Gripe of the Day page 432

[Maureen M]

Naiad,
I feel ya. I got my degree in English so I knew the pickins were slim....but civil engineering...i feel like they tell us to major in something useful, so we'll be able to find steady jobs, then when we do, all the stable jobs are gone and people are like "what you didn't know that this is the shittiest year for *suchandsuchjobs*?" You expected that degree to pay for itself?? Well you're worthless and full of this imaginary sense of entitlement. Go get a job you jobless hunk of flesh and stop living on the taxpayers dime"

This world we live in, sometimes it is teh suck.

[Gay Panda]

I regret ever going to college.

[kenn]

Kenn, this has got to be the best thing you've ever said (but, of course, I have a small sample size)!

You should read my posts more, thars gold in d'em posts!

[texas.grok]

I was waiting for my wife outside a store yesterday when a fat couple, in their 30s/40s came out, got into their car in the handicapped spot, pulled out and, I shit you not, pulled no more than 100 feet down into another handicapped spot to go into Subway. Really?

[naiadknight]

I don't have my PE, I'm only an EIT. I've been trying to crossover to other lines of work. No go. I'm over educated, and underexperienced.
I realize that wanting a job may be a sense of entitlement. I don't want the world to wait on me hand and foot. Matter of fact, I hate that idea; it brings to mind spoiled rich kids that feel the world owes them something because of who Daddy is. I just want a chance to work for a living and keep the damn job.
Quelsen- I've tried changing what my definition of work is. It doesn't hafta use my degree, if I can follow another passion. I've tried answering "can you" with "yes." That was how I got with the enviro firm. I've tried looking outside my area of expertise. They want experience or 60 hr weeks.

[kenn]

Naiad, time to setup your own shop and do work as an independent contractor/find your own clients?

[Saoirse]

she can't; she's an EIT. afaik, she HAS to work under the authority of a licensed engineer. naiad, it's a short-term thing, right? you have to work "X" number of years, then apply for the state license, then you can work for yourself?

[kenn]

she can't; she's an EIT. afaik, she HAS to work under the authority of a licensed engineer. naiad, it's a short-term thing, right? you have to work "X" number of years, then apply for the state license, then you can work for yourself?

Hmm, if so maybe she can find someone that does what I described and work out a deal? I have no idea how this works.

[namelesswonder]

Naiad,
I feel ya. I got my degree in English so I knew the pickins were slim....but civil engineering...i feel like they tell us to major in something useful, so we'll be able to find steady jobs, then when we do, all the stable jobs are gone and people are like "what you didn't know that this is the shittiest year for *suchandsuchjobs*?" You expected that degree to pay for itself?? Well you're worthless and full of this imaginary sense of entitlement. Go get a job you jobless hunk of flesh and stop living on the taxpayers dime"

This world we live in, sometimes it is teh suck.

I was an English major, but I did IT work at my school and went into the IT field after graduating. I wasn't really thinking about how my degree would be useful, it was more about the "Look! I have dedication! I suffered through 4 yrs of liberal arts education!" for my resume than anything else. I doubt I'll ever use my degree directly in my work, and I'm really not interested in doing so. Reading and writing is just what interested me most at the time, though if I could go back, I would've shoved myself into the Computer Science program.

[drssgchic]

I was an English major, but I did IT work at my school and went into the IT field after graduating. I wasn't really thinking about how my degree would be useful, it was more about the "Look! I have dedication! I suffered through 4 yrs of liberal arts education!" for my resume than anything else. I doubt I'll ever use my degree directly in my work, and I'm really not interested in doing so. Reading and writing is just what interested me most at the time, though if I could go back, I would've shoved myself into the Computer Science program.

Mom didn't care what I studied. I just had to go to college and get a degree to have the piece of paper for just that- I am trainable and dedicated. I studied horses and learned that I'd never make it in that field so I had to get a "real job." I hate my real job and I'm now interested in the whole Tim Ferriss idea of getting into things that you don't have any "qualifications" for- but you'd be good at anyway. I'm not qualified for much of anything- certainly nothing that interests me- but I'm discovering that there are quite a few things that I'm good at anyway.

I don't know that it would work for you NaiadKnight- I expect engineering is pretty picky about real qualifications- but maybe it might help someone else to think about?