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Historically, the point of a university is not to be a jobs training program.
by __loam 10mo ago
Historically, the point of a university is not to be a jobs training program.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 10mo agoI'm not gonna recommend them to anyone then, because the number one problem most of my friends have is having crappy jobs
- beepbooptheory 10mo agoYoure not going to recommend college? Or jobs?
- esrauch 10mo agoHistorically that's true, but I don't think it's true in 2025.
- flatline 10mo agoIt kind of depends on how you define "history". Before STEM dominated the hiring landscape, Universities were less career focused. No employers in these fields, as far as I know, have ever offered apprenticeships to teach new hires chemical engineering or applied mathematics from the ground up. University will not prepare you for a corporate job, exactly, but it gives you a background that lets you step into that, or go into research, etc. Lots of employers expect new hires to have research skills as well. I think there are a number of ways in which financial incentives and University culture are misaligned with this reality.