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somebody has to conduct museum tours
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Lol I wish...
Started as a liberal arts, switched to general studies then accounting....then ended up getting a degree in finance......
Went to a few interviews and realized I do not want to do this at all......then decided to go get an MBA till I figured it out.
Then didn't.
My biggest mistake was not leaving the smallness of central ny. I had a warped view of things. College to me was just something I had to do so I could get a job......never really looked at the whole thing deeper than that.
If I a flux capacitor I would have cared about more than baseball in high school, then went to Los Angeles, Toronto or Austin for film school.
Oh well, my loans are not too bad because I worked 30 hours a week in a grocery store....but I still have them.
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I have a cousin who is finishing up some sort of doctoral program I guess in art restoration.
He has been traveling all over restoring all this stuff it's actually really interesting.
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he learned a unique skill. smart boy. I have a niece who just graduated from UW-Madison with a degree in mechanical engineering. The degree + the fact that she's a woman (diversity!) has companies climbing over each other to hire her. She'll probably start a family in a few years and throw it all away.
I made the same mistake. I wish I had left and majored in film. Instead I majored in Business Management because I had no idea what I wanted to do but knew I had to go to college. I also felt pressured to after going to an expensive private highschool.
Math isn't my forte either. I struggled with several classes.
Just stupid. I've often sat at this job and thought "I went to school for 4 years for this?" I wish I could go back and major in something that really interests me.
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All of the regrets
Recent U.S. college graduates disillusioned, more than 40% unemployed
More than 40 percent of recent U.S. college graduates are underemployed or need more training to get on a career track, a poll released on Tuesday showed.
The online survey of 1,050 workers who finished school in the past two years and 1,010 who will receive their degree in 2013 also found that many graduates, some heavily in debt because of the cost of their education, say they are in jobs that do not require a college degree.
Thirty-four percent said they had student loans of $30,000 or less, while 17 percent owed between $30,000 to $50,000.
"For our nation's youngest workers, as well as for the workforce at large, there is a real need for employers to reexamine how they hire, train and develop their employees," said Katherine Lavelle, of the global management consulting firm Accenture, which conducted the survey.
Nearly half, 42 percent, of recent graduates expect they will need an advanced degree to further their career and almost a quarter are already planning to take graduate courses.
More than half of graduates said it was difficult finding a job, but 39 percent were employed by the time they left college. Sixty eight percent said they are working full time, while 16 percent are in part-time positions.
The top industries that graduates wanted to work in were education, media and entertainment and healthcare.
Just over half, 53 percent, of graduates found full-time jobs in their field of study.
In addition to being underemployed many graduates thought they would have done better in the job market if they had studied a different major, and more than half also intended to go back to school within the next five years.
The survey uncovered a gap between what students expect to earn in their first job and their actual salary. Only 15 percent of this year's graduates think they will earn less than $25,000 but a third of recent graduates said they make that amount or less.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...employed-poll-article-1.1331346#ixzz2Uhz3JV4q
More than 40 percent of recent U.S. college graduates are underemployed or need more training to get on a career track, a poll released on Tuesday showed.
The online survey of 1,050 workers who finished school in the past two years and 1,010 who will receive their degree in 2013 also found that many graduates, some heavily in debt because of the cost of their education, say they are in jobs that do not require a college degree.
Thirty-four percent said they had student loans of $30,000 or less, while 17 percent owed between $30,000 to $50,000.
"For our nation's youngest workers, as well as for the workforce at large, there is a real need for employers to reexamine how they hire, train and develop their employees," said Katherine Lavelle, of the global management consulting firm Accenture, which conducted the survey.
Nearly half, 42 percent, of recent graduates expect they will need an advanced degree to further their career and almost a quarter are already planning to take graduate courses.
More than half of graduates said it was difficult finding a job, but 39 percent were employed by the time they left college. Sixty eight percent said they are working full time, while 16 percent are in part-time positions.
The top industries that graduates wanted to work in were education, media and entertainment and healthcare.
Just over half, 53 percent, of graduates found full-time jobs in their field of study.
In addition to being underemployed many graduates thought they would have done better in the job market if they had studied a different major, and more than half also intended to go back to school within the next five years.
The survey uncovered a gap between what students expect to earn in their first job and their actual salary. Only 15 percent of this year's graduates think they will earn less than $25,000 but a third of recent graduates said they make that amount or less.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...employed-poll-article-1.1331346#ixzz2Uhz3JV4q
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college definitely isn't for everyone. i think the ideal thing for 18-22 year olds is to work a low paying job in the industry they are interested in first. you can bounce around and try things and be a part of the atmosphere you're potentially going to work in for good. from there, then you can look at college as an investment, not just something to do since you're told to or everyone else is.
i say this from experience and as someone who still has $50k left in student loans. there isn't a second i regret going to school after being laid off from my job at 23. it's one of the better decisions i've made in my 20's.
i say this from experience and as someone who still has $50k left in student loans. there isn't a second i regret going to school after being laid off from my job at 23. it's one of the better decisions i've made in my 20's.
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I have a degree, but most of my friends that started with a company right after high school, and still work there, make more money than myself. In many ways, college is overrated, but completely necessary. As far as the money goes, it's costing WAY TOO MUCH these days.
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All levels of education serve as a good example of the problem with thinking a one-size-fits-all society is possible. All things being equal, despite differing levels of capacity, interest and opportunity. Humanity isn't engineered that way and social engineering always ends up with more problems than it can ever hope to create.
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Not necessarily a skill, but experience. Unless you're deemed too old, then companies won't hire you anyways.
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Go to community college, pay like 15% the cost of a university's semester, figure out what you want do career wise, and then transfer. You'll still owe money, but won't be in the mountain of debt that you would if you jumped straight into a big school.
Or if you lack the stamina for any type of advanced learning after high school, get apprenticed.
I wish I had learned of the latter a long time ago. I could be retiring comfortably at 55 or so. Now I have to wait till I'm in my 60s.
Or if you lack the stamina for any type of advanced learning after high school, get apprenticed.
I wish I had learned of the latter a long time ago. I could be retiring comfortably at 55 or so. Now I have to wait till I'm in my 60s.