/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16578355]

>Do PhD in literature
>Feel happy
>Friend quits his music PhD, advances his already good programming skills in free time
>Gets job at very big tech company
>His signing bonus is significantly more than I make in a year
>Feel happy for him, but god damn

[Anonymous No.16578373]

Refer to that one Kierkegaard quote, OP.

[Anonymous No.16578377]

is it too late to learn programming and get a decent job in the field? where do you learn programming?
I'm studying business administration and not only do I not really enjoy it that much but the job prospects aren't looking too good

[Anonymous No.16578380]

We are going out lives for knowledge OP. We make our lives the ultimate sacrifice for humanity. Being a corporate pleb is so boring and meaningless

[Anonymous No.16578389]

your friend is a sellout. never forget that when you're steeped in the tradition 40 years from now. money evaporates on death, if you write literally anything your name will be remembered far after his

[Anonymous No.16578393]

>>16578380
*giving our lives

[Anonymous No.16578479]

>>16578355
>Soulless corporate tech jobs
>muh programming

[Anonymous No.16578512]

>>16578377
>is it too late to learn programming and get a decent job in the field? where do you learn programming?
His application and interview process sounded fucking brutal as hell, but he's a smart guy. I couldn't really tell you much about his path to this job.

[Anonymous No.16578568]

>>16578377
How old are you?

[Anonymous No.16578571]

>>16578512
There is definitely a lot of money in tech, but there's a lot of sacrifice in regards to your time and mental energy in devoting your life to it.

If you have never been interested in tech and are only thinking about it cause of the money, then your won't enjoy it and will be miserable. Try to introspect properly on what you want.

The question to ask yourself is, were you satisfied in life before you knew your friend was making so much money? Therefore causing you to compare.

[Anonymous No.16578577]

>>16578377
Look into data analysis with python. I know someone who took a physics lab class as an undergrad that did some pretty basic data analysis and afterward, along with working on his own, he got a job while still an undergrad. He's super smart and had a lot of patience, but it's possible.

[Anonymous No.16578589]

>>16578377
You say you're in college so I'm assuming you're <30. It's always possible to do it before you turn 30.

[Anonymous No.16578604]

I work in tech, good money and easy to find a job but fuck me it’s soulless. The grass is always greener OP

[Anonymous No.16578612]

>>16578355
what to do after I graduate with a BA in classics?

[Anonymous No.16578617]

>>16578612
Unironically, law school. It's your only way out of this hell.

[Anonymous No.16578619]

>>16578377
there is a huge demand for programmers. just take a coding boot camp and you can score an entry level job. don’t worry about how hard it is to get a job at the big tech companies, there are tons of programming jobs that don’t even require a technical degree they just want people who know how to do it

[Anonymous No.16578621]

If you tie your happiness to outside wealth you will never be truly happy.

[Anonymous No.16578624]

>>16578621
I don't want to be happy, I want to afford health care and a mid sized apartment.

[Anonymous No.16578630]

>>16578617
Don't like law

[Anonymous No.16578639]

>>16578621
I tie my happiness to not having to live with my parents

[Anonymous No.16578651]

>>16578355
>PhD > material gains
Your friend fucked up. He could have had a piece of paper to look on proudly, instead has lots of piece of paper that lets him buy things.

[Anonymous No.16578667]

>>16578571
I'm not considering a switch at all thankfully; I don't know shit about tech and programming. I like my current situation very much, I'm just entirely blown away by the money and scope of it all.

[Anonymous No.16578670]

Kek

[Anonymous No.16578684]

Ask yourself: Are you in it for money or prestige? If you abandon ship and get into programming, you might be able to make more money and climb the corporate ladder to a certain degree. But you’ll likely always be helping fulfill someone else’s vision. If you stick with literature, however, you’ll probably make less money, but you’ll have the freedom to create as an individual and an artist. There’s always teaching and all that shit so you can make money while working on academic projects. (This, of course, is assuming you actually got something out of your studies and are a capable writer/academic now.) Take your pick, friend.

[Anonymous No.16578688]

>>16578630
>>16578630
Then you're fucked, son. Start applying for jobs right now, and thinking of getting into a technical subject for a Master's (don't get a master's degree if you have to pay for it). I urge you to do this quickly, I'm currently 27, on my second year of law school. I did my B.A. in Classics and got "lucky" getting a master's in Latin in Portugal (not only didn't I pay tuition, I also received a monthly stipend). But the job market is literally impenetrable. Going to Academia is the only choice, but the 3-4 year commitment would eventually lead me to accept shitty post-doc positions or being an adjunct for several years. Please get a grip. I know Virgil is alluring, but he won't guide you through life under capitalism.

[Anonymous No.16578710]

>>16578688
It's over

[Anonymous No.16578725]

>>16578710
It's not over, you're probably under 25, so you can still change things around. If you don't have a Linkedin page, set up one (don't put your picture, don't waste time filling the profile), and look at their vacancies tab. You'll see what employers are looking for in wagies, and I guarantee you won't see your abilities in any of the requirements. It's grueling.

[Anonymous No.16578741]

>>16578651
it's unironically better to be proud of who you are and what you've done rather than just having money

[Anonymous No.16578742]

>>16578624
>>16578639
I live on about $1400 usd a month. Bought my own apartment and don't need healthcare because I have a lot of free time to exercise/stay healthy. I couldn't imagine working more than 2 days a week, why slave your life away for things that are ultimately unnecessary to be happy.

[Anonymous No.16578748]

>>16578742
>and don't need healthcare because I have a lot of free time to exercise/stay healthy

lol

[Anonymous No.16578752]

>>16578742
>and don't need healthcare because I have a lot of free time to exercise/stay healthy.
Fucking Burgerland, jesus christ

[Anonymous No.16578758]

>>16578741
There's peace in pride. You can lose all the money and fame but you can never lose the person you are the capacities you cultivated

[Anonymous No.16578769]

>>16578758
Yes you can lose it. It's called having a breakdown when you experience trauma and cower from the Real. Then you'll see your pretty piece of paper and PhD education was for naught, since life is for naught.

[Anonymous No.16578776]

>>16578725
>and I guarantee you won't see your abilities in any of the requirements
What do you mean?

[Anonymous No.16578777]

>>16578769
>since life is for naught.
So why waste it on programming when you can spend it reading books?

[Anonymous No.16578779]

>>16578769
Holy reddit. You're definitely underage. You can't lose your education and you can't lose your consciousness(if you did "you" would be dead". As long as you can think you can't lose nonmaterial things.

[Anonymous No.16578780]

>>16578752
>>16578748
>Exercise 5 days a week
>Eat a proper diet
>Don't drink/smoke
>Stay /fit/ as fuck
I don't get sick and I'll never have health problems, why would I need healthcare.

[Anonymous No.16578790]

>>16578780
>Some fat fuck who never exercised in his life
>On his way to McDonalds
>Spills his Diet Coke while driving
>Runs you over, you get rekt
>Hospital and ambulance bill instantly financially ruin you forever

[Anonymous No.16578793]

>>16578377
Programming is soulless. You'll hate it in the long run

[Anonymous No.16578804]

>>16578355
> PhD in literature

[Anonymous No.16578811]

Why does everyone and their mother get a PhD these days?

[Anonymous No.16578814]

>>16578373
which one?

[Anonymous No.16578815]

>>16578811
Confirmation bias my nigga

[Anonymous No.16578816]

>>16578776
Employers typically come up with a list of requirements and skills that candidates should possess. Typically it's a wish list, if you have 50-60% of the listed skills, you should apply anyway and see what happens. The problem is, with a B.A. in Classics you will literally have 0% of the required experience/skills.

[Anonymous No.16578825]

>>16578811
The world sucks and going the PhD route gives you a safe space to play until your late twenties.

[Anonymous No.16578844]

>work a trade to pay for college
>get my BA
>already making more in my trade than I would with my degree
>fuck it stick with trade
>pay for trailers in cash
>flip them on the side
>literally %200 roi
>covid hits
>the company I’m working for is sinking
>don’t want to have to restart at another trade company
>thinking about pursuing my dream of grad school
If grad school doesn’t work out I have marketable skills. I just feel burnt out. I’m mid 20s. So there’s still hope, right?

[Anonymous No.16578849]

>>16578612
apply for masters or phd programs in a humanities field that engages you

[Anonymous No.16578859]

>>16578844
There's hope, friend.

[Anonymous No.16578862]

>>16578780
>I don't get sick and I'll never have health problems
I remember what it was like being 22. Goddamn, my knees especially remember.

[Anonymous No.16578873]

>>16578814
"Life is like a sandwich. No matter which way you flip it, the bread comes first."

[Anonymous No.16578881]

>>16578844
>If grad school doesn't work out I have marketable skills
"I do not want to have to make a petty struggle for existence, physical or literary....I must try not to be a dilettante--half dream, half deed. I must be all dream or all deed."
--Wallace Stevens, 1900

[Anonymous No.16578898]

>>16578811
What's normal for being educated keeps upping. Everyone has a degree so do a masters. Everyone's done a masters, go get a PhD.

[Anonymous No.16578903]

>>16578355
>>16578377

Tech jobs are well paid but full of freakshow loser bugmen. Depending on your work enviromnent, this may or may not come at a social cost. Prepare to be a weirdo if you think discussing elder scrolls and pokemon is beneath you

[Anonymous No.16578914]

>>16578793
100% this. You'd have to be a sadomasochist to slave away behind a computer for 8+ hours.

[Anonymous No.16578927]

>>16578377>>16578512
>>16578903
>>16578619
>>16578577

no, coders are not scientists. computer science is the new assembly line work.literally blue collar but monkeys believe they are white collars. They get the tile of engineers to get a high dose vapid power trip and tell their parents they are not failure, while still having a shitty pay. LOL engineer my ass.

this is why all the big corps like apple push the state to make coding mandatory in public school, in order to increase competition among the monkeys and to avoid spending money on training them

[Anonymous No.16578929]

>>16578898
This is simply the law of capitalism. Success is always followed by inflation.

[Anonymous No.16578935]

>>16578914
Yeah. The only thing worse is wasting away in front of computer for free.

[Anonymous No.16578939]

>>16578927

>this is why all the big corps like apple push the state to make coding mandatory in public school, in order to increase competition among the monkeys and to avoid spending money on training them

~80-90% of Americans lack the cognitive skills to get through an entry level CS class. My uni even has a shitty training wheels class for people who are judged at risk for being unable to complete the normal class the 1st time through

[Anonymous No.16578941]

>>16578927
You're thinking of IT workers and software engineers. Actual computer scientists are basically mathematicians focussed on computation.

[Anonymous No.16578946]

>>16578790
First off the odds of getting hit if you're not drunk walking around on the street at 3am are actually quite low.
Second, I have money invested in my apartment which I could sell if needed to pay medical bills. With the money I'm not wasting on insurance, I'll be able to afford buying a new apartment and rent my old one out.

>>16578862
>my knees especially remember.
I had similar problems start showing up when I was around 24. I switched to barefoot running after reading Born to Run, haven't had any leg pain since.

[Anonymous No.16578948]

>>16578355
Why do you deserve more money than your friend? You study what others have written. You probably write like an academic. No one wants to read that outside of academia. You don't have real skills. You contribute nothing real. Your entire existence so far has been that for your own personal enjoyment, curiosities, and ego.

If you wanted more money you took a wrong turn long ago, anon.

[Anonymous No.16578949]

>>16578612
Do a post bacc and get your pre reqs done then take the Mcat and go to med school. I did theology and I’m switching careers. All my peers are science nerds with no depth of the soul that philosophy or literature brings in.

[Anonymous No.16578950]

>>16578939
>at risk for being unable to complete the normal class the 1st time through
Why do we even allow these people into universities?

[Anonymous No.16578958]

>>16578948
>You don't have real skills.
What skills constitute real ones?
>You contribute nothing real.
What contributions constitute real ones?

[Anonymous No.16578959]

>>16578948
>Why do you deserve more money than your friend?
Can you direct me to the part of my post where I asked for the same money he is making?

[Anonymous No.16578964]

>>16578958
Any skill that can be of use to a fellow human being who is acting freely and of his own volition. Teaching a compulsory college class does not meet this standard.

[Anonymous No.16578987]

>>16578948
tilting at windmills, the post

[Anonymous No.16578995]

>>16578959
You wouldn't ask for it. You would only lament on an anonymous message board and pretend to be happy for your friend while secretly doubting your life choices. Your image choice says it all.

[Anonymous No.16578997]

>>16578950

I go to a stateschool because I was a fuckup in highschool and testscores won't carry everything.

Anyways, in the US universities generally treat education like a product tailor fit for a consumer base. And the less tuition they can charge a low performing student, the less money the university makes in the end. So otherwise strict weedout classes often have support classes or generous curves to make sure the majority of students at least get a passing grade and can continue to the next semester.

I believe student advisors will recommend communications or "international studies" to similarly poor performing students so they can extract as much money as possible from the student. Divershitty degrees are similarly superfluous and clearly a money making scheme

[Anonymous No.16579018]

>>16578995
>secretly doubting your life choices
I have the same thoughts when I watch people younger than myself compete in CSGO lan tournaments and win millions playing video games. I'm sure you've never, ever wondered 'what if' about other life choices, right? Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.16579043]

>>16578964
nothing is compulsory except prison time. The college student chose to be at that school, paying for tuition

[Anonymous No.16579044]

>>16579018

I do not do this, no. Amor fati, there is no escape, no way out

[Anonymous No.16579053]

>>16579044
>I do not do this, no.
Then you have neither imagination nor ambition.

[Anonymous No.16579067]

>>16579053

Sounds more like you're resentful of your current situation. To the point of fantasizing about being a zoomer fortnite degenerate lmao

[Anonymous No.16579079]

>>16579067
Read my earlier post: >>16578667
I'm very happy with my current situation. I get to read books and write a dissertation; it's neat. But yes, I still sometimes imagine other paths in life and there's nothing at all wrong with that.

[Anonymous No.16579087]

>>16579018

Is this still the person with a PhD? You envy people making money playing video games and wonder "what if"? What if what? You were in the top 0.001% of gamers? I don't think of those people at all.

[Anonymous No.16579103]

>>16578617
>Unironically, law school
Retard.

[Anonymous No.16579104]

>>16578987
Academics are not an imaginary enemy. They are real people with names and addresses.

[Anonymous No.16579124]

>>16579103
Why?

[Anonymous No.16579126]

>>16578881
Based Stevens quitting the inherently oppressive career of law to write some of the best American poetry.

[Anonymous No.16579144]

>>16579104
Way to hijack an ennui thread to turn it into your personal crusade, friend. Stop posting--nobody cares but you.

[Anonymous No.16579153]

>>16579126
>quitting
He held onto that job all his life, even after receiving the Pulitzer.

[Anonymous No.16579162]

Will I regret a literature PhD? i've given up on ambition

[Anonymous No.16579180]

>>16579124
The legal field is already over saturated with legitimate retards who attend schools like Cooley and Yale. The revolving door between certain schools with firms/non-profits (think of HLS and EJI) perpetuates the general unattainability of certain positions. 14,200 people take the NY Bar Exam alone in 2019, where a goodly amount of those are either applying to--or already received offers from-orgs/firms. Plus, legal pedagogy is stuck in the 40s and should only be two years all of which is in clinical work in the various blackletter law classes.

[Anonymous No.16579221]

>>16579144
I'm not here to be anyone. I'm a consequence of writing these thoughts on 4chan instead of a journal you could pick up for a dollar so no one has to share them. This is what your post deserves. Go back to whatever school you crawled out of to write this post.

[Anonymous No.16579237]

>>16578377
I'm a pure math major bro. I don't even think about jobs

[Anonymous No.16579323]

>>16579126
nah bro he wrote that sentence in his journal at the tender age of 20. I was just giving some advice to the anon who seemed split between employment and the academy. Ironically, Stevens had both a revolutionary oeuvre and an esteemed insurance job. He was simultaneously all deed and all dream, much like Chekhov, something we mortals cannot aspire to.

[Anonymous No.16579398]

>>16578948
>Your entire existence so far has been that for your own personal enjoyment, curiosities, and ego.
based, now I want to do a literature phd

[Anonymous No.16579433]

>>16579398
It's quite a patrician way to experience your 20s. Just as long as you're funded, my gui

[Anonymous No.16579442]

Yeah it’s sad that he didn’t make an original contribution to scholarly knowledge. Money never makes up for that.

[Anonymous No.16579474]

>be me stemcel phd (computer science)
>undergrad I have working for me signs for microsoft
>signing bonus is literally worth more than my house
>she got a signing bonus of 100,000$
>contemplate sudoku

the money in my field (in industry) is so retarded

[Anonymous No.16579490]

>>16579474
Money is nice, but have you ever bought the farm?

[Anonymous No.16579503]

>>16578377
What do most programmers even do? What do they contribute to the world?

[Anonymous No.16579510]

How is this in any way shocking? It's been known. The issue is that nobody wants to be code monkeys. It's a depressing lifestyle unless you're one of those weirdos that grew up coding stuff.
You can still join in but you'll most likely hate it.

My advice:
>be code monkey
>be actually good at it
>make a lot of dough
>save up for a couple of years
>now you have a bit of capital that you can invest
>enjoy comfy /lit/ life

[Anonymous No.16579522]

>>16578752
I know, having to pay for healthcare.

[Anonymous No.16579524]

>>16579503
make day-in-the-life vlogs and build useless "smart" apps nobody asked for

[Anonymous No.16579549]

>>16579524
fuck you, Flux is/was great

[Anonymous No.16579560]

>>16578355
The real secret to life is either already being better than everyone else at their own game or doing the exact opposite of what everyone is doing.

[Anonymous No.16579584]

>>16579398
This is what it is to be a student now. There are just so many people who fuck themselves financially speaking openly of their negative experience that it can be easy to forget. It is a playground for the mind. Many are too caught up in everything else to truly enjoy it for what it is in the blissful state of self-indulgence that it allows by design - much like OP daydreaming about his tech friend's higher pay or kids playing video games for money.

[Anonymous No.16579671]

>>16579549
Flux is/was fucking shit. Why would you want to sync your screen to what the sun is doing outside? Ever lived away from the equator? No I don't want to guess what random position on the equator gives me the custom settings that I want for my light cycle. Why was this piece of shit so popular?

[Anonymous No.16579675]

>>16578948
If you really want to measure worth, the only people that contribute to reality in the present moment are men, in any field, and the mothers and wives of these men - who don't measure things by their corresponding weight in money - which translates into "practicality" - , who's jobs involve a kind of 'cleaning up' or a fixing of reality and the mess which has been made by the industriousness, productive and faux-contributing mindset. Mostly everyone else creates ruin or at least rubble in their path, good intentions or not.

[Anonymous No.16579682]

>>16579671
Are you autistic? I like it because it makes my screen less harsh at night—seems pretty good to me

[Anonymous No.16579701]

>>16579682
LightBulb.

[Anonymous No.16579705]

>>16579671
Because I like being able to sleep at night, but also use my phone at night. Blue light fucks with your eyes. Also, you're a dumbass. Flux is now integrated into Android ui. Turn it on/off whenever you want.

[Anonymous No.16579714]

>>16579180
Can confirm. I'm in the legal field and cannot find a job right now. The only firms hiring want at least five years of experience to even consider you for an interview. Work that used to be considered for billable hours has been cut down, as corporations have realized just how easy much of the profession is and no longer want to pay an attorney's fee for the work. Unironically, if you want a good paying job in the legal field, become a court reporter. You can work your own hours and earn a ton of money, because you're always in demand (everyone wants to be an attorney or paralegal). You can even be a digital reporter if you don't want to learn stenography (you just have to work depositions instead of trials).

[Anonymous No.16579755]

>>16578914
idk I make 6 figures by spending a few hours on my computer and on the phone on my couch, and it's not a bad gig. it's not ideal in terms of feeling fulfilled but I literally don't have to worry about money, and I can spend time reading or exercising or seeing friends. I'm content for the time being, there's plenty worse things to do for a living

[Anonymous No.16579769]

>>16579705
>Assuming I'm on a phone like a degenerate zoomer

[Anonymous No.16579797]

>>16579549
>>16579671
lol flux has everything besides an on/off switch. It's the most overengineered piece of garbage ever created. All I want to do is filter blue light - ON, and then unfilter it - OFF, at my disgression. That's it. Simple. But no, the fucking autistic engineer is like, "wEll, if wE sYnc youR circAdIan rHythm with the Position of ThE sun, relativE to the Time of Day, offSeT by yoUr diStanCe fRom tHe TrAnsVerse mErcAtor, wE cAn dEvisE a pRogrAm tha aUtoMAGICALLY (teehee) filtErs the RGB lEvelS prOjecting fRom yOur mONitor tO pErfEctly mAtCh tHe IdEal quantIty of BluE lIgHt yoU sHould Be rEceivIng eAcH minUtE of ThE day! =D =D =D"

[Anonymous No.16579825]

>>16579797
>flux has everything besides an on/off switch
just fucking stop. You are full of shit, period

[Anonymous No.16579828]

>>16578814
>Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.

[Anonymous No.16579848]

>>16578377
Get a job that's actually useful to people. Programming is soulless, and the only value you create is short-term diversions that retarded investors skim meal tickets from before your shit "company" goes under.

[Anonymous No.16579853]

>>16579825
>for...
>when using...
>until...
>everything besides a simple on/off
Thank you for proving my point.

[Anonymous No.16579877]

>>16579853
Let me help you, since you seem to be severely retarded. You see these sliders? These are your on/off switch. Pick whatever color setting you want. Off? 6500K, max brightness. On? Anything less than that. The app actually has all the functionality you desire. You're simply too smoothbrained to understand the ui.

[Anonymous No.16579929]

>>16579877
>just drag these three sliders
>no light switch
>no toggleable on//off
Thank you, again, for proving my point. You're either autistic and enjoy the autistic controls devised by the autistic creators, or you've just been inundated with non-user friendly non-simple technology and tools your whole life, and have thus come to expect such crap.

[Anonymous No.16579947]

>>16579929
>3 controls, too much
>me need 1

[Anonymous No.16579974]

>>16579947
>light switch boring, give me sliders! everything is a spectrum! binary bad!

[Anonymous No.16579978]

>>16578949
I'm in the same boat as you anon except I couldn't find a job and suffered unemployment for a few years so I fell into default and became ineligible for more course funding. It is very frustrating because I had already an expert understanding of the subject material and could just take the MCAT. About 5 years later I found a job where I wasn't starving and could afford more than 1500 calories a day and could make headwind on it. I'm going for the prerequisites next year but wish I could just take the MCAT and just be judged on that alone given how long it's been and that I will be 31 by the time it is all said and done. The local medical school requires prerequisites, so does the only other one I would consider going to (USUHS). It is very disappointing as not only was was told by physician colleagues to go to medical school but go for MD PhD. Experts saw so much promise in me and it was blocked by technicalities here and there and lacking this or that or falling behind, and faceless university and loan department bureaucrats. Such trifles that I thought a simple letter to these institutions at times would be able to address but these inquires went ignored or were rebutted with protocol being reinforced. So much time wasted over nothing. Years gone that I will never get back. It is ironic now that COVID has hit, these same institutions now are offering flexibility in admissions and not strictly adhering to their guidelines, meanwhile they told me to go pound salt.

[Anonymous No.16579981]

>>16579974
>>16579947
christ you two

[Anonymous No.16579989]

>>16579981
i apologize on behalf of both of us. here, take a rare wojak for your troubles

[Anonymous No.16580001]

>>16579797
Are you quite literally retarded?

[Anonymous No.16580022]

>>16580001
You need to read more.

[Anonymous No.16580040]

>>16579701
Is that an app or something?

[Anonymous No.16580046]

>>16580001
yes, sorry

[Anonymous No.16580050]

>>16579797
What the hell are you on about? You can disable it any time you want and you can control the intensity as much as you want—you don't even need to limit it to when it's day or night

[Anonymous No.16580077]

>>16580001
>>16580046
same

[Anonymous No.16580326]

The finest virtue of a great thinker is the magnanimity with which, as a man of knowledge, he intrepidly, often with embarrassment, often with sublime mockery – offers himself and his life as a supreme sacrifice.

-Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.16580627]

>>16578811
autism

[Anonymous No.16580696]

>>16578612
I joined the military and will be using tuition assistance on an MA while I'm in and then use the GI Bill for another master's once I'm out

[Anonymous No.16580847]

>>16579978
Sorry to hear that bro! I believe in you

[Anonymous No.16581076]

>>16578941
Yes, but actual computer scientists aren't coding for eight hours a day, if at all.

[Anonymous No.16581101]

>>16579442
Most academics can't manage that.

[Anonymous No.16581127]

>>16579877
That sounds like a failure of the UI, honestly. Most people using a product will be smoothbrained. You can is/ought all you want, but if the smoothbrained can't use the product, the product is a failure.

[Anonymous No.16581317]

>WAHHH my CAREER and SOCIAL STATUS WAHHHHH

holy fucking REDDIT. stop believing in spooks, you fucking mouth breathing dweeb. lmfao

[Anonymous No.16581341]

>>16581101
The standard for academic originality is actually quite low:
New data
New interpretation
New method.
(Only one needed.)

[Anonymous No.16581355]

bro i'm a fucking mailman just imagine you could be doing 60 hours a week delivering fucking mail
actually i listen to a shitload of podcasts which is cool tho

[Anonymous No.16581663]

>>16578577
I work in academia (teaching at an EAP programme) and I want to learn a bit about data analysis and combine it with education (analysing assessment results, etc.)

Do you think it's doable?

Do you think it

[Anonymous No.16581710]

>>16581355
More like a failman
(haha)

[Anonymous No.16581724]

>>16581355
Dude I'm a fucking postie, I work 60 hour weeks, and I spend them listening to jazz and working on problems in theory and praxis.

[Anonymous No.16581734]

>>16581724
>problems in theory and praxis.
Theory and praxis of what

[Anonymous No.16581747]

>>16581734
The mail

[Anonymous No.16581780]

>>16578964
Lol I don't care about that shit, fuck you bitch

[Anonymous No.16581800]

I have too many units to change my major, doing English and wanna kms. Fucking useless degree with no job prospects and academia is turning to shit

[Anonymous No.16581821]

>>16578389
Someone else who has my same name already wrote something important. Do I get a free pass?

[Anonymous No.16581855]

>>16578617
Law is the worst possible choice you could make, law is a brutal and dying field with a culture of abuse.

[Anonymous No.16581870]

>>16578604
Have a friend who says the same. He’s basically squirreling money away for a few years so he can fuck off to do something else with his life.

[Anonymous No.16581873]

I am failing all STEM classes right now, what is the best non STEM to transfer to? Was considering history just because I like it in an amateur way.

[Anonymous No.16581890]

>>16578946
Friend, the chances of any individual calamity (freak accident, illness) may be low on their own, but the odds of any given thing happening to you are. If you’re really just making shit tons of cash, fine, but otherwise you would do well to at least look into some insurance options.

[Anonymous No.16582000]

>>16580326
god I love how Nietzsche always helps me with making stupid choices.

[Anonymous No.16582018]

>>16579714
>>16579180
What law school did you go to?

[Anonymous No.16582382]

fghhg

[Anonymous No.16582440]

>>16578355
>starting PhD soon to effectively delay getting a job (not that I'd get one currently anyway)
>0 idea what I'll do if/when I finish it
>academia is probably the best prospect except I've heard it's abysmal
Fuck