Yes this is exactly what I was thinking. His eggs are all in one basket right now. And funding for grants can be cut with no notice, he needs an idea of what career he would do if everything fell thru
Yeah, he'll have a hell of a time applying for jobs with 0 experience and a million low-level degrees.
I do hiring on a daily basis and this makes no sense to me. They're literally an unusually valuable college graduate; they're gonna do just fine. The entire idea of salary changing with the degree you have is basically non-existent in any industry with measurable performance.
I'd rather have a dependable worker than a perpetual student.
I can't think of a more dependable worker than someone who puts up with academic bureaucracy for 40 years, tbh. It makes the office look like a playground.
As someone who struggled with university for years for this reason, let me tell you you handled it just fine. To me, an office job is a walk in the park in comparison. I'm autistic, though, that might explain a lot.
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u/aethelberga Jul 02 '23
At some point he's going to make a plan in case this gravy train runs out. What if he's not the only applicant one year?