Is a college degree worth it ?

[Anonymous No.53470227]

Thinking about starting a degree in electrical engineering, I am 24yrs old and worked blue collar job until now (Europe)
I need to boost my income and my current job is boring as hell and makes me depressed

[Anonymous No.53470247]

>>53470227
Electrical engineering is fun and cool. Will be plenty of use cases in the future as well. We will always need to transfer energy and that will always have an input and output. Unlike transportation of goods which could potentially get replaced by teleportation. That would just go to electrical engineers. I think it's a good pick and electricity is more interesting than you might think.

I believe engineering will prevail because innovation will split into 3 categories. Analog, digital and quantum/nano. Believe me that analog technologies are not dead yet, we have so much more to do. I know it's not quite relevant but it needs to be said more.

[Anonymous No.53470267]

>>53470227
Stop weabime and get a real degree, loser. Also engineering is a meme and you wont make it anyways.

[Anonymous No.53470274]

If you hate hard work, yes. If you would rather sit behind a desk or do stem then yes go to college. Cause the only way you are gonna make it as a wagie is working retail for 10 years then getting lucky and getting a position on an assembly line where you will make decent money. Then doing long term investments you will amass a fortune over the next 40 years and by the time you are 50 you will have made it some what.

But you seriously have to bust your ass. I love hard work, I work in bullet factory. I have been investing part of my paycheck into stocks and bonds for 3 years now. and am just starting to see positive growth, but, hopefully these dividens will start paying out big in a decade.

[Anonymous No.53470324]

>>53470267
Tell me what a real degree is

[Anonymous No.53470343]

>>53470324
Gender studies

[Anonymous No.53470366]

>>53470343

[Anonymous No.53470386]

If you can do it without getting into debt then its definitely worth it
I was a retard and chose to go to a private school cus muh prestige and now and im in more debt that necessary and dont even have a degree cus i got way too into xanax and partying and dropped out YMMV

[Anonymous No.53470395]

>>53470386
How do you cope with all the debt?

[Anonymous No.53470402]

>>53470324
networking

[Anonymous No.53470433]

>>53470227
Only go to college if you 100% need to study there and get a degree to work on that field. If it can be done teaching yourself and with no degree college is just a waste of time and money.

[Anonymous No.53470437]

>>53470343
May as well just do Anthropology.

[Anonymous No.53470852]

>>53470227
I'm was going back to uni to do IT, engineering or maybe geology but after doing research I'm thinking it would be retarded to do anything other than human resources. Srs it pays just as much as stem and they do fuck all I'm not seeing the flaw

[Anonymous No.53471479]

>>53470852
What prospects do you have with Human Resources ?

[Anonymous No.53471563]

>>53470852
Wtf are you talking about lmao

[Anonymous No.53471653]

>>53470852
>>53471563
This board is a scam

[Anonymous No.53471668]

>>53471479
Idk looks good with lots of graduate positions
>>53471563
To sum up my post I think it's a good idea to go to university with the intent of gaining employment in human resources

[Anonymous No.53471680]

>>53470386
I’d say going into some debt is OK. If you can pay it off in 1-3 years within your typical budget, that’s fine. So if you make $40k and have $6k year left after expenses, I think $6-$15k or so is reasonable to take on. Much more than that gets to be risky

[Anonymous No.53471682]

>>53470227
College is only worth it if you have a clear-cut goal, make connections, and study a proper STEM degree and you meet all the criteria so go for it OP. If it were up to me no one under your age would be allowed into college, 18 year olds are way too inexperienced and dumb to choose their career yet.

Head over to /scg/ general on /sci/ if you want actual discussions since this board has been braindead for the last 2 years.

[Anonymous No.53472236]

>>53470274
>stocks and bonds
>in 10 years
He doesn’t know he is boomer exit liquidity

[Anonymous No.53472466]

>>53471680
I have a networth of about nearly 80k and my parents allow me to stay for free at their house
Ok it’s nothing to be proud of to still life with parents at 25yrs old, but I think could keep my wealth with the right decisions throughout college
So I don’t worry about getting into debt
The thing that is killing me is my mind numbing job that I will definitely quit this summer

[Anonymous No.53472718]

>>53470274
This anon is right

[Anonymous No.53472732]

>>53470324
History

[Anonymous No.53472740]

Why is everyone on /biz/ getting an EE degree now? What's the meme there?
>Europe
College free in your country get degree for free wee.

[Anonymous No.53472773]

>>53472466
if you easy with math and doing the equivalent of the wagiedance, socializing with costudents in groups for practical/lab lessons, its easygoing. go to the annoying first meetups/parties so you atleast know the people of the group to leech the lecture script off. also look at ways to maximum leech on gov gibs for poor students (depending on your country and how good your wealth is 'not official'). also it might even be fun sometimes the whole bullshit

[Anonymous No.53472791]

>>53472466
forgot to mention: also being able with your family is something to be proud of. most people are just miserable with awful families, who just want to ruin that for everybody else by familyshaming kek. why would any rational parent want their kid unneccesary waste money

[Anonymous No.53472885]

>>53470227
dont bother in europe your expected increase in earnings barely compensates for the 5 years of studying and no wages over your lifetime
factor in that any high tier job demands much unpaid overtime and you are better off with any low tier 40ish hours a week job and using your ambition to do a sidegig

better still factoring in investment gains (even boomer tier, not counting cryptos potential) and the expected returns of having invested money as early as possible in life cannot remotely be matched with waging

but no really all cagies in europe suck very much ass dont bother

[Anonymous No.53473034]

>>53472466
80k net at 25 yo and living for free, thats top tier for your age bracket son
dump all of that in crypto right the fuck now and wait 7 years, you'll retire to the bahamas and never think about waging another day in your life

[Anonymous No.53473137]

>>53470227
I am old (40) and live in the US southeast where 44k is the median salary for a family of 4. I was working an easy technician/manufacturing type job with a fortune 30 company, but I worked there for 12 years and maxed out at 67k a year because I didn't have my degree. I did part time college, got my BSE in electrical engineering, just finished last may, and immediately told them to either pay me a lot more, or I'm out, especially with how gay they were with all the COVID shit. They couldn't, so I went to a small engineering form and they started me out at 100k a year, and it's an even easier job. Plus, they pay bonuses.

Engineering is great, you will make decent money, but unless you get to the top of a firm you won't make real rich people money.

[Anonymous No.53473138]

>>53473034
I have about 1k in crypto lol

[Anonymous No.53473212]

>>53473137
Yeah but getting to the top of a firm means working 70-80 hour workweeks, so idk about that
I want to increase my income without becoming a train wreck \ burnout, then invest a substantial amount in stocks, etfs and crypto over several years and then only work part time after I’m 50 or 55

Currently the only jobs I could take are blue collar jobs (which I don’t mind doing), but i don’t see myself working a manual labor job in old age

[Anonymous No.53473338]

>>53473137
op lives in europe he isnt getting 100k, not even remotely
after tax he might be happy with 30k euros starting if in rich europe

>>53473212
anon if you are an eng its 70 hour workweeks (including transport) starting, just not to get fired
remember there is an inexhaustible supply of jeets and chinks with eng degrees and there is no barrier to entry like with medicine

>>53473138
1k lol, you will not listen to me and you lack the risk tolerance, but remember this day, today you could have bought about 50 eth
then remember this in 2030 how much that 50 eth is worth
stop being a pussy and take control of your future, no wagie in the cagie will accomplish this for you

[Anonymous No.53474591]

>>53470247
>Believe me that analog technologies are not dead yet
Of course they are not dead, but where do you see a lot of future jobs in analog?

[Anonymous No.53474620]

>>53472773
Companies don't just loose value cause people die unless it happens rapidly all at once.

[Anonymous No.53474654]

>>53470852
SHH! Don't let that spread! Keep the software engineering meme going!!! God forbid we have more men sausage fest up my female dominated workplace. (Only fucked 3 out of the 27 in My team so far, but I've only been on the Job for just 6 months so gotta pace myself)

[Anonymous No.53474657]

Yes t. Retard who fell for the trades meme
I have probably sheared 5 years off my life already and I make hardly any money plus I've got zero free time
As long as you get a degree in stem or business you will live an infinitely comfier and richer life

[Anonymous No.53474669]

>>53472740
extremely solid degree for guaranteed decent salary. whether you’d find it interesting enough to justify the workload is another story. also easy pivot to software engineering.

[Anonymous No.53474727]

Not unless you're black, then its a promise you'll have a good job.

[Anonymous No.53474766]

>>53474654
How do I get a comfy HR job? I have a econ meme degree, is It possible?

[Anonymous No.53474776]

>i could go to college get in debt like everybody else
>graduate and prolly get a job that doesn't pay the bills
>that don't make a lot of sense to me i would rather make a mil
>make a mil?
>nah i said make a meal, homecookin get the grill how you want it pretty well?

[Anonymous No.53474844]

>>53470227
What's this anime you keep posting

[Anonymous No.53474861]

>>53474844
Oh, Cyberpunk, thanks.

[Anonymous No.53474973]

>>53474844
>>53474861
yes

[Anonymous No.53474992]

>>53474844
How do you not know what cyberpunk is?

[Anonymous No.53475038]

>>53473338
> op lives in europe he isnt getting 100k, not even remotely
It is possible to earn six figures a year, but only before taxes
>>53474654
What the FUCK is Human Resources anyway
>>53472740
> College free in your country get degree for free wee.
Nah it’s not entirely free, there is a fee of about 600€ per year, but it also includes a ticket for all the local public transport
But yeah also gotta pay for food, activities, events and so on

[Anonymous No.53475245]

>>53475038
600eurobux a year IS free. I owe more than that in parking tickets.

[Anonymous No.53475329]

>>53470324
Law

[Anonymous No.53475346]

>>53470227
University was great and I loved it but I went to actually learn things and took a broad, multi focused degree. Don't assume you'll get a job straight out of college with a degree. Network while you're in school

[Anonymous No.53476298]

>>53475346
>and took a broad, multi focused degree
can you specify ?

[Anonymous No.53476613]

>>53470227
Is it normal to feel burnt out in your last semester at Uni
I had to take 4 math courses each the last two semesters and I feel drained. I'm only taking two math courses now and two piss easy classes but I feel like I lost something

[Anonymous No.53477981]

>>53470852
>I'm was going back
ESL bros... not like this