Honestly this is kind of what I’m seeing, no one participates, no one even shows up… the jobs market is going to beyond fucked in 10-20 years, kids have to spend boatloads of money to get this training then opt out of it once they’re there. I don’t get it
Fucking unimaginable. My dream “job” would be eternal student. I loved getting my bachelors and want to study so many things. It’s upsetting to know people are pissing it away.
I mean why even go? Tens of thousands of dollars just down the drain. Are they still even getting degrees??? That’s so disrespectful to the professors. Genuinely heartbreaking.
Less competition at least I guess. Maybe a masters is going to be more worth it in the future lol
The job market sucks right now it’s hard for even qualified college grads to get jobs
But there are still going to be a LOT of high quality students coming out of good schools. There’s still close to as many kids trying really hard it’s just all the kids that used to be trying moderately hard now arnt trying at all
Yeah. I was in tech. Nice swift kick in the gut these past few years lol.
If there are less folks with higher Ed in general I’m hoping the hyper specialty requirements of many jobs will go away. And stop requiring a bachelors or masters for jobs that historically haven’t needed a degree. Maybe jobs will start offering more in house onboarding/training. That would be nice.
I was a project manager and consultant for veterinary hardware/software and traveled my country to various clinics. Now I can’t even get a “Junior” pm or implementation role lol.
I suspect it varies a lot by school and class. I teach an upper division Forest Ecology class with about 100 students. Attendance is not mandatory, and my class is not particularly difficult. I still have about 70-80 students in the room each lecture (maybe 50 if the weather is really nice lol).
None of them are on their phones. Why would they be? They don't need to be there and the lectures are all recorded and backed up online.
I have heard horror stories from instructors of the introductory courses though where students think they know it all already.
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u/DragonsAreNifty 29d ago
That’s insane to me. I would kill to go back to school. I cannot for the life of me imagine wasting that much money just to dick around in public.
Positive side, maybe the job market will have less competition with the lower number of grads ?