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1. Most 18-22 year olds don’t really know what they want to do with their lives at that age. 2. Once they enter the workforce with a degree, they find they did
by garciasn 5y ago
1. Most 18-22 year olds don’t really know what they want to do with their lives at that age.
2. Once they enter the workforce with a degree, they find they didn’t get a degree to necessarily learn how to do the specific set of jobs their degree focused on, but instead are able to do a lot of different jobs.
3. I work in a different field from both my undergrad as well as my graduate degrees. The skills I learned in both are highly sought after in most industries. Too often students aren’t taught how to land interviews in a wide search; they’re convinced they must focus on what their degree was in. This is patently false and schools could do a better job of teaching this to their students.
- notRobot 5y agoIn many countries, your undergraduate degree won't even teach you anything useful that you can actually use on the job, especially when it comes to CS. You need to get a degree because it's a requirement to land even a job interview, but you either have to be self-taught, or you learn on your first (low-paying) job or internship.