I often hear that it’s not what you learned in college but rather that you have proven that you can regularly come sit in a place for hours for an extended amount of time out of your own free will.
It proves you’re willing to conform and participate in modern society. Without a degree (and the associated student debt), you come across as suspiciously free-thinking and unchained. 90% of corpo jobs is “fitting in” AKA professionalism work culture. Degrees also help gatekeep industries to the “truly committed” - can’t have people switching industries whenever they feel like it.
Imagine a world where employees can just… quit? At any time? And they have many available employment prospects? Unthinkable.
School put me off going to uni. I don’t need to spend even more hours learning about the fucking benefits and drawbacks of token ring networks.
Government tripling the cost of uni compared to the year before me was also a lot of it. Didn’t learn to drive because insurance alone was £2k which I didn’t have. Now you want me to spend £9k a year? Haha, nope.
They tried to make it sound better by saying its like the cost of going to Starbucks every day. That put me off Starbucks too.
No, but knowing how one works help you get a fuller understanding of data structures. And data structures is definitively something one will use and sometimes create (well, if you’re a back-end dev, anyway)
logically, but employers are rarely logical. Also the age old problem of literally everyone requiring “experience” so you can’t even get that employment history.
There may be the odd bureaucratic company here and there that can not overlook a missing degree because there is no procedure for it. Generally though, previous employment is proof enough.
Personally, I’d avoid the ones who demand to see one anyway because I wouldn’t be a good fit.
I often hear that it’s not what you learned in college but rather that you have proven that you can regularly come sit in a place for hours for an extended amount of time out of your own free will.
It proves you’re willing to conform and participate in modern society. Without a degree (and the associated student debt), you come across as suspiciously free-thinking and unchained. 90% of corpo jobs is “fitting in” AKA professionalism work culture. Degrees also help gatekeep industries to the “truly committed” - can’t have people switching industries whenever they feel like it.
Imagine a world where employees can just… quit? At any time? And they have many available employment prospects? Unthinkable.
It’s more your ability to learn. I will probably never need to make my own linked list but learning how to taught me what pointers are.
School put me off going to uni. I don’t need to spend even more hours learning about the fucking benefits and drawbacks of token ring networks.
Government tripling the cost of uni compared to the year before me was also a lot of it. Didn’t learn to drive because insurance alone was £2k which I didn’t have. Now you want me to spend £9k a year? Haha, nope.
They tried to make it sound better by saying its like the cost of going to Starbucks every day. That put me off Starbucks too.
No, but knowing how one works help you get a fuller understanding of data structures. And data structures is definitively something one will use and sometimes create (well, if you’re a back-end dev, anyway)
I think a lot of it is well roundedness and a good foundation for the later practical applications.
I learned basically no practical knowledge with my IT bachelors. But every IT class of my associates degree was a certification prep course.
Tbf, two year programs are great for specific careers.
Lol as a drop out I thought linked list and binary sort were the apex of programming and useful in all context.
ehh, even people that retain literally nothing can get through college to get a paper
Lol, lmao even. Depends on the major and the university/college 😂
Maybe YOUR college
Except for the 1/4 of my classes that I skipped and still passed
Surely having an employment history with jobs lasting more than a month also proves that?
logically, but employers are rarely logical. Also the age old problem of literally everyone requiring “experience” so you can’t even get that employment history.
There may be the odd bureaucratic company here and there that can not overlook a missing degree because there is no procedure for it. Generally though, previous employment is proof enough.
Personally, I’d avoid the ones who demand to see one anyway because I wouldn’t be a good fit.
It’s surprisingly an issue when getting workers through an agency
Yup. Can you be a slave?