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On the other hand, $835 a week is over $20/hour, which to my blue-collar redneck-steeped brain, seems like pretty damned good for somebody with no education - a
by thrower123 8y ago
On the other hand, $835 a week is over $20/hour, which to my blue-collar redneck-steeped brain, seems like pretty damned good for somebody with no education - and a partial college education is not worth a flying fuck, because the way things are structured, it's typically all core high school++ courses for the first year or two, before going into actually field-specific training.
- moate 8y agoYou sound delightful. Also, there's plenty of associate degrees out there which represent a college education, non-4-year degree. Many of those represent trade/union type jobs (mechanics and many other types of technicians) with good pay rates
- dang 8y agoPlease don't cross into personal attack on HN. "Be kind. Don't be snarky." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- lallysingh 8y agoMy first year was programming and vector calculus. Second year was operations systems internals and differential equations. And this wasn't even a top tier school.
- thrower123 8y agoComputer Science and Engineering are more trade-focused programs that provide real value. Liberal arts are inherently fuzzy, and worthless economically without the paperwork that signifies completion.