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Graduated in 2020, and I was shocked by how few of my peers had done any research into the type of work and compensation that would be available to them upon gr
by DiggyJohnson 4y ago
Graduated in 2020, and I was shocked by how few of my peers had done any research into the type of work and compensation that would be available to them upon graduation.
No, I'm not referring to the issue of 17-20 years olds choosing a degree path with little awareness of post-graduation opportunities, but for upperclassmen 0-2 years out from graduation. On the other hand, I can report a disproportionate awareness / interest in academia and grad school, but even in these cases I still rarely felt that these peers saw graduate school as a means to an end, looking beyond the masters degree, but more as a funnel, "the next to do I guess, idk."
- throwayyy479087 4y agoI know a lot of people who go a Masters because they didn't want to get a job, then never worked in their field.
- DiggyJohnson 4y agoPrecisely. I was trying to avoid sounding overly cynical of my own peer group, but there’s a lot of this. And as I was trying to get at in my main comment, I think it has to do with a tendency to avoid looking multiple steps towards questions like “what am I actually going to do with my education?”
- kurupt213 4y agoThat just makes the interviewer wonder why they didn’t get the terminal degree… unless the masters is the terminal degree (like an MFA)