i dont know why

because you are in demand

they pay like shit and youll get shit on

If a high school student can do it, like i did

then fuckin get the kids to do it

it was stupid easy

they can only have kids do so much without calling it a job

literally all i did was frisbee fuckin chromebooks down hallways

That's what always happens, I know people in IT who talk about how it's easy as fuck and they could train anyone off the street to do it... then I ask them for a job and they trip all over their dick

"Uh... not that easy... uh college... uh experience..."

The way the college system is structured is retarded

40ish credits of humanities didn't teach me anything useful

Thank god I had advisors that let me change around my electives. Did networking 201 and cybersecurity 1, 2 for my required electives

But the debt wasn't worth it

In the end

I've taken 3 hours of humanities for my major

The rest was all major related

Ethics was fun I guess

I'm in philosophy with a luddite professor

Arts and ideas was a waste

I took retard math for my math credit

I’m in an area where 95% of IT folks have 4 year degrees.

And I have zero college

I took math that I was never going to use in my field at all
Laplace fourier transformation

It’s hard for me to just get past the HR filters

But networking goes a long way

(Also: experience)

Companies that work with federal or state agencies are often shackled by a mandated 4 year requirement by the gov, I know that's our case here

Same here

Federal doesn't look if you don't have a ba/bs

I wish I did two year at community college and transferred over

One of our problems here was that originally our lab positions only required high school 25 years ago and there are guys with loads of experience who can't get hired because of the 2 year or 4 year requirements

Honestly experience trumps a piece of paper

A degree is basically "I may know what I'm doing, or at least I probably did when I got it"

Active work experience, and the accompanying reports, lets you see if they actively know what they're doing *right now*

It's the next best thing to cert/recert systems.

Having a degree means you've been trained to deal with hypotheticals.

Experience will always trump a degree.

I had to take an environmental economoics.... basically the Economics of not adopting "green" policies.... taught by an idiot who didn't allow electronics in the classroom and required papers to be handed in in physical form

I fucking hate luddite profs