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There's a lot of "follow your heart", "live your dreams" stuff going on around there. I say work a job that pays, and that you can tolerate, then do what you e

• ekianjo 6y ago
  > I say work a job that pays, and that you can tolerate, then do what you enjoy in your free time. That's not what kids want to hear these days. They want life to be easy, and a big government ready to issue a wide safety net for them if they make bad choices in life. Perpetual childhood.
  • ausbah 6y ago
    older generations always think younger generations are completely rotten for some reason
    • ekianjo 6y ago
      Well I know me and my peers were not asking for that when we were 20. Culture changes.
  • untog 6y ago
    Give me a break. “Kids these days” have their eyes wide open. Just a few decades ago you used to have access to an affordable college education with good jobs on graduation. With a modest level of saving you’d have enough for the deposit on a house within a few years. None of that is true now. It’s drilled into high school kids that they must take on a punishingly expensive college education or they’ll never amount to anything. Then when they graduate they discover an awful jobs market. As for buying a house... better wait for a relative to die and hope they were generous to you in the will because there’s no other way you’re ever going to make that deposit. The idea that young people today and spoiled and rely on handouts is a nonsensical meme.
    • unishark 6y ago
      > “Kids these days” have their eyes wide open. Just a few decades ago you used to have access to an affordable college education with good jobs on graduation. With a modest level of saving you’d have enough for the deposit on a house within a few years. Except if those kids would get degrees in the right areas (like the thread is complaining they aren't), they would absolutely be able to get excellent jobs upon graduation. The unemployment rate in engineering has been almost nil for years. Even fields like civil and biomedical engineering, previously at the bottom of engineering in terms of prospects and pay, are now a lock for jobs, with employers desperate to hire anyone they can get. And of course computer science is now doing even better than all of them despite being much easier, frankly.
      • reducesuffering 6y ago
        Further, GP notes > "they must take on a punishingly expensive college education or they’ll never amount to anything." Except that high school graduates have the option to do 2 years of community college (~5k) and 2 years at a state school (~13k). Generally possible to most while living at home for no additional rent. CS jobs are in high supply and 100k+ out of college. The college cost would be paid off in a year. Then there's the fact that many positions are not requiring a college education at all.
        • arvinsim 6y ago
          > Then there's the fact that many positions are not requiring a college education at all. Tell that to companies who still are filtering applicants based on their college education.
          • reducesuffering 6y ago
            Of course there are. There are still many companies that aren't and software engineers are still in very high demand.
        • TheSpiceIsLife 6y ago