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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (19 children)

Everyone's experience is different, and things ARE absolutely more difficult in recent decades than many decades ago.

That said, I remember around the time I was graduating and how it felt like the vast majority of everyone I knew was baffled by my willingness to move far away (for the job), and how many of them refused to move away from home (where there weren't many job options for degrees).

There's also choices to make to do projects or a thesis around real productive ideas to build something to show off to employers. There's opportunities to practice interviewing, shadow careers, and make yourself presentable and stand out for your field, and again I just remember very few who actually put in the effort and wanted to appear well-rounded amd with a portfolio of sorts to distinguish themselves. Most of my classmates seemed to just want to check boxes and expect a career to happen.

Some people in my personal experience seem unwilling to do what's necessary to make their degree worthwhile.

Yeah you may be able to get [insert degree] at [random local college], but a lot of the good careers are not going to be where you got the degree, amd you really have to find ways to convince employers why you're different.

Then on top of all of that, there's just some luck as well. And I know in some ways I also just got lucky in landing a job.

Meanwhile, ever since I moved and started a career, I have been surrounded by incredible degree-wielding people from all over the world. So clearly lots of people do find success and they are doing great jobs.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

Great jobs? Doing what? Licking boots?

Uprooting your entire life, saying goodbye to all of your friends, family, community, home, all for the pursuit of some dollars, that's insanity. Only in a sick world where money is our master is that viewed otherwise.

Uprooting for adventure is one thing, uprooting for work is not the same.

Your comment sounds like some AI generated LinkedIn status and it makes me feel sick.

[–] Spookyghost 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Boot licking is chosing to stay home and making a pittance at one of the few dead end jobs available when the outward move could have been expontially better and resulted in you moving back with your family, with more resources, later on when possible.

You're basically judging / telling people to get stuck because in your ideal world they wouldnt have had to.

In case you haven't noticed, this ain't that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm judging/telling people what to do?

Did you not read the post I responded to?

Most of my classmates seemed to just want to check boxes and expect a career to happen.

Some people in my personal experience seem unwilling to do what’s necessary to make their degree worthwhile.

you really have to find ways to convince employers why you’re different.

I said in a sick world where money is our master would moving in the pursuit of dollars be insanity. Moving for other reasons is not what this post is about. So what do you think I was implying by that? It is normal, sometimes even necessary, for people to do this, what do you think I'm trying to say about the world?

Boot licking is chasing the shareholders/masters in the hope that they'll treat you right and give you a few more dollars per hour than you would working in your home town. A few more dollars than your peers. Boot licking is defending this sick fucking system that we live under where Trumps, Zuckerbergs, and Musks rule the world because money is our master.

[–] Spookyghost 2 points 3 weeks ago

Far as I can tell you're not really making any point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Seeing more of your responses, it is clear you spend too much time online in anti-capitalist groups and expect people to just magically accomplish your ideals.

Good luck to you and your bitterness. The rest of us have actual lives to live and bills to pay. It's not as binary as you see it.

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