Computer science graduates have one of the highest rates of unemployment
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MissJinx@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Look, as a 40yo I have to advise new kids to yes, do what you want, but research the market first. If you want to do Philosophy to be a teacher great, but if not mayber try other areas like socialology or history that have a slight better market…Or just learn IT because that’s the future and you are never out of a job
Revan343@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Really? I mean I’m not in the US but I never had a problem.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Like currently, in the US; there was an article about it floating around Lemmy a couple days ago. Overstated from a decade+ of telling everyone to go into compsci, and now companies are cutting staff
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
or just study what you want and get job skills separately.
Kage520@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Not really. I’m not sure how it ended up so rounded, but getting a degree is more than just “get skills for the job”. When you are getting any bachelor’s degree, you also have to take a certain amount of history, music appreciation, etc, heck my school even required lifetime fitness. It’s also learning alongside your peers to suffer together, I mean work together.
Also, for something like engineering, you don’t want a job to teach the basics of safely designing a building. You want that in school so when your job asks you to do something dumb, you can explain to them why it is unsafe and correctly refuse.
I like how my friend put it: “You COULD go to a technical school to get a job, but you wouldn’t be very interesting to talk to.”
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
that’s not true. maybe you were required to do that, but every school is different and maybe have entire dropped the trad liberal arts or general ed requirements. my college had no such requirements you should take whatever you wanted as long as you had a major.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
This is really the type of scholarship you would expect in a capitalist society.
Essentially, big corpos would scout HS and undergrad students for prospective employees and offer them tuition and a job contract, with payback requirements if they don’t graduate and fulfill the contract. Pretty much the same deal and college/pro sports.
Despite sounding dystopian AF, it still somehow sounds better than what we have now.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
This often cited study from 2012 reported that something like only 27% of those with bachelor’s degrees were working in a field related to their major. It’s over 10 years old but there’s no reason to assume that the general broad principles don’t still apply in the modern economy.
University educations have never been intended to be mere vocational skills programs. Being able to research, read, and write critically are important broad skills that are useful in life (including in the workforce), and most jobs out in the world don’t actually require significant specialized education.
People who work in sales, management, design, logistics, event planning, contracting, marketing, advertising, finance, real estate, and things like that don’t need particular degrees to do those jobs, but most of the white collar world has degrees. There’s nothing wrong with majoring in English literature and then going into software sales, or majoring in history and going into logistics, or majoring in philosophy and becoming a journalist. It’s not like you get a free pass to stop learning once you’re in an industry, and keeping up means learning things that weren’t even known when you were in college.
It’s liberating when you realize that the choices you made at 18 don’t box you in for life. You have the flexibility to make career changes into different industries, different roles, different cities, and different employers when you realize that most jobs can be learned as you go.
And most jobs suck, so it’s worth finding something that fits your strengths and ignores your weaknesses, so that it’s just easier for you to do.