What are you academic accomplishments, robots? I have a bachelor's degree in history, and I'm halfway done with my history master's degree. It's become increasingly clear I made a mistake not going for a vocation (STEM isn't possible for me, I'm mathtarded) and today I started looking into getting a handgun so I can off myself. Turns out they're pretty cheap, so I guess that's what I'm doing with my life.
What about ya'll?
Bachelor's in Political Science, and a Master of Public Administration
I spend all day reading VNs and playing video games
>>27446945
I was considering going into debt after my history MA for public administration so I could find a real job - how has it been for you? What do you do?
>>27446911
computer science, jsut started bachelor without knowing shit. Turns out typing stuff and building calculators isnt complex, just fucking exhausting.
Gonna break soon and get on neetbux
>why kill yourself, when you can use the last days being comfy all day
I took a one year trades program and I'm currently an apprentice electrician. I'll likely get another trade in a few years as it may become possible to apprentice in two trades at the same time. Also never too late, pussy.
Don't off yourself. You don't need to work in your field of study. Several jobs don't even care if you have a degree and if you do, they don't care what it is in as long as you are a good match for the part. There are people getting far worse degrees just because.
>>27446959
Bachelor's in PA here, dont go for it, its a waste of time and money
>>27446963
How do you plan on getting neetbux? I have a few friends with CS degrees and they have it pretty good, honestly - they work 3-4 hours out of every workday and have flexible schedules. Seems like a good alternative to genuinely horrible wageslavery.
>>27446978
Awesome, man. I have a pal who's a Union electrician and he does relatively well when work is plentiful. I have a ton of respect for people who work with their hands and have practical, applicable skills. I just don't think I have the capacity, inherently, to actually accomplish anything as productive and difficult as a real trade.
>>27446992
My pipe dream would be to find my way into government bureaucracy or the non-profit sector, but that seems foolishly naive in a statistical sense.
>>27446911
B.A. in English
Currently unemployed 3 months after graduation, so I have another 3 months until the feds come knocking to pay debts. I play video games and fap all day every day to try to forget about how much of a loser I am who will never accomplish anything in life
>>27446959
I managed to find a part time job working for a city. It's pretty hard. I'd really advise getting a job first, and then getting an MPA, for anyone considering that route... they put way more emphasis on experience than your education for these jobs.
Also, if you're a white male good luck getting hired over women and minorities for government jobs
>>27447084
To add a little more I literally blew the fuck out everyone else in my MPA program. I was way better at writing, research, practically everything. Yet they all had full time jobs and I was unemployed, and couldn't find shit because I had no "experience"
>>27446963
computer science fag here. not sure wht PCs are you building, but i haven't built any in 3 years.
working part time as software development - shit gets really boring after a while. and that comes from someone who likes programming and went straight for it
>>27447084
>>27447117
Yeah, that sounds about right. I'm top in my MA program in terms of writing and research skills, but it sounds like that won't figure into my job search in any real way. What a fucking bummer. I guess once I finish my history degree I'll still have the handgun if I can't find any kind of work at all.
>>27447083
Consider graduate school. If you were a good undergraduate student, you'll be a competitive candidate for a TA position and the associated funding. It'll let you postpone the crushing misery, ennui, and horror of life after college.
>>27446911
Geography BSc
I have some Big 4 job offers but I might just do a TEFL qualification and teach English abroad and seduce some Asian qts
>>27447071
That's a good goal but don't be deadset on it. Think about other careers you think you'd enjoy and start looking around for entry level gigs. As long as you keep an open mind and work hard you will be fine.
I dropped out of college last year. Now I'm poor and about to kill myself.
I won a geography bee and some quiz bowl shit in elementary school. I peaked in 5th grade intellectually.
I just have a high school diploma. I work at In-N-Out Burger. The pay obviously isn't spectacular but I make enough to share a house with a few friends. I've thought about pursuing higher education but it's too easy not to.
>>27446911
You should have done math faggot.
>>27447216
What do you mean by "big 4"? Geography is something I'm pretty unfamiliar with - what kind of opportunities come with a degree in the field? I'm assuming it's a much harder science than humanities-style geography.
>>27447233
Thanks for the advice man. I really hope so, I'm plagued by anxiety about my future and it makes me feel despairing and hopeless.
I'm almost 25 and only have a GED to my name
>>27446911
Masters in CS currently lonely NEET shut-in for the last 4 years because I don't want to go outside or let people see me.
>>27447311
I can't, at least not well. I have clinically diagnosed dyscalculia, the equivalent of dyslexia, but for arithmetic. I wish I could've done something productive, being condemned to a life of poverty and misery isn't exactly a gratifying feeling.
>>27447272
Are you a NEET, or working a shitty job? Why did you drop out?
>>27447305
>but it's too easy not to.
How old are you anon? I think you'll find once you hit 25 or so, a hedonistic minimum wage life will start feeling less and less "easy".
>HS dropout
>currently NEET
>will figure something out when the time comes
All I need out of life can be obtained with minimum wage and/or my mother
Doing Geography because I'm good at that human science type stuff + second most Employable degree in my country (UK)
>>27447315
Totally normal. Not a single person I know myself included didn't go through the "oh shit I'm about to graduate and enter the real world and jobs are slim" slump. My advice would be to start looking NOW and get your resume together and polished while you still have university resources to help you out. You can never get an early enough start.
>>27447315
Big 4 accountancy firms - PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and EY. They do other professional services and consulting as well
Not really any specific opportunities, it's just a general degree similar to history. Majority of people either go into accountancy/consulting/PR or stay on to convert to law.
At my uni you spend the first year doing both physical and human geography, then you get to specialise in your 2nd and 3rd years (and that decides whether you receive a BA or a BSc). I'm focusing on GIS as that's where the money is, but not really enjoying it.
Kind of at a standstill as to what to do with my life, I really don't want a corporate job and watch my life drain away. But I don't want to be a poor NEETbux faggot. I am genuinely strongly considering TEFL - why don't you consider this too? Seems like it might suit you
>>27447386
Where did you get that statistic from? I'm doing Geography as well and it's definitely not true. Most the well paid jobs are STEM-only
I only have a High School diploma, but I'm pretty close to my commercial pilot's license. I've never attended any formal university or college although I probably will at some point.
>>27446911
Master's degree in Law, and I'm gonna do fuck all with it. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that everyone turns me down because my resume is an empty sheet of paper, even the places offering internships I could use to fill up all the blank space.
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna end up being a garbage man or something.
>>27447408
Yeah, I went through that when I first got my bachelor's and wasn't sure whether graduate school was in the mix for me. It was a terrible feeling.
You're right, though. I need to motivate myself and find an internship for the summer and start networking properly. I'm just so depressed it's hard to do anything, honestly. It's not that there isn't anything I want to do with my life, it's that I don't want to do anything at all.
>>27447416
It sounds like geography overlaps a lot with history (I mean it makes sense, they're intimately related.) What do you mean by GIS? I assume that's a permutation of physical geography that is more employable in the age of big data and computer analysis?
>Kind of at a standstill as to what to do with my life, I really don't want a corporate job and watch my life drain away. But I don't want to be a poor NEETbux faggot. I am genuinely strongly considering TEFL - why don't you consider this too? Seems like it might suit you
I want the corporate or cubicle job with some opportunities for advancement, honestly. Life drains away no matter what you do, and attaining a degree of financial security seems like the best possible option out of a spectrum of shitty life paths.
As for the TEFL, I'm too much of a coward to do that. I'm 26 and I haven't moved out of my parents attic - I couldn't just jet across the world and teach English in a totally unfamiliar context. That would be too much for my fragile constitution to bear.
My brother has a master's in history from the same program I'm at and he actually taught English in China for a year. He had some personal problems that effected his experience, but he says he probably wouldn't do it again even if his personal life had been in order. I honestly don't understand how he summoned the gumption to do something that drastic.
>>27447449
That is very cool, anon. It seems like you have something practical and respectable lined up. Do you want to work for airlines?
>>27447671
Yeah it's just a mix of geography and computer science and can lead to some good jobs in big data or for oil/mining companies - although I'd have to do a masters degree in it to get employed which I'm not sure I want to
What did your brother not like about it?
Also don't kill yourself, as boring and uninteresting life can be, I think it's a lot more exciting than death
>>27446911
Got a bachelor's in neuroscience. I tried, but I ended up doing fuck all with it. I feel cheated. Educated, but cheated.
>>27447800
> although I'd have to do a masters degree in it to get employed which I'm not sure I want to
Can you find funding for a masters? Maybe one of the companies you mentioned will pay for it. It sounds like you have some pretty good options open, desu.
>What did your brother not like about it?
He just said it was difficult living in a country so incredibly foreign, alone and trying to contend with the weird regulations and expectations of Chinese culture. He didn't make much money and stopped learning Chinese when he came home, I think the experience taught him he wanted to stay in the United States. He teaches high school now, and is married and bought a house with his wife. I envy him.
>Also don't kill yourself, as boring and uninteresting life can be, I think it's a lot more exciting than death
Well, unless I fail this semester, I still have a year before I'm going to deepthroat the barrel of a pistol. But you're right, death is pure oblivion, and is something I should keep in reserve for when everything else fails. I guess that just feels inevitable.
>>27447362
>How old are you anon?
I'm 20. A lot of the people I work with are in their 30s or close to it.
And In-N-Out pays more than minimum wage.
>>27447800
>I think it's a lot more exciting than death
Yeah, because you've been dead before and so you can tell us all what it's like, right? Lol
Stupid fuck.
>>27447906
I've been there. I worked retail when I was your age (19-21) and then again the summer after college, where most people I worked with were in their 30s and later. It felt good for a few years, but I went back to school when I realized there was no future there, smoking weed and taking drugs while working a low-skill, low-prestige job.
I was also making more than minimum wage when I quit (about $10), but it's just not enough. I'm glad you're happy where you are right now though, anon, and I hope things work well for you.
>>27447159
howd you get into software dev?
>>27447915
You weren't alive before you were born, so you were dead.
>education
AHAAHAAHAHAHA
Last I checked you didn't need one for a lifetime career at Neetbux Inc.
>>27447915
Death is just a void of nothingness, so I'd rather be shitposting on 4chan and eating doritos
>>27446911
I'm one semester from finishing my Masters in English, two classes left.
I do have a great job grading tests from home. I'm still not sure if I want to keep it as a career. Most of the supervisors have been there 10+ years and make $30+/hr, vs the $20/hr you get as a regular grader. Which is as much as I ever aspired to for a wage. But I've always wanted to be an academic, and I'm attending conferences and submitting for publication as if I'm still going for that.
Basically I'm not sure if I want to stay in the comfy job working as an independent scholar or shoot harder for academia by getting a PhD at a good institution. There are two choices nearby, one with less fit but more respectability, one with best fit but ranked ~60 spots lower. I'd choose the later for non-academia route, the former for it.
I guess it'll depend on what funding offers, if any, I get from either.
>>27446911
BS in Accounting
MBA
have a desk job with the US govt, pays well but drives me insane, I'd rather be a neet but too over-educated
I've got two bachelors. One in biology, one in Japanese. I'm working as a freelance translator right now, but I live with my parents and have no drive at all. I just don't really have a reason to live aside from not wanting to be dead. Where the fuck do people find motivation to do shit?
Oh, and my degrees are basically useless. I only got the Jap shit degree so I could study abroad, and I lost all motivation to get my phd with biology.
How can I become a normie sheep?
I'm a different story I guess.
I have a state exam in English/German/Art studies. (that is the equivalent of a Masters degree in all three subjects)
I wanted to become a school teacher, but this whole country is on the brink of societal downgrade + I tend to hate people, especially teenagers. I'm basically no different than I was 11 years ago when I had no school education at all. (literally nothing. I just dropped out of middle school lel)
I have absolutely no idea what to do. My degree is double worthless because I think most countries do not even acknowledge it, since it doesn't say 'Master' on it, despite being quite a bit higher. I basically wasted my youth completely and I come from a super ghetto family. It's an illusion that a degree will make you step up the social ladder. You can't change your social class. I should have just left school back then and become a low wage worker, do a few extra hours each day and save money. I would have been a lot better off. I learned that 'higher education' is nothing else but a mafia scheme that extorts money from you. Pretty much the same as some TV commercial show after midnight that tries to sell you dishwasher soap for a fortune.
>>27447448
I was always under the assumption that geography fit in with the STEM subjects.
>>27446911
>High School diploma
College is for people who fool themselves into believing that they'll be happier with more stress and responsibility in their lives.
>>27446911
I'm not good at math, and I'm doing a STEM degree because it's what I want to do with my life.
I wouldn't have come to college if I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I have a clear goal I want to be at so these are the steps I have to take.
The people that are going to college, and don't know what they want to do confuse me. Just get a job? That's ultimately the end goal. Why are you giving your life to a college if you have no goal.
If you have a job you could at least have a goal to save up to buy a real doll or all of your favorite anime collector figurines.
but I get it.. I do. You build it up in your mind, and to your family that you're going to go to school, and get a degree and it builds into this huge thing where you think if you don't continue on that path you, and others will see you as a failure. Which is true in a sense, but do what the fuck you want to do. What do you want to do with the rest of your life?
I'm a weldor, and I specialize in TIG. I've got a new job coming up, manufacturing custom restaurant appliances.
I fucking love it. Depending on the kind of welding, sometimes you never even have to talk to people. 10/10 trade imo
>>27449756
My problem is that I got into college not really sure what I wanted to do, so I went with biology and hoped to narrow down into a specific field later. As I continued to study and get closer to graduation, I continued to rule things out. Lots of things. Eventually I had ruled out every option that was available to me (in my current track) and then I graduated. My degree as it is does nothing. I need to go back to school for a masters or doctorate to actually use it - but you can't "try things out" at that level. You have to get into a very specific program doing research in a very specific field.
So what the fuck do I do now? Do I take a stab in the dark and risk ending up back where I am now? Do I go back and get yet another bachelors degree in hopes that I find the field I want to pursue? My family is done supporting me. They want me to get a job and can't fathom that a bachelors degree means nothing. Suicide is looking better every day.
Bachelors degree in dietetics, did ROTC in college, graduated debt free and commissioned into the army. I make a bit over $100,000 a year with benefits now.
>>27449991
You could always do a trade, you could weld, you could do web security. Everything is your choice, but you have to decide where you want to take it.
who male robot yet NURSING MAJOR here?
B.S. in CompSci/Math
Currently a software engineer wageslave. Going pretty well so far.
>>27450475
I want to into soft dev pls help anon
Where can I start to just make simple apps for the android and apple store? I just want to live the comfy NEET life and not be poor while doing so. Please, I'm 19 and I have 20k debt from general uni studies already, goingback this fall, need some guidance. I have one week to choose my major and was thinking CS major, Business Admin Minor, Music Minor (I play cello and guitar, this is for a hobby).
>>27450521
> Apple
Download XCode, read up on Swift.
> Android
Download any IDE you want (Eclipse is popular but fucking bulky). Read up on Java.
For resources look up /g/'s Gentooman library. If you're going to develop apps, you'll need to make a shit ton of them and hope one strikes gold. Alternately, you can work for some major company and work remotely. YMMV on this, usually it requires a few years of in-office work before they'll trust you to get shit done remotely. There are smaller gigs that are 100% remote but are much less forgiving for fucking up.
Hope that at least points you in the right direction.
> 22
> Terrible with math all throughout school; still can't do basic functions to this day
> Only reason I managed to not fail middle/high school was because the district didn't want me to look bad, so they passed me but gave me an IEP, classifying me as a special ed student
> Case manager told my mother that I shouldn't even bother "looking into 'real' college"
> Graduate high school
> Unable to go to local community college due to extreme anxiety and them forcing a (remedial) math course on me
> Every other option is a for-profit diploma mill
Feels bad. It's extremely embarrassing never having gone to college. I've actually had people mock me and look down on me because of it.
D.D.S, Doctorates in Dental Surgery. A robot staring at the insides of mouths all day.
Inb4 not a real doctor
NEET who's an HS drop out.
Education since then has been
>Khan Academy
>C++ tutorial site and book
I haven't even watch a khan academy video in so long, I'm incredibly bad at keeping discipline.
>Bachelor's in CS
>fell for the meme
>working minimum wage job
>have to decide each week between paying student loans, getting drunk or finally purchasing a gun
>>27450686
m8 i did horrible in math in school...but i almost got a minor in math in uni because i accepted that i have to take a bunch of math classes and i worked hard on them. i got shitty grades, but i passed and now have a decent background in math compared to the general population.
>>27450694
I'll be honest anon that sounds worse than most generic wageslave jobs. Hope the money's good.
>>27446911
M.D. Guess I'm gonna try residence for Psychiatry then do clinical practice till I get bored, then perhaps Doctorate if I feel like it, or become a writer.
>>27449542
>GetALoadOfThisHotHead.jpg
You're joking right? The main pull for STEM degrees is their mathematical and computing elements. What's the most complex maths in geography? Finding the mean of some data?
>>27450781
The moneys great, it's a very physical job. I think medicine is made for robots.
>High School diploma
>going nowhere
For there to be a top, there has to be a bottom.
My role lies at the bottom. And I'm ok with that.
Ba in poli sci, currently pursuing a bs in comp sci.
I was pretty lost after uni and hated my life working at walmart (poor decisions + recession). I found an out in teaching English in asia and did that a few years back. Still doing that and have a pretty comfortable lifestyle now. Gonna move back to the us next year. Its been a fun ride but in nearing the pay ceiling in my field and would prefer to make more than 50k some day.
I have a bachelor's degree in classical guitar. And yes, i am broke. But i don't blame the degree for my shitty networking skills and lack of motivation to put myself out there.
>>27447083
are you me? I graduate with a ba in english a few months
>>27447159
>computer science
>building PCs
Wow, you must genuinely be retarded.
>>27446911
Mechanical Engineer master discipline reporting in. Suicide is a less optimal solution to your current predicament. So far you've only posted that you're educated in history. This is not worthy of becoming an hero. Try your hand at some skilled labor. immediately the electrician profession comes to mind.
>>27452022
my fellow guitarist. who you study with ?
