Overrated

[Shirley]

I'd say college degrees in general.

I don't disagree with you entirely, but

2/14/22 Typical young workers with college degrees now outearn their high-school-graduate counterparts by a record-high $22,000 per year.

According to new data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the median annual wage for a full-time worker ages 22 to 27 with a high school diploma is $30,000. For a full-time worker with a bachelor's degree, it's $52,000.

The difference marks a pay gap of $22,000 — the highest on record with the New York Fed, which tracks earnings going back to 1990...

[KUTradition]

as with any degree, it largely depends on what it is and what you do with it

[Deleted User 863]

Money is overrated

[pdub]

It definitely depends on the person.
And you're probably right that the average kid needs that structured environment to grow and learn.
I'm thinking some specific fields.

[pdub]

Money is overrated

/thread

[Mjl]

It definitely depends on the person.
And you're probably right that the average kid needs that structured environment to grow and learn.
I'm thinking some specific fields.

Any high schooler thinking about coding I advise not to go to college

[PhDhawk]

Golf

[pdub]

Right.
Not that college wouldn't help - it would - but if it's a four year degree, you're probably better off just finding an unpaid internship for a year, subscribing to online coding courses and learning that way.

[ousdahl]

Money is overrated

/thread

Supposedly, Qusdahl has plans for a moneyless society, but let’s face it, one wants to listen to they/them.

[ousdahl]

And yea, in many ways college is overrated. At least most of the actual academics.

It still blows my mind that most of the most difficult courses were the 100 level gen-ed stuff, not the 400 level professional stuff.

But I ended up pursuing a bullshit degree, so my perception is skewed.

[japhy]

It still blows my mind that most of the most difficult courses were the 100 level gen-ed stuff, not the 400 level professional stuff.

But I ended up pursuing a bullshit degree, so my perception is skewed.

If you weren't taking something like Fluid Mechanics or Thermo Dynamics or Structural Analysis at the 400 level then we can agree, you weren't getting a professional degree.

Like the career that comes after, you get out of college what you put into it.

[japhy]

normalcy

[DCHawk1]

Windfall profit taxes

[ousdahl]

Man, all I asked is what they were, but considering how triggered you guys are acting, maybe we should discuss whether they’re actually underrated, at least for anyone whose world view extends further than “shareholder value”


…and on the pols bored, of course.

[ousdahl]

It still blows my mind that most of the most difficult courses were the 100 level gen-ed stuff, not the 400 level professional stuff.

But I ended up pursuing a bullshit degree, so my perception is skewed.

If you weren't taking something like Fluid Mechanics or Thermo Dynamics or Structural Analysis at the 400 level then we can agree, you weren't getting a professional degree.

Like the career that comes after, you get out of college what you put into it.

Yea, I wish I had studied something as interesting as thermodynamics or structural analysis.

But instead, I went to business school…which is to say, I made the grave mistake of listening to my parents, who applied immense pressure to 18-22yo ousdahl to go to business school even tho he had no interest in doing so, under the guise that things like thermodynamics and structural analysis don’t matter, cuz the only thing that does matter is money, money money money, and the best way to make money is business school.

For real Japhy, you think I became this cynical just for the lulz?

[MICHHAWK]

You have blamed everything and everyone. It was only a matter of time until we got around to your parents.

[twocoach]

normalcy

Normal is for boring people.

[twocoach]

Money is overrated

If you have it.

[ousdahl]

You have blamed everything and everyone. It was only a matter of time until we got around to your parents.

shut up dad.

[ousdahl]

Speaking of, here’s another thing that’s overrated:

Staind.


and possibly nu-metal in general