User, when did you realise that higher education is a scam and most university degrees are worthless?

So what? I am white with a college degree and I will indeed vote for Biden.

I feel you dude. Fucking life sciences.

> 4 years of undergrad to learn marketable skills
> 5+ years of PhD to learn or develop marketable skills
> About 10 years in academia and still haven’t learned any useful skills
> Get postdoc instead of breaking this cycle

The problem isn’t your uni, your major or the PhD process. It’s that in a decade you somehow haven’t figured out that you have to learn skills that will make you employable no matter what you are majoring in.

Ffs, I have friends with traditionally useless majors that pivoted, learned some new skills (e.g. coding, project management) and are now making 6 figure in consulting or tech.

Best of luck but don’t spend another decade with the mindset that “degree = job” or you will be in the same situation

nah, 75K a year is still enough to be p happy, do gender studies if you want

trade-schools.net/articles/gender-studies-jobs

That's the problem. Nobody at my university had an idea what makes someone employable. Most of the professors were completely focused on academia and focused on these skills. The issue is that the skills useful in academic research are not useful in real life. This is the whole issue: university does not prepare for real life and is thus useless.

>Ffs, I have friends with traditionally useless majors that pivoted, learned some new skills (e.g. coding, project management) and are now making 6 figure in consulting or tech.

So what. They got their job because of their new skills, not because of their university degree. If they didn't go to university and just learned to code (or went into CS for the start) they would be better off.

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Bachelor prepares you for a job but all a PhD does is help your professor publish. So yes, unless your future career benefits your professor or uni (e.g. you want to become a prof), the uni will not prepare you since they have no incentive. This is really obvious to most people early on in their PhDs and so as a response most people learn marketable skills along the way. So yes of course the uni doesn’t prepare you for real life. This isn’t high school dude. You have to fend for yourself. The Deans aren’t gonna check in on you and make you sure you can get a job. They assume that since you have a brain you have enough common sense to figure this out yourself. It’s not fucked, it’s the real world. People aren’t gonna hold your hand.

Also, they got their jobs because of their skills AND their degree. If you still haven’t figured this out, like 50% of getting high paying jobs is signaling. So having a PhD carries enough weight that McKinsey might hire you even if you have a degree in something useless like history. Also, some key software roles specifically look for people with PhD backgrounds no matter what it is, like say in the field of data science.

Does this mean ALL jobs require a degree? Of course not. However, the PhD still opens up a lot of doors and make it significantly easier to transition to a 6 figure job than if you didn’t have it

Where do you live, user? Location can make a world of difference between comfortable living and scraping by

Good self realization, still hope for you

> t. clueless retard