Well, the link to sh.itjust.works doesn't load for me.
Its Buzz lightyear saying: Years of Academy training wasted!
How are we supposed to get industry experience otherwise?
Businesses aren’t hiring without a degree unless you have four years of industry experience to replace the degree.
Plus, we get an internship during college to get some of both.
Still don’t get hired after graduating.
It’s fucked!
You are supposed to either already have connections, or be forced to adapt your skills to create connections.
Ya know, they just want to make sure you’re one of them first and not one of the others
I honestly need to work more on my connecting. Hopefully not any time soon but that networking gives me hella anxiety
Where and when you're searching plays into it.
If you're looking for postings, you'll have an easier time finding a job, but a harder time getting it, because there's so much competition.
If you're searching right after graduation, so's the rest of your class, and you have to compete with them.
If you're hitting up relevant companies in hopes that they can hire you, you'll have a harder time finding a place with an opening, but once you do, the competition is near zero. You need only prove you're a good fit.
That's because we told them that there would be jobs on the other side of that debt.
Just lie your way in. Worry about how to do the job later.
You just finished 17+ years of education and invested a small fortune into yourself. If that isn't enough for a career with a living wage and the possibility of advancement, what's the point?
My first employer out of college told me explicitly they hired me because I was willing to stick with a 4 year program, and though I didn’t have experience they were confident I’d stick around enough to be trained. I got an art degree and it was a computer science job 🤔
You can be trained to code and probably came cheap. Companies willing to invest in people are very rare in this day and age.
This is a weirdly reductionist take. Implying that anyone can be "trained to code" seems to imply that coding is a rote skill that can be easily trained into anyone, completely dismissing the fact that some brains will just inherently do better at it than others. Also the generalization you make about companies that are willing to to train their potential hires is not true everywhere.
Congrats, I spent a stupid amount of effort trying to do just that, ended up breaking into other industries.
That was how it was marketed. Explain to me how there's not a class action lawsuit there. I remember a woman in a pantsuit with a university lanyard around her neck coming into a high school class to give a presentation about how many millions more dollars a college graduate makes. There are people in this world whose death I would celebrate with a prolonged dance involving a significant amount of hip thrusting. Hers is one of them, if I knew who she was.
A minimum 4 year commitment was supposed to make you more valuable in the job market. That was the entire point or at least the message broadcasted. If a degree isn't conducive to large potential for at least a 30% increase in wages, what's the point of that time invested? Either institutes are adequately designed to promote this or they're effectively useless in a practical sense.
In hindsight I would have been much happier, healthier and wealthier if I had just gotten a construction job or something after HS instead of torturing myself through a CS degree lmao
Having worked construction for a few years before getting my IT degree:
[X] Doubt
Yep. Was a welder, now a software dev. There are pros and cons to both, but overall I'm way happier now.
That said, this is anecdotal - different strokes and all that.
I've grown up doing hard manual labor most of my free time and let me tell ya, I vastly prefer that over taking exams and being stressed 24/7 for years.
It'd be nice if we didn't have to pigeon-hole ourselves into one skillset in order to survive.
But think of the shareholders!
Classic case of grass is greener on the other side.
Yep. The grass is greenest where you water it.
When I was an undergrad my professors put a big emphasis on developing a portfolio of work and picking up experience where we could before graduation. For me that meant freelancing a few times a month while working a part time job along with class. Internships are great, but everyone had to have one to graduate from my program. A degree will set you up, but a portfolio of work and related experience will help set you apart.
"Degree required. Must have 10 years experience." -- Every job available
You'll also need ten years of programming experience in a language that has only existed for 2 years.
I joined the military after I had run out of money for college, and out of sheer luck ended up in a job vastly preferable to what I had been going to college for (military aviation search and Rescue vs. Band teacher). Now I'm getting on in years with lots of work experience and no degree, and people in my work are constantly getting poached by avionics and aviation companies (one guy was about 8 years from retirement, where he'd get a paycheck for the rest of his life at 40 years old, did the math, and found he'd make more over his life with the company poaching him).
I'm not saying the military is a good choice for everyone, but in the "get paid while getting experience" thing, it can work out pretty well depending on the field. And if you get into cybersecurity, you'll end up with at least Secret clearance, which is a hot commodity if you can secure a job straight out of getting out of the military.
Just don't be, like... infantry or admin. Have a plan going in for getting out.
My nephew joined the Marines, wanting to be in infantry. His recruiter spent months fixing his brain and convinced him to pursue avionics instead. Really smart kid and he's finally understanding how he's setting himself up well when he gets out. He's still in B or C school or whatever it's called.
It's been 7 months for me and in all that time I got one job offer that they ultimately gave to someone else. The pain is real...
The degree will get you the interview. Experience will get you the job.
Unfortunately it's hard to get in the door without one.
Co-ops, work study, volunteer work, even self employment cannot be understated. They're not necessarily looking at if you have done the job, but how you've handled situations. De-escalation, customer service, team work, taking initiative, and reasoning are all good things to mention during an interview.
Read the job description, research the company, be prepared to ask questions to show engagement, and be prepared to show how your life experience has prepared you for the work.
And be sure to say thank you and send a follow up email or two!
It certainly helps.
Yes :'( I thought degree and projects is all you need. I laughed at those lazy group members, but the joke is on me as some of them now have a job in CS and I don't (they had an IT job or relative in the industry) Here I'm going on 2 years and I'm still waiting for employers to line up. Or even just one one unsolicited which isn't spam. :'(
Oldie(ish) but still relevant: https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply
This is a very sad truth. I have a college degree and still don't have a job (or at least a job I actually want). That shit is useless.
