Also good jobs dont exist anymore 🫠

  • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    30 days ago

    I’m honestly glad I had “low” aspirations going into college. My goal was always to be a teacher so I never expected good pay and therefore can’t be dissapointed.

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      I would say like holy fuck, but I’ve been looking on and off for a way out of my night shift job for 2 years, I’m well qualified in my field but I’ve barely got a couple interviews. Not sure if I’m doing something wrong but I don’t think so just seems like everything’s fucked lol

      • Boo! Haunted House!@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        Lemme give you a personal example of how fucked everything is:

        I was fired from my cyber security job back in March 2025. The only interview I got with a real human was with this one IT repair company that repairs school laptops. The interview went pretty well. Y’know, aside from the interviewer looking at my resume before asking me why I was applying for the job as I was overqualified. He then followed up with, “Is the job market really that bad now?”

        I did my best to answer in a way that made me seem enthusiastic for the job, but deep down I knew he was right, and that I was overqualified for the job. Needless to say, they didn’t move forward with me.

        That was July 2025, and I haven’t found a damn job since.

        If we don’t get tribunals for every single fucker who fucked the economy sideways, there is no hope or future for this country.

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          Yeah it’s not much better even in New Zealand lol. I feel very sorry for anyone just getting out of high school, if I’m in one of the cities and I can’t find another job in my field with my qualifications and work history, what chance does a high school grad have??

      • Lumelore (She/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        29 days ago

        Yeah everything’s fucked. I’m currently working retail but I have a computer science bachelor’s. I’ve been considering doing a pivot to teaching but everything’s so terrible now that idk if it’d really even be any better.

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        29 days ago

        everything not related to some grift (ai or ai adjacent, ice etc) or dod/dow or exploiting healthcare seems to be in a slump right now in America

        i wonder why, is it the stupid high fuel input costs or the fact non billionaires are so broke most spending is only immediately essential, or that no one wants to buy American goods post tariff and cutting all quality assurance post dodge fucker

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    30 days ago

    A college degree is the minimum requirement. You don’t get shit with the minimum.

    • Boo! Haunted House!@lemmy.world
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      29 days ago

      Yep, experience is what employers are looking for. It’s best for college students to work alongside getting a degree if they have the time and resources to do so, even if it’s a work study or internship.

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    30 days ago

    Heather Trott from EastEnders. That sparked some weird nostalgia.

    Never even liked EastEnders.

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    29 days ago

    so what you do is research what jobs are needed in your area and do a degree in that

    you have to keep up on this sadly all 4 years

    and even then you need to be willing to move and should probably take a generally applicable field like engineering

    all of this really requires some kind of support group at the age of 17/18

    beyond that you have to actually focus on learning the material at the oversped rate likely to the exclusion of anything remotely fun

    that said there are multiple job openings for system engineers starting post 4 year degree about 100k

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    29 days ago

    Guess what! You’ll get an even worse job if you don’t have a college degree!

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      29 days ago

      Don’t need a degree to be the oxygen generator fixer in the post apocolyptic hellscape (HVAC tech)

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        I used to get down on myself for getting into the trades and not going back to school for computer science.

        My goodness, how your opionions can change.

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          Depends when this was, but computer science degree was a great choice 10 years ago. You would have been a senior or staff engineer by now, and even in the age of AI those are well paid and have good job security.

          Don’t get into CS now, junior positions are super hard to come by…

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            28 days ago

            Since we’re on the topic of timing the job market, isn’t now the best time to get into CS? In 4 to 8 years, there’ll be another hiring rush to straighten the LLM mess out, combined with retirements…

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    29 days ago

    Graduated with a biochemistry degree. Got rejected from everywhere I applied including, of all things, Taco Bell. Eventually took up the Queen’s shilling

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      29 days ago

      i know multiple people personally (4 atm) with some variation of a 4 year bio degree from a respectable program

      none of them work in their field

      most one was making was like 35k a year in a lab with a directly relevant degree, quit after 6 months

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    29 days ago

    Those universities should be sued for decieving kids into lifelong debt slavery on false promises of employment with their degrees.

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    28 days ago

    This meme is me but thinking I had job security for working somewhere for over twenty years. Now I’m laid off for almost a year and this job market sucks with only niche it support experience. Moving to trades isn’t feasible at my age and I’ve no idea what the future holds with AI in the tech industry ands knowledge/office jobs in general.

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    29 days ago

    OH, and once you actually get a good job in the USA – you can get laid off at any time for no reason and it’s completely out of your control.

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    29 days ago

    Students: I want to study science and make the world a better place!

    Modern society: Rolls a die. Best we can do is Burger King.