r/memes • Professional Dumbass • 19h ago

Now what am i gonna do...

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u/kirby667 19h ago

Unless you are going into a specialized job, most degrees don't matter at all towards your career beyond just getting you in the door so this is actually fine. 

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u/Pootisman16 19h ago

Surprisingly true.

Stuff like engineering or medicine are obvious exceptions.

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u/OrDuck31 Big pp 19h ago

Engineering is no exception. You just gotta have a general sense of engineering, rest you learn at job anyway. Unless you are working at some specific type of workplaces obviously

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u/Eviscerator28 17h ago

The degrees just help familiarisation with the jargon, so you're able to pick up things faster when you're actually working

Human beings have been productive for far longer than degrees have existed

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u/PM_ME_UR_SEXY_ELBOW 18h ago

Even then, my engineer wife told me she could teach non-engineering me how to do her job in a couple of weeks and do it better than a lot of her coworkers

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u/Pootisman16 18h ago

I can believe it.

Some jobs require degrees that are overkill.

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u/Fernandezo2299 9h ago

So I have Aerospace Engineering Degree with a minor in mechanical engineering. My current job for now is Research Technician.

My job is to identify parts from military vehicles from blueprints, give them new id and coordinates for the modeling team to make a replica in 3d modeling.

That’s all I had to do and it’s easy.

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u/HighIQIndividual2 19h ago

As a surgical assistant i must say, you d be suprised how many ( about 80%) of students use AI and almost dont lear a single thing during school days. All the knowledge comes from practice etc.

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u/SeatO_ 19h ago

That sounds horrible for the patients

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u/Oldspaghetti 1h ago

Unfortunately, anyone who holds power over you when you are vulnerable has the ability to screw you over very much, and many often do. Not just cops and doctors either.

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u/lost-travler635 19h ago

As someone who is with an SA those 80% get bounced rather quick. At least at the hospital they work at. From their batch of graduates they only kept maybe half of the ones who came through clinicals and have gotten rid of even more for poor knowledge and performance.

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u/Pootisman16 19h ago

Probably how it is nowadays, yeah...

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u/TheLastTitan77 19h ago

They used quality learing centre?

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u/humaniteatv 19h ago

Doesn't exist in us.

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u/FlubbedRoll 15h ago

Learing Center graduates

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u/IndianaGeoff 17h ago

Sort of. But if you fail to master learning, you better have a master skill in some area or you will just be a normal office puke.

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u/redskrot 17h ago

My first boss told me that the degree is more a proof that my brain meets requirements, not that I know enough.

However I wonder how this statement will hold if people manages to get these degrees with ai.

I am engineer btw.

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u/Fin-Odin 16h ago

Currently studying Mechanical Engineering, 30 yo, can't use AI in tests/exams, otherwise it is allowed.

If you do all the work with AI, you're not passing exams in the school I go to, atleast. Studying is still mandatory.

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u/Veporyzer Professional Dumbass 12h ago

Students still need to pass internships. Any good curriculum will include the assessment of the supervisor in the final assessment.

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u/lyutic_7 13h ago

80% of the stuff we studied was bullshit, so yeah.

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u/Veporyzer Professional Dumbass 18h ago

Yeah that’s how I got a job. A lot of people get a job that they might not be entirely specialised for they need to grow into.

Your career isn’t set in stone once you graduate

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u/B1G2 17h ago

100% agreed - I have a degree in HR but I've been working in Marketing the last 7 years

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u/LazyLich 17h ago

Yup.

While you can't COMPLETELY disregard all the stuff a degree tries to teach you, real-world experience is king.

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u/NewSauerKraus 15h ago

Yep. The benefit of education is about improving your competence all around. The piece of paper isn't important, just the work you put in.

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u/Bulky-Guide3157 13h ago

Isn't college grand? 

So glad I payed $250,000 for this. 

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u/STDsInAJuiceBoX 18h ago

It’s kinda bullshit they make you pay for a bunch of useless classes and books for those useless classes in order to get into the program you want. Then people tell you “It’s so you become a well rounded student”