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Big surprise, the jobs that pay more attract more people than the jobs that pay less. My partner has a bio undergrad degree, she works in a field having nothing

by bavent 3y ago

Big surprise, the jobs that pay more attract more people than the jobs that pay less. My partner has a bio undergrad degree, she works in a field having nothing to do with it because she didn’t want to pursue masters/phd.

al_borland 3y ago
I worked with a guy in a data center who had a degree in geology. Computers paid better I guess, so he transitioned over.
- eastbound 3y ago
  Makes me question our decentralized assignation of studies. With communist centralized planning, the country makes a 5-year plan and students are assigned to the fields in demand, with the (high) risk that the central planner was wrong (because his pay doesn’t align with accurate planning). With decentralized capitalism, students decide for themselves, agree to be in debt for life if they’re wrong, attempt to collect information among a jungle of commercial bullshit from for-profit universities and marketing, so that they’re very often wrong as well, and choose a field of study at the junction between interesting, in demand (as perceived), and nice pictures on the uni brochure (principal criteria in my opinion). Then they convert to IT anyway. I wonder whether our acceptance for this system isn’t just that we blame the student for having chosen wrong, relieving us from feeling that we’re responsible for their debt and horrific life conditions.
  - robertlagrant 3y ago
    With communist central planning the world lost about as many people to starvation and murder by their own governments as were killed in WW2 in an actual enormous war. It might be worth letting people make their own decisions rather than forcing them to be what you want them to be.
  - al_borland 3y ago
    There may be some value from having those different backgrounds spread across various industries. If everyone in IT was a CS major, there would be one primary view on how things work and what CS can solve. Bringing in other points of view can lead to more interesting solutions and solving problems that may have otherwise gone unsolved. The intersections of different disciplines are where a lot of innovation happens.
pohuing 3y ago
Programming and related careers have to have the lowest entry as well. I know a lot more people who made the switch from other tertiary educated disciplines to IT than the other way around. And there's no way the state will employ me to model and plan their dikes with my Cs degree.

by bavent 3y ago

al_borland 3y ago

I worked with a guy in a data center who had a degree in geology. Computers paid better I guess, so he transitioned over.

eastbound 3y ago
Makes me question our decentralized assignation of studies. With communist centralized planning, the country makes a 5-year plan and students are assigned to the fields in demand, with the (high) risk that the central planner was wrong (because his pay doesn’t align with accurate planning). With decentralized capitalism, students decide for themselves, agree to be in debt for life if they’re wrong, attempt to collect information among a jungle of commercial bullshit from for-profit universities and marketing, so that they’re very often wrong as well, and choose a field of study at the junction between interesting, in demand (as perceived), and nice pictures on the uni brochure (principal criteria in my opinion). Then they convert to IT anyway. I wonder whether our acceptance for this system isn’t just that we blame the student for having chosen wrong, relieving us from feeling that we’re responsible for their debt and horrific life conditions.
- robertlagrant 3y ago
  With communist central planning the world lost about as many people to starvation and murder by their own governments as were killed in WW2 in an actual enormous war. It might be worth letting people make their own decisions rather than forcing them to be what you want them to be.
- al_borland 3y ago
  There may be some value from having those different backgrounds spread across various industries. If everyone in IT was a CS major, there would be one primary view on how things work and what CS can solve. Bringing in other points of view can lead to more interesting solutions and solving problems that may have otherwise gone unsolved. The intersections of different disciplines are where a lot of innovation happens.

pohuing 3y ago

Programming and related careers have to have the lowest entry as well. I know a lot more people who made the switch from other tertiary educated disciplines to IT than the other way around. And there's no way the state will employ me to model and plan their dikes with my Cs degree.