/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>1129290
>He thought college degrees were magical scrolls with which you could cast on yourself the secret spell of employment

top kek

>>880753
>What are some majors that offer great career opportunities

There aren't any. The belief that degrees are some sort of magical job granting item is just a myth.

University is about education, not job training.

>>504453
>Daily reminder that college is a scam and you're better off without it [IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN LEARNING]

Well duh.

>>506253
>1. College is a good deal for good students, a mediocre deal for mediocre students, and a poor deal for poor students.
>6. The secondary reason why college pays better for better students: hard majors pay better than easy majors, and better students gravitate toward harder majors.
>7. One bad argument against college: "What professors teach isn't relevant in the real world." In the labor market, degrees in the most irrelevant subjects still open doors and raise pay. Many jobs simply require a college degree in... whatever. The difficulty of your major matters a lot more to employers than its relevance.

This

>>504479

College isn't and frankly cannot be job training for engineering and firms don't expect it to be.

>>508252
>I get pissed on for no diploma

Just take the damn GED exam already. The main problem of being self taught is you can't easily prove it (yet) but you can for high school level education.

>>422822
>degree
>career possibilities

Degrees don't give career possibilities, they mark education.

And no, psychology has no educational or career value.

>>399586
>Treating college education as getting a magical employment license

In 5 years time OP will return bitching that his degree item didn't instantly get him a job by virtue of having it.

>>394895
>Treating getting an University Degree as buying a license to be employable with salary *
>Totally ignoring the actual "education" aspect

You're exactly the type of person that shouldn't go to University. Well at least until you grow up, if that ever happens....

Go to University if you want to learn and you are currently unable to do so in any reasonable manner or time frame on your own. After University, you should continue to learn on your own throughout your life on various topics, not just limited to what you studied in school, with the skills you gained during your studies. This is not a meaningless chant said during commencement speeches; this is the whole point of an University education.

When you search for work, you can use what skills you gained from gathering & processing information, unraveling complex/abstract concepts, problem solving, researching, determination with hard work and self discipline, etc etc to ~sell~ yourself better than if you didn't have a degree but you have to remember that you are selling ~yourself~ and not your degree. You can't just expect to walk into an office, point at your degree say you've took so and so courses, and expect to get the job. This is true regardless of whether you've got a STEM degree or Liberal Arts degree or even just an autodidact without a degree.