Me, with a degree in informatics engineering working in data science for almost 3 hears on my third world country: How the fuck does an uneducated burger flipper in the US/Europe earn as much money as a congressman 😭😭😭
yeah pretty much. sometimes i feel like the only thing standing in the way of a job that could serve as an entry point into IT/software engineering is me. but i’ve tried everything and have gotten nothing but radio silence and rejections. i developed personal projects, cleaned up my linkedin page, networked with others that happened to be in the field when i worked retail, revised and revamped my resume several times over. my standards were low to begin with, now they’re below the floor. nothing’s come of it. i don’t know what the secret sauce is. i really don’t know what else there is to do besides succumb to neetdom and chronic dependence. my stupid ass applied for a master’s program too, i guess i’m hoping that things are somehow better once i’m finished with that. or so that i can keep telling myself that i’m the one in control lmao.
I’ve started working in IT over 20 years ago. In my humble opinion, one of the keys is being specialized on something that not everyone else can do. Become proficient in a certain area - devops, quality assurance, security, whatever.
On top of that, try and acquire a niche skill that makes you the type of employee that’s hard to find and replace. For example, banks are really desperate to find Cobol experts because most of those are pensioners now.
I know it’s tough, and I wish you had it as easy as I did back in the days, but it’s all I can tell you, unfortunately.
What you’re doing is the secret sauce already, you’re just missing luck. Obviously take whatever job you need to pay rent in the meantime, but if you keep it up then I think you’ll get something eventually.
It is the worst time in all of history to be a software developer looking for work, so don’t internalise it.
Go get your dick wet its easy… You might have to lower your “standards”…
Get it lower… even lower… alright, low enough to reach that American Standard.
Yet they think they are gonna be anything with that business administrator alpha delta phi dum dum degree. Would you like you hogslop on the floor or on a bed of rice with a nice glass of aged 30 year pee? Dreams yeah they got em. Dreaming dreaming away. Ai is a search engine that sucks, that is given too much credit. It is like putting the world on pause as the “leaders” contradict themselves. The clock is ticking the world is burning, airlines got insurance for when the nukes drop. Don’t worry you can still go to Disneyland.
what
Me, the janitor with nothing but a high school diploma behind corner guy:
“They probably think I’m low-key good at math.”
It’s not your fault.
Minnie Driver eyebrow waggling
This is basically my job site, we all have degrees of some kind and the customers are constantly on us about being uneducated cuz we’re in retail since coupons didn’t go the way they wanted them to.
Why would you do this to me
I haven’t seen couples dancing like that in awhile.
Yeah that’s like how I dance with my cat lol
Me with a degree in wildlife conservation!
Yet finding work is almost fucking impossible and dealing with the bureaucracy of job hunting is so overwhelming, my unmedicated AuDHD ass cannot keep up.
Yeah, I loved graduating with an environmental degree, and the only relevent jobs being hours away.
I expected a lot of travel for the career, I just was naive in expecting that travel to be reimbursed as it’s a condition of the job. Nope, gotta foot the bill yourself.
I have passion for this career in conservation but, unfortunately, I also have to be able to afford the cost of living.
Yeah, that’s what I mean. To work anywhere in my field, I’ll need to pack up and move, finding an apartment on my own and still taking care of myself, while on a salary that’s not particularly great.
Been feeling this way doing rideshare the past couple of weeks. So many college kids and their wealthy parents going out partying and me with my degree and years of experience driving the cab.
The roasting I got the one time I put the box in front of the wrong house and the lady was there to see it.
I know what electrons do in transistorsOh man, i would fukken EXPLODE. I haven’t had to do this yet (knock on wood) but i stg if anyone’s ever rude to me in my own car I’m kicking their ass out, don’t care where or when or how much money their ride’s worth.
Vibe coding you mean
Few years earlier it would’ve been a humanities degree, welcome to the club “learn to code” bros
I need that emoji on my phone keyboard that’s super cute
LOL, this meme has two layers, as they say “real sciences don’t need “science” suffix in the name”
Computer science and programming are two different things. Computer science started as a branch of mathematics, looking into calculability: what problems can a computer even solve. I had a course on algorithms by a professor that had never programmed a line of code in his life, everything he did was in pseudocode.
Computer degree
They really love to have it both ways. ‘Oh, I’m a scientist, not some antiintellectual engineer’ and ‘Here’s why I’m an engineer even without a license, I’m not some poor lab rat academic’
I went to school for Rocket
Can you actually get a degree in rocket science? I feel like the closest would be aerospace engineering.
Rocket surgery?
Rocket appliances
Possibly the best rendition of this meme I’ve seen, shut it down
Haha! Funny meme, with no real world connection!
Found the computer-science major.
