(09-08-2016, 11:41 AM)OdinYggd Wrote: [ -> ]The worst. The absolute worst. Get out of there before you end up deeper in debt than you ever thought possible.
1. Computer anything degrees are completely useless. Everything they taught you is already 3-5 years outdated, and will be even moreso by the time you actually hit the workforce.
2. College is your own choice to make, not your parents. Don't ever let parents push you into it before you are ready, because you will be stuck with the bill for the next 20 years or more.
3. A degree does not guarantee you a job. It doesn't make you worth more either, despite everyone thinking it does. Nope, its just a completely worthless scrap of paper that proves you believed what you were told and put yourself deep in debt for next to no benefit at all because your parents told you it would be worth it.
Its not worth it. Cold reality. Perspective of a bitter old man here who is still paying his college debt years later while working a job that anyone with a passion for could do just as well.
Oh and I do a lot of engineering, on a pretty high level too. Electromechanical engineering even, exactly what I went to college for. I ran out of money before I could get my degree, yet I've found a nice job where not only am I hands on with the equipment and out there talking to the people building it, but I'm actually designing it and rarely having to put up with management gutting my design for cost reasons because they want it cheaper.
All this week I'll be engineering a machine enclosure- a series of moving panels to protect workers from the flying debris the machines produce that will automatically move out of the way so the workers can change workpieces or replace tools. Surprisingly sophisticated automation engineering, alongside a mechanical engineer that doesn't have a degree either, and a team of welders and machinists to bring it to life.
Once again, no debt. I have A LOT of money saved up for this exact purpose, and I'm not stupid enough to take loans (no offense intended).
1. I'm aware. They actually made us aware that mostly everything we learn will be outdated within three years. Does it mean I can just bugger off? No.
2. Incorrect. I live with my mother. She wants me to go to College. If I don't go to College, then she will be very unhappy with me. Ergo, I'm going to College.
3. Once again, I know how stupid it is. I never wanted to go for this very reason, among others, but everyone around me still believes this fallacy, and won't accept "that's not how it is" as an answer.
She has stated that I don't have to stay in College if I can't handle the stress, but if I can't handle College how am I ever going to handle a full-time job? My one avenue of exit would prove without a definitive doubt that I'm exactly as practically useless at anything requiring long-term strong effort as I believe myself to be, and I can't do that.
My only other option that would satisfy Mom is to get a
good job without College, proving that I don't need it. Of course, the chances of a socially inept, physically weak person like me finding any such thing that I can do is
frighteningly low at
best, ESPECIALLY within a reasonable amount of time on this relatively small island, since I have no really standout skills, just the general knowledge I've taught myself and learned from school over the years.
So yeah, good advice, mostly stuff I know already, all stuff I can't follow. Whoopdedoo.
HAHAHA.
OKAY WORLD. I GET IT. YOU HATE ME.
So my day wasn't as bad as the previous two.
So the world decided to wait until Mom went out to throw a spider ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF MY FIST at me.
It WAS next to my computer chair on the ground. I jumped and ran out of the room. I came back in. It was gone.
So there is a VERY LARGE VERY FAST spider somewhere in my very large room with a lot of hiding places.
Aaaaaaand I have no idea where it is. I could have trapped it too if I'd stayed calm, damnit.
I can't bring myself to crush large spiders. It squicks me out too much. But oh! We have this One Shot spider spray that kills them in seconds!
...So I went out into the back shed to grab it... AND THERE'S ANOTHER LIVING SPIDER OF ALMOST EQUAL SIZE NEXT TO IT. AND NOT THE SAME ONE.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA