4 years getting a microbiology degree. Only 25 jobs in my area related to my degree. 75 if you include regular biology. I am so incredibly fucktarded and now I will have to work shit jobs for the rest of my life with 20k in debt.
I fell for the college scam
you have the potential to create the next big drug, next covid and microscopic assassination parasites
you must be willing to change area or change field of study
t immunology phd
i studied flipping burgers and make 7 figs now
Have you tried moving out of Frackville, Pennsylvania to a real city?
Milwaukee, WI buddy. And Chicago has less jobs from what I see on indeed.
WI
Should have studied cow milking or something.
Try Indianapolis (Eli Lilly) or accept that no Innovation happens anywhere in the Midwest and if you want a job that actually advances humanity forward you need to move to the east coast.
in my area
Anon...are you retarded? Or just graduated on time so you're just young? You are supposed to move for work...you apply to the best regardless (mostly) of area and you move where you get hired. This isn't medieval times where we are locked to the town we grew up in.
I have a biochemistry degree and graduated with zero debt because of scholarships/grants + some family and part time work money. You should have done more laboratory work at school while you were still there. There are a lot of entry/low level jobs here in New Jersey but the pay is often shit but obviously if you got a degree like that, you should already know the money isn't spectacular.
microbio is only good if you're going down the PHD rabbit-hole but really you should go to grad school and become a MD, dentist or podiatrist (grossly underlooked profession)
I fell for the college meme degree and the endless job interviews and shitty jobs have ruined me. My self esteem, my confidence, everything. Youth wasted at the library. Just waiting to die.
You should have done more laboratory work at school while you were still there.
this holds true for most college degrees. if you're in college you do need to spend extra time outside of class doing any kind of work in the field you want to work in for 2 years and then when you come out of college you'll be mr big balls. if you just do your work and chill in college you'll basically just be starting late. 2 years of work in your preferred field during college means you're well ahead once you grad.
i think this is obvious knowledge by now but idk maybe not by the sound of you
You'll be surprised how many people go to higher education, do absolutely nothing beyond their school work and somehow think they're set after graduation. The obsession with letter grades is crazy among students and some professors even encourage the bullshit. You have to go out of your way to gain actual experience where this is sometimes even gatekept because you haven't sucked enough cocks. That's just the way it is.
Did you at least get the college experience and fuck hot 18-22 year olds???
That's just the way it is.
This just got me thinking, past generations didn't have to go through all this bullshit just to be able to earn a decent wage. It seems we are just working harder and harder in order to earn a wage that is made up of a currency that is losing it's purchasing power every single year...all the while the cost of living continues to increase over time, it's absolute madness.
its certainly a death spiral
at some point, it wont self-sustain
Not only in the labour market but everywhere. You can add a max suffix to everything.
So what are some realistic solutions?
Crypto.
reduce the working day to 4 hours for real jobs and eliminate all the meme jobs + downscale the financial sector
One thing thats worked for me is I just prioritized doing what I was good at, not necessarily what I enjoyed and worked as hard as I could every day.
You don't count the digits after the decimal, anon
I wonder if things would be different if we hadn't imported 5 billion third worlders over the past 60 years
Seriously think about it
in addition, a healthy distrust of current institutions and their established pathways, edu pipeline, single job till retirement etc. will benefit you in your journey
No, I'm an incel.
I also fell for the college scam. And of course I had to be retarded enough to go on a "self improvement journey" during the 1 era of my life I was supposed to be social. During highschool and my gap year I would drink and I decided for college I would focus up and only think about classes. This led to me declining nights of hanging out and basically putting everyone off for classes in hopes that good gpa would get me good internship and job. This was mainly because parents were paying for college and I didn't want to be the asshole kid that flunks out on parents money. Well retard fucking me didn't realize 80% of landing an internship is based on networking so I basically wasted 4 years because I didn't join and clubs (until my last year when I realized I fucked up) and didn't network as much as I should have.
If you are reading this and currently in college/uni, do not fuck this up. Join ANY club literally anything and talk to your advisors. Ask that girl out before she gets a job in another state and you never see her again.
I wish you well anon, however, who is fascinated by the microbes so much that they go to college to study them?
The point of making money is so you never have to live around diversity
Did you go to Hamburger U?
[expresses doubt]
There are at least three major medical schools in the Chicago area, all with large teaching hospitals -- UIC, Northwestern, and UChicago. There's Rush-Pres-StLukes, and about a hundred other hospitals. And you can't find more than 25 jobs in the entire metropolitan area, or FFS even just within the city borders of Chicago?
After four years of getting a degree, you've got a bachelor's, you're a lab tech not a specialist researcher.
microbiology
can you share your take on COVID and the vax, please?
NEETfag here. Is 20k of debt a lot?
it wont self-sustain
the managerial elite and the infinite third-world slave class disagree
Agreed. Though everyone says this, students (self included) never listen.
JOIN CLUBS. Participate in every little event you can. Socialize. Meet as many people as you can. Get to know your professors.
The best thing college has to offer is the networking experience and socialization.
The class material itself is kind of a joke. Especially today, given that most industries drastically change every five years.
Your social and networking skills will be more important for your career anyways. The craft itself, you just need to be better than average.
no college 160k fully work from home 7 years of employement same company salary infinite dto and zero hours that are enforced, just do important things and be needed
yep you should of just been me
larp demoralization thread
change field of study
Just double down anon!
I am (was), in a similar position, STEM degree that i don't use, work a retail job that requires no qualification.
I have had this job for 4 years now. in these 4 years i have amassed a portfolio of ~$140K (mostly stocks) - which include the recent downturn. I live at home, so I can afford to invest 60-80% of my income.
Have been doing really well in terms of ROI.. but I also spend a lot of time on investing (there is a lot of free time at work, where we just wait for customers, so i just sit there and read etc.).
It's not the end of the world if you just eat the L..
Why did you get a degree in microbiology? The fuck did you think you were going to do with that?
Why is there a tiny table in the pizza
And now your BF wants a slice.
you a bitch
Microbiology is very interesting. But not a big moneymaker.
Boomer here. I got a 4 year degree in chemistry. Had no problem finding a job, but the money was bleak. As another anon said, a 4 year science degree makes you a bench tech at best. That's what I did for several years in the medical field, which paid better than any other chem gig I could find. But still not enough to build much of a life on. I kept trying to move up in the company or lateral into a different field of chemistry but no luck. And then I got laid off in a corporate merger. Decided I needed a complete retread. Took my severance package and some loans and went to law school. After that I was in the money. Made plenty of other mistakes later on, but I was always able to make decent money after that. So, no, life was not easy street for prior generations. Although things have gotten tougher, especially in the last ten.
College paid for itself the first year I got an job. I even took an extra year.
Instate tuition is great.