Anyone else seriously regret their degrees?

[Anonymous No.8835664]

> BA in Poli. Sci. from top 50 school
> MA in Professional Comm. from top 200 school
> Self-taught HTML/CSS/JS and make decent money as front end dev.
> never used, and probably never will use, anything I learned in university

my pops fronted the $$ for my BA and the MA was paid for thru a scholarship, but goddamn it i wasted 6 years of my life.

[Anonymous No.8835805]

>>8835664
So... You didn't consider what job prospects and starting salary you'd be looking at for the degrees you chose? Must be nice being rich...

[Anonymous No.8836436]

>>8835664
What did you use to learn your languages? Anywhere free that’s good? Probably what I’m gonna need to end up doing

[Anonymous No.8836460]

>wasted 4 years playing vidya instead of interning while getting my CS degree
>uni taught in a different programming language each semester and didnt have any side projects
>can barely program 5 years later
>unemployed now and if were still in a bear market in 6 months im just gonna an hero

[Anonymous No.8836491]

>>8836460
>CS degree
>2.1 gpa, no internships
>send out a zillion job applications in senior year
>find job months before graduation and been working for almost 2 years now

There is still hope.

[Anonymous No.8836517]

CS degree + 3 years experience

160k in salary and bonuses

seattle isn't the greatest but you can save a lot if you're not retarded. targeting late 40s retirement

wagecucking is alright

[Anonymous No.8836520]

>>8835664
>wasted 4 years getting a degree in chem. engineering
>took forever to get a full time job
>started working in a field that isnt even related to my studies (well kinda related)
>didnt need any qualifications for it, just previous experience with coal
>getting paid slightly more than most of the people i graduated with, granted i work one day on the weekend
>shit hours and no chance of climbing up to the management ladder

im worse off in the long run, ill still be wagecucking while all of my friends move into higher positions and getting paid way more, oh and actually have decent hours. my job is pretty stress free though. i cant find the dead inside wojak so ill post this instead

[Anonymous No.8836559]

>computer engineering major
>majority of the classes I take (hardware) will be useless because I will probably end up doing software
>should’ve just done comp sci

[Anonymous No.8836642]

>>8836460
Be willing to relocate you fucking goober go outside fuck

[Anonymous No.8836661]

>>8836520
get a few years experience and then start looking for a new gig

[Anonymous No.8836677]

>>8836491
what job?

>>8836559
what kinda computer hardware jobs are out there for a CS major? ive always like hardware better than software, but IT is boring and i dont have any engineering experience

>>8836642
i live in a city, but dont have a car

[Anonymous No.8836718]

>>8836677
a lot, but those are all taken by oldies who've been working in the field since the 90's

[Anonymous No.8836738]

>>8836661
i was thinking about, but it would be fly in fly out work in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. the pay will definitely be better but it wont be simple wagecuckery, it will be advanced wagecuckery

[Anonymous No.8836769]

>>8836677
.net developer

[Anonymous No.8836780]

>>8836677
From what I know CS majors don’t do hardware, that’s computer architecture/digital logic design which is what computer engineers learn. But the job market for that is small and any open jobs are competitive so I’ll probably end up doing software like everyone else. Sad part is I have to learn a ton of new languages that I was never taught like python, js, rust, and sql

[Anonymous No.8836821]

>Pharmacy degree
>take 5 years to train and accredit myself as a pharmacist
>hate it

Welp, don't do specialized degrees folks. Back to the drawing board

[Anonymous No.8836832]

>>8836821
>train 5 years to watch people in good health slowly fuck themselves more and more every day and taking larger doses of poisons everytime you see them
what a wonderful rewarding job indeed

[Anonymous No.8836894]

I'm 21 now and wagecucked straight out of school. I make $22 /hr for non-strenuous work and have saved about 33k. While my endurance and work ethic have improvent, my study ethic is basically non-existent. I have some coursework that I can tackle on the side to improve my wage but my progress is incredibly slow. I have discipline in other areas of life like gym & abstenance from reckless drug use (friends go pretty hard) but I've yet to cultivate a good drive for studying. I've ordered some books though to try & improve, I think it'll be good reading something that's not a screen.

How do you uni guys do it? Life's pretty comfy but I worry about my mind not being challenged. I fell for the 'avoid university' meme pretty hard when I was 18 on /pol/.

[Anonymous No.8836930]

>>8836894
You can coast pretty easily through college without having to study desu. I'm graduating next month and I've really only had to do hard core study days for a few classes my entire time in college.

[Anonymous No.8836949]

>>8836520
about to do 1st year chem eng exams

fuck me

[Anonymous No.8837096]

Can you just get a programming job from self teaching code even if you have a BA then? I'm from the UK so it might be different to the US

[Anonymous No.8837141]

>>8836832
T. Will die at 50 because "meds are kike lies"

[Anonymous No.8837229]

>>8837141
stop shitposting, meds are not lies, most are ok, but those are prescribed shit, which are for a reason due to the numerous complication with each substances, and most of the time they trade a problem for another, merely hiding the symptoms (i'm speaking here about anti-depre, sleep pills, and anything that has anything to do with your brain overall are mostly poison to some extent)

[Anonymous No.8837261]

>>8837229
Stfu nigger benzos are god tier.
Next you will tell me drugs are bad?

[Anonymous No.8837264]

>>8836894
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

[Anonymous No.8837305]

>>8837261
>deliberately slows his brain
>when he could be taking experitemtal racetam to boost him brain up instead on tripping like a retard
this is why you will never make it

[Anonymous No.8837316]

>>8837096
I would be interested to know this too. Unsure if my chemistry degree is going to get me a good job.

[Anonymous No.8837461]

> brainlet
> 3 semesters of computer science in uni
> dismissed
> gamble with last bits of student loans in crypto
> make $64000
> lose it all and now have $2700
> working a $10.50/hr job 5 days a week now

[Anonymous No.8837474]

>>8835664
>HTML/CSS/JS

[Anonymous No.8837486]

>26
>no degree
>self taught programmer
>only experience is writing iOS apps and a shitty ETH pyramid which got cloned by the pajeets
at least I made money

Can I get a junior dev job with some basic dev skills? I’m not great desu. Willing to relocate :’)

[Anonymous No.8837494]

>>8837486
Rajeesh
My friend
Thanks for the ez money

[Anonymous No.8837513]

How do you get a programmer job without a degree OP? I dropped out of university and plan on self learning as well.

[Anonymous No.8837699]

>History degree.

I realise too late that finance is what I'd really like to do.

The plan is to move to china or russia to teach english then find a cushy token british job at a corporation

[Anonymous No.8837886]

Heh thought this thread would die and was pleasantly surprised to see it on the first page of Mimi with a bunch of replies.

This is OP posting from my phone.

Regarding doing front-end w/o a degree: im self employed so im not working for anyone. Good marketing takes you pretty far in front end. I made a website showing examples of my work and left contact info for business inquiries. Now handle the front end for about 10 small-medium size companies.

To be fair I do work with node.js as well and all that comes with it, plus for a few companies i take them from step 1 in terms of getting a website - literally, domain, hosting, etc.

My eye for styling i think is what got me here - my websites are stunning IMO and im not one to brag at all.

[Anonymous No.8837921]

>>8837886
Truly the strongest redpill is that optics (presentation/marketing/whatever) are a powergap above skill in terms of importance for success.
It takes a savant to rely on skill alone