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My degree is useless, finding a job is impossible
posted 1 year ago by Vulkanian on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +23Score on mirror )
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Currently work part-time as janitor while finishing my bs in cs and I make pennies, so I've been trying to find a new job for the last year and have gotten exactly NOTHING. This summer alone I must have applied to dozens of different places and it amounted to fuck all. So I thought, "well, maybe I should just wait until I graduate and try to find something", so I started looking into tech jobs.

EVERYTHING IS AT LEAST 2 YEARS EXPERIENCE. LICENSES IN THIS OR THAT. NEEDING COMPTIA A+ AND OTHER SHIT. Basically, if you aren't already experienced, get fucked. Even if I didn't hate coding, I couldn't find a entry level software job either, they ALL had similar bullshit requirements. The tech industry is so fucking oversaturated it's insane, why was I fed this lie that this was where the big money is? I wish I could go back in time and stop myself from going to college at all and instead go into a trade.

At this point, I don't know what to do. I hate this gay country.
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real_StarfishPrime on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Get a job at the Best Buy Geek Squad. Do it for a year and pass a couple Comptia certs or the MS ones. Now you’ll be able to get a lower level sysadmin job. You will now not be starving. If you’re lucky you’ll be at a big enough corp where you’ll notice a lot of lazy sysadmins and will easily be able to jump them and start coding for small things to help make your job easier. After a year or two move to a real sysadmin gig where you’ll be making a proper living. Either within the company or with a new one. After this you can keep moving in this direction or move to a coding gig or move towards a network engineering gig. All of these make a good living. You just don’t know the exact path until you start moving in this direction. I ended up moving to networking and made a great living wage. Enough to where I don’t have to do IT type work anymore. I’m not rich or retired, but have enough to work a shit hourly wage job and not be behind a monitor for 50+hrs/wk.
Oh, that’s another thing, you will get burned out eventually, so don’t buy the biggest house or expensive cars when you’re making lots of money. Save and buy assets and keep your living standards close to Walmart wages.
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