Aside from hard science and engineering degrees where the technical knowledge is a foundation for what you'll learn in industry, a college degree is simply a piece of paper that says "I received a balanced education and have my life together enough to focus, manage time, and complete tasks reliably for 4 years straight." Rarely do you ever use most of the knowledge you gained in college besides the aforementioned life management skills.
To be fair I feel like college is way less about teaching you anything specific and way more about teaching you critical thinking and abstract conceptualization.
Like I didn't learn jack shit from my "American economical development in the 14th century" class but I did genuinely get good at telling good sources from bad ones while writing essays, and that IS a skill that has uses in life
Normalize lying to employers.
They lie to you all the time so fuck it.
Don't you know? Jobs work like prestige classes. You have to max your level and then you need to reset everything to be qualified. Age too, that's where we get all the 20 year olds with 30 years of experience.
Besides, you are 30 already, yet have only 10 years experience. We are looking for at least 25 years for someone your age
people always act like you're going to directly use stuff you learned in class "in the field" (think about how antiquated that term is, my god) and you're really not; every place has different standards and expectations. and the day-to-day is usually more trivial and doable than the raw theory in school -- i feel like most people could do most jobs if trained well by someone competent at them
The difference is regardless of whether you directly use what you learned in college or not, you have gained experience and tools that will help you in your future endeavors.
I read this sort of thing as: Forget what you were taught because we’re going to reshape you to help you succeed in this position, but DON’T forget how you learned, what tools and concepts you used along the way, connections built, etc.
You have to understand the core building blocks you became familiar with still apply one way or another. All of that hardship helped you build experience and understanding which enabled you to enter the industry of your choice and get a job where they start to mold you in a way that benefits the work you were hired to do.
If you don’t go to college you didn’t have all of those building blocks from approved curriculums and standardized testing, in person labs, team projects, etc.
You can achieve without college no question but that usually means the job will need to do potentially even more molding to get a person to a similar spot. Not always but much of the time.
"Forget everything..."
Way ahead of you buddy. I literally got like amnesia, a day after the qualifying exam for college.
Life is a game unfortunately. Play the game by the rules, win the game.
i just lie about my degree, works everytime
it's not what you learnt but how you learnt it.. or so they say, anyway
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