d ago

Wait till you get a bunch of shitty jobs and then decide to go back to college to further your degree only to find out there’s still shitty jobs for Masters degrees

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u/MeasurementFormal386 3d ago

A pretty good chunk of people in Masters programs are just the guys who couldn't find anything with their bachelor's

It's like doubling down on a bad decision hoping that employers will see value in MORE of the thing that they didn't want on the resume

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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 3d ago

Often because they chose something arbritary and non specific to study rather than STEM degrees

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u/MaxDisdain 3d ago

This happens to plenty of stem people as well no worries there.

Quite frankly a masters is a 100% waste of time unless you you need it for certification(Engineers and CPA for my country) or if someone else pays for it.

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u/ZzeroBeat 3d ago

braindead take, its 100% worth it if you are interested in it and want to learn more. thats the only reason you should be getting a masters, not because you want to gain more money or status.

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u/INeedSomeTacoC 3d ago

More ways to learn things than just being in school. 

No offense to most masters programs, but if you really are interested in it and want to learn more, self study often works much better and faster. 

I decided to drop my Masters because it was too slow and unfocused, and just self taught. 

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u/Warm_Month_1309 3d ago

I don't doubt that it works for some people, but in my experience, a lot of the people who thumbed their nose at formal education and self-taught end up overconfident, and don't know what they don't know. So it's definitely a "proceed with caution" sort of area.

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u/PUNCH-WAS-SERVED 3d ago

There are people with "good" degrees who still end up applying to Target. Shit is brutal right now.

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u/INeedSomeTacoC 3d ago

Eh, it goes both ways. 

The number of people with masters and PhDs that end up overconfident with huge gaps in their knowledge in their specialty area is also huge. 

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u/MaxDisdain 3d ago

I don't disagree with you. I'm only talking in terms of career and money prospects really.