this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
862 points (99.1% liked)

Science Memes

11081 readers
2718 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.

Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
862
sad laughing noises (mander.xyz)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
60 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Me @22: Boy, IT work sure looks fun and I love computers already so let me take out some student loans to become a cybersecurity specialist!

Me @29: Retail is fine too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Getting a degree to work in IT seems weird to me, but I was admining before IT classes existed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We're from a different era my dude. These days it's all analysts, architects and data scientist.

Who can't do jack shit without guys like you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Architects where I work don't have degrees, they're programmers who have shown they understand a significant chunk of our enormous system (government IT)

Analysts are a mixed bag. Some have relevant education, others have relevant experience

Data scientists seem to all be appropriately degreed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Except now we have to find jobs through connections because we aren’t getting past HR filters.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Same. Sometimes I wish I had instead spent all the money I saved and blew on college on anything else. I could have lost it all gambling. I could have spent it all on strippers. Or drugs. I could have bought a helicopter and thrown fistfulls of $100 bills out the window and my money would have still been better spent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sitting on 18k in debt. I'd actually have a car instead of half a degree and a thumbs up from ECPI. Casino would be good too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yet they blame all the violence on marijuana.. What do they expect people in this situation to do, die? Fuck our broken society.

If they aren't going to make college classes less bullshit they least the could do is make them free. Whether I pass a class or not has always depended more on how reasonable they want to be about it.

If you're paying $100k just to be allowed to get a job, you should be entitled to that or a full refund regardless of anything else. Fuck everyone in charge of this joke of a society.