College is a luxury good

@Cosmic
Colleague is 3 different things for 3 groups of people
1) Academics.
Academics don't care either about money nor about utility of the degree. They want to "do research", and usually come from families rich enough, not to understand the concept of money. They don't care about the price, so it's a necessity for their future plans of being useless.
2) Perpetual students
People who didn't have the talk with their father, and have no idea what they want to do. They will need the work, and the debt will only hurt them, but they are too dumb to see, that they're being sucked dry.
3) Actually employable people
Good fucking luck mining any utility out of most degrees. The academics and perpetual students don't understand why a programmer degree should actually have some programming classes, when that time could be spend on philosophy, or even ecology class. At least it increases a chance of you getting hired slightly, but you HAVE TO make your own program, and the day you're hired, focus 100 percent just on the job. The classes are worthless at that point.

@Cosmic
So, if it's worthless and unsellable, should I click yes (because it's overpriced) or no (because it's junk)?

@Cosmic
And yes, you guessed it.
It was my university that was at least 60 percent of why I am so radical today :omegalul:

@LukeAlmighty

I am happy with my college choices, having three degrees … there are many people whose choices I laugh at.

@Cosmic
Btw, I was just talking about the fact, that people who go to uni to improve their chances at a good employment get a truly shitty deal.

Do you agree on that point?

@LukeAlmighty

Good deals financially:
- Engineering programs
- Computer Science
- Accounting
- The MBA (NOT the BBA), only if a low cost, credible program, or you were born an elite to benefit from Ivy League

All other degrees are luxury goods

@Cosmic
How is computer science degree a good deal, when 2/3 of the classes are unrelated shit?

@LukeAlmighty @Cosmic

This nigga rides the bus to his shitty sysop job where no one knows his name and he's giving you financial advice.

@book @LukeAlmighty

I am not licensed to give financial advice

I can give spiritual advice, as a reverend of the Universal Life Church.

@Cosmic @LukeAlmighty

I just saw you give financial advice. With my eyes.
@LukeAlmighty @Cosmic

I also have 3 degrees but I don't tell anyone that because that's retarded.

@book @Cosmic
I have none, because I studied for a job.
Once I aced the needed subjects and got the job, the paper became just an overpriced funco pop as far as I'm concerned.

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@Cosmic @LukeAlmighty

I can see, again with my eyes, from the very first post on your profile, that this is a lie.
@LukeAlmighty @Cosmic Better deal is doing community college then get some easy bachelors degree at a state college so HR hags dont trash your resume just for not having one. Spend as little effort and money as possible on higher education.

@Rude @LukeAlmighty

Yes go cheap, but don’t waste time on useless shit, choose something useful like engineering or accounting.

@Cosmic @LukeAlmighty

I would sooner rip a man's trachea out with my bare hands than tell him to go into Computer Science.
I dropped out of college years ago because programming courses are "take this unrelated history class or math class to maybe get a chance at learning programming one day". Everyone winds up dropping out or is eternally stuck in college, I know because everyone I know who went has been to college for years. The only people who idealize it never went to it and think that if only they did this and that they'd be somewhere in life.
im in uni bc my employer is barking up my ass to get a degree
I really dont want to be, but community college is cheap and I have enough resources to pay for it
yeah
im trying lol
if I can get out of corporate hell I could just drop it all together

@theorytoe @LukeAlmighty @pawlicker

Btw, if they are promising a promotion, that is the world’s oldest put down; the promotion is not guaranteed unless you’re in gubment

yeah no, no promotions.
But they aparently really want me to stay, so I can probably exploit that for some barganing ground.
Went to a reputable school, expected to do computing, got Marxist struggle session and sexually harassed instead
I can confirm the latter happened to me at my college. I didn't get struggle sessions but I did wind up pissing off teachers for the fun of it.
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