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submitted 1 year ago by jerebear39@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'm in my last year of college and for some reason, I decided to design my own major, and I feel like I made a mistake, I'm looking at jobs RN and feel like no employer is going to understand it at all. And that I don't really have much in demand skills? (FYI - it's a BA in community development, so kinda like urban planning but more expansive, my major Combines Social Work, Business, and Sustainability)

In y'all experience, does a college major matter much in the long run?

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[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Outside of the hard sciences where youre there to learn necessary specific foundational knowledge and technical stuff - mech/elec/civil engineering, high level medical, etc - it really doesn't. The degree is proof that you can put your head down and manage yourself well enough to survive in the white collar world.

[-] SoylentBlake@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

And the debt that degree costs will keep you beholden and subservient to the corporate overlords.

They've outsourced their own training and shouldered the costs onto teenagers.

There's a reason it's called "fuck you" money.

[-] jerebear39@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah student debt is no joke. I was fortunate enough to be in a position where I could commute and had enough student aid and scholarship to go debt free first 2 years and use savings from working part time to pay next 2 years off in (less than 6k each year). But I wish more companies would invest in proper training than push that on students and college to do (poorly imo).

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